Wow! I can I get a Gold Brick job like this?
Posted on 08/19/2005 10:23:20 AM PDT by Austin_snoop
Nationwide STUDENT STRIKE!!!
Reply-To: codepinkaustin@yahoogroups.com
START SPREADING THE WORD!!!!! UT
CodePink will have a great campaign to jump in on as they get started!---Backed by Noam Chomsky and more than 100 other professors so far... [a fabulous guy in OR, Brian D. Bogart, has called] for a student strike on Sept. 26.....nicely coordinated with the D.C. action so students can have more leeway to BE in DC that weekend.
The brainchild of this effort puts this in line with Cindy's efforts, but seeks to begin to transfer the focus "from Texas to the nation's 300-plus Pentagon-dependent universities." (see bottom--and I'm sure he isn't trying to "transfer the focus" away from the military families so much as start to give all these new people coming 'out' into the movement a target to focus their loss and anger on, besides Bush)
GET THIS OUT TO UTCHANNELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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September 26, 2005President George W. Bush, The White House Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Department of Defense, The Pentagon President Nils Hasselmo, Association of American Universities Governor Ted Kulongoski, State of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer, University of Oregon
Dear Public Servants,
As University of Oregon’s first graduate student in the field of Peace Studies, it is my responsibility to explore the role of the military in society and those conditions that most promote peace and human welfare. In so doing, I have come to understand the nature of America’s war industry, and how that industry has flourished in the wake of the Cold War.
I have come to find that more than 300 of our universities are developing weapons for the Department of Defense, and that these schools are increasingly reliant on the industry of war to sustain their education programs. Indeed, the Association of American Universities appears to be little more than a lobby for such funding.
As a person of good conscience, I have learned too much about the business of war to remain silent about its overwhelming encroachment in our schools, communities, and global life systems. In promoting this encroachment, I do not believe that you serve in the interest of prosperity and security for the common people. By your consistent actions, in fact, it is abundantly clear that you believe America’s top priority is profit from the business of war, not the general welfare of its people.
When America was born a people-first country, the concept of freedom spread rapidly throughout the world without military force. The vision of our Founders was to advance the notion of people living in peace using the freedom that nature provides upon birth.
You may feel at peace with yourselves, but I believe you are acting as businessmen instead of servants. And in honoring our Founding principles, I must proclaim that to exploit the fears and prejudices of the common people to maintain the flow of profits from conflict—to perpetuate a state of war for personal gain—is treasonous to our creed.
You say this is a peace-loving nation when you know it is not; America is by far history’s greatest peddler of arms, and your business is making war everyone else’s business. The people, under this set of priorities, are an expendable resource, and on behalf of those who founded this country and those whose lives stand in peril today—thus, on behalf of all-Americans—I reject the notion of our servants serving only themselves and war profiteers.
Therefore, I feel compelled to strike in peaceful but vociferous opposition to your priorities until our national policies reflect our priorities and serve the rights and needs of the common people. I am a dedicated scholar and University of Oregon alumnus. But I refuse to study inside the classroom of any school that sells itself to the war industry, and I will stand outside and speak my heart as strongly as possible to highlight the obvious hypocrisy that you promote. For I fear that if I donor, America and other countries are very likely to suffer and fall as a result of your cold determination to saturate with weapons a world that stands on the verge of resource depletion.
Developing weapons at our institutions of enlightenment contradicts the inherent purpose of learning. How will we ever learn peace while making war in our schools? I hereby submit to you this petition for peaceful priorities.
Dutifully, Brian D. Bogart bbogart@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Multicultural Studies Certificate, US-Japan Relations,
Lewis and Clark College, Portland 1995
International Studies Certificate, Waseda University, Tokyo 1996
B.A. Japanese History, University of Oregon 1997
M.A. Candidate, Peace Studies, University of Oregon
Sponsors of this action include:
Noam Chomsky Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Franklin W. Stahl Professor Emeritus of Biology University of Oregon
Peter Phillips Ph.D. Sociology Department/Project Censored Sonoma State University
(names removed for space)
Strike A Match for Cindy Sheehan
America Programmed for War: Cause and Solution "What one generation perceives as repression, the next accepts as a necessary part of a complex daily life. "
By Brian Bogart
A single policy decision made in secluded chambers of the White House shortly after World War II explains why our financial and intellectual creativity focuses on lethal technologies, why 51% of our taxes go to defense and less than 5% to education, why there are6000 military bases in the United States and 1000 US bases overseas, why comprehensive agendas support war fighting and weak agendas address human services and the environment, and why our top industry since1950 remains the manufacture and sale of weapons.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9831.htm
I'd like to see these academic pansies try publishing a letter like this in Saudi Arabia or Syria or Russia or China. Geez.
Can it be that the only evil these ninkcompoops see is the United States of America? How is this possible? How can these people be so wrongheaded about fighting for freedom from tyranny?
Any "student" whose parents will pay for him to skip school (college, I assume) and go to D.C. to "protest" deserves to have said "student" living at home rent-free for the rest of their natural lives.
What a bunch of dweebs.
Signed up today to share this with us several times, eh?
Wow! I can I get a Gold Brick job like this?
We spend more on entitlements in this country than anything else!
Let's just say, I am a conservative living in Satan's Den, Austin, TX, where the liberals make me want to puke. I'm also a life-long Razorbacker, but don't hold that against me because I'm and Army brat (and a Navy vet) who lived in Arkansas when I was a young, impressionable child in 1964 when the mighty Hogs went undefeated.
Wow! How can I get a Gold Brick job like this?
Hmmm...The horned frogs are the mascot of TCU. I thought you'd know the UT mascot, living in Austin. Do you?
'Sixties re-enactors.
And not doing a good job of it.
I just figured you were a French Longhorn fan! Hee Hee Hee!!! Keep your eyes peeled around the streets of Austin, you'll probably know when you see my truck. Am on the phone with "gracey" right now; she's giving me advice.
Hey, check your FReepmail.
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