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War Resisters Protest Army Recruiters at Career Fair
Corsair ^
| May 18, 2005
| Gathering Marbet
Posted on 05/24/2005 9:32:58 AM PDT by MensRightsActivist
Santa Monica College's Career Island became a target for anti-war demonstrators when the military showed up as equal opportunity employers.
"What they ended up doing was turning it into their show, and then some employers didn't get to hire or interview people," said Vicki Rothman, career center faculty leader. "They have a right to free speech, I agree, but legally the Army, the Navy, and whoever else, also has the right to be here. And sure, the students have a right to protest, but they did it in a way that shows the college, the community, and their fellow students that they didn't care about them. And it basically shut the job fair down - and we had really, really good employers this year."
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KEYWORDS: antiamericanleft; commiesoncampus; recruiters
I worked at this liberal westside college for 16 years and can tell you that it is the liberal members of the faculty (which is most, but not all, of the faculty) who indoctrinate students with their prejudices, and instigate these events. How many of our G.I.'s have these liberal pinko's contributed to killing this time?
To: MensRightsActivist
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posted on
05/24/2005 9:49:33 AM PDT
by
68skylark
To: MensRightsActivist
Pretty much the condition of all public schools from kindergarten through grad school...
My nephews have carried their conservative values into their
high school civics and govt classes..and its the teachers
who urge the other students to vehemently critisize conservative points of view..
There is no value free education and free discourse is NOT
encouraged..only the socialist liberal party line is allowed
and it is considered the ONLY truth and the only reality.
Conservativism is treated as pathological...
imo
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posted on
05/24/2005 9:50:28 AM PDT
by
joesnuffy
(The generation that survived the depression and won WW2 proved poverty does not cause crime)
To: MensRightsActivist
Marcial Guerra, SMC student, protestor, and member of the Coalition in Solidarity With Cuba [said] "When you have hundreds of people dying every day from an evil war that the government is conducting in the name of the U.S., when you have people's lives at stake, you can't ignore that." Guerra maintains that protestors had nothing against the job fair itself, but would not stand by and watch the military offer jobs that "we do not think are acceptable for students, or for anyone, to have." What a little tyrant! She emulates her friends in the Cuban government -- telling other Americans what jobs they can and can't have.
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posted on
05/24/2005 9:52:28 AM PDT
by
68skylark
To: 68skylark
Well if these liberal schools don't want recruiters to come in and offer jobs and career opportunities to their peers then I guess we should just draft them, either way there will be a military.
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posted on
05/24/2005 10:08:55 AM PDT
by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: Americanexpat
I'd prefer to go to war short-handed than go with unwilling draftees. If someone doesn't want to be in the military, I don't want them anywhere near. With really good troops, quantity is not relevent -- quality is about all that matters.
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posted on
05/24/2005 10:18:36 AM PDT
by
68skylark
To: 68skylark
I will agree with you about draftees. The point I was trying to make is that if schools and universities win this Supreme Court case and can ban the military from campuses then we will have to resort to the draft. We have too much going on in the world to let the numbers in the military slip too far.
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posted on
05/24/2005 10:34:46 AM PDT
by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: Americanexpat
I respectfully disagree -- I can say with confidence that there isn't going to be a draft in this country, no matter what, not ever.
Back in the 1980's we had an all-volunteer military that was two to three times bigger than we have today. We can go back to that size military on an all-volunteer basis any time we want to. We simply don't want to -- we have far higher standards today (something the MSM doesn't report on, because it doesn't fit their image a soldiers as knuckle-dragging dunces), and the high standards are more important than quantity. A draft army is the ultimate high-quantity approach, and it's the opposite of everything we believe today about how to have the most effective, lethal military.
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posted on
05/24/2005 11:42:26 AM PDT
by
68skylark
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