Posted on 03/15/2006 6:48:49 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Turning up on a Pentagon surveillance list has become a badge of honor for members of a student anti-war organization at UC Santa Cruz -- and made them a national face of the peace movement.
..........It was an April 5 counter-recruiting demonstration at Santa Cruz that led to Students Against War's national notoriety.
About a dozen protesters entered a career fair in a campus building and surrounded a table where military recruiters sat, preventing other students from talking with them. More than 300 people demonstrated outside. In the jostling that ensued, a career-center staffer was slightly injured.
The recruiters left; some found their tires slashed when they returned to their cars. No one has been cited in connection with the vandalism.
In December, MSNBC reported that the incident and a separate protest by a UC Berkeley group had turned up on a Defense Department database of potential threats against U.S. military facilities and personnel. The Santa Cruz incident was listed as a credible threat, while the Berkeley one was not.
Since the story broke, the American Civil Liberties Union, California's two U.S. senators and UC Santa Cruz's chancellor have demanded that the Pentagon explain how the students landed on the list and what the military is doing with the information.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
CrunchyCruz PING
I think Santa Cruz' chancellor ought to be trying to find out who slashed the tires of the recruiters.
Lib groups seem to like tire slashing.
Yeah...they should feel real proud. /extreme sarcasm
Only difference is, there are more fruits in San Fransico.
Next time SF gets hit by a major earthquake, RED STATERS and Patriots in Blue States withhold your donations. Pentagon troops take your time. Let the traitors get their payback.
Banana slugs are slimy and ugly. The UC Santa Cruz campus is like a terrorist training ground, one of the most anti-American places on earth.
That they're on a list bothers me not. That they're not in jail bothers me a lot.
Yes, they are traitors, and they started this insult of America.
However; we should help them because it is the right thing to do. We should not base our actions on those of spoiled children.
The libs in Santa Cruz make San Francisco seem like Topeka.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.