Posted on 02/21/2003 10:42:39 AM PST by Angelwood
Several hundred DC area high school students skipped school (after all these snow days) to hold an "anti-war" demonsatration at DuPont Circle in Washington, D.C.
The rally is well-attended by the media. There is a small sound system in use; the student speakers are all repeating the marxist indoctrination slogans. There is a sign calling them "D.C. Area Students for Peace."
The speakers are calling for more money for education -- their education. As an aside, D.C. and Montgomery County school systems are two of the best funded educations systems in the country with an average cost of about $9,000 of our tax dollars per student (about the poverty level income of a single person with no dependents).
They have the usual signs: "Drop Bush Not Bombs," "Have Another Pretzel, President Bush," Wilso Students Against the War in Iraq - Books Not Bombs."
And chants:
DROP BUSH NOT BOMBS
1, 2, 3, 4 = STOP BUSH'S OIL WAR
5, 6, 7, 8 = PLEASE FOR PEACE ABOLISH HATE
What Do We Want? PEACE
When Do We Want It? NOW
BEAT BACK THE BUSH ATTACK
The media (including CNN and Washington Post reporter) seem to be eating up this "spontaneous" rally. Look for it on CNN and local TV tonight.
This is digusting. They are calling for the death of the President. If I ever saw anyone holding this sign I would have to be restrained from beating them unconscious.
America is watching and listening. These demonstrators can't be glorified by an approving media who loves reporting on the conflict more than they worry about the harm their reporting might do to our country.
Oh feeble one, rules are not made to be obeyed but broken, or why do you think there would be a rule? Tune-in, turn-on, drop-out.
As proof of your patriotism, why don't you soak yourself with gasoline and light a match to display your loyalty? same difference I guess.
Last I heard they were getting wasted with the CIA agents, both inquired about your whereabouts though.
I would suspect that they were marked present for the whole day so that the school would get the money. Someone needs to demand an audit to verify that the school officials were not committing fraud.
The little darlings have also voted this:
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This is a well-financed campaign in Europe, but it is only getting started in America.
It's a nearly unverifiable crime.
A person or group would have to collect evidence (photos or video) supporting the assertion that school-age kids were in the rent-a-mob protesting around the White House on a school day. The students would have to be ID'd and matched to DC school attendance rosters for the affected schools. Without this type of evidence or a pile personal statement, there's no way to prove that the teachers and other education officials were commiting fraud.
In addition, there will be a contingent of useful idiots in the school system, the media and local politics that will hamper these effort and argue that the investigation will consume more money than what was lost by the student's truancy.
From the 60s to the present, civil disobediance by college students has evolved into the "perfect crime". I can say this because during a rally, student protestors are "stealing" countless credit hours of tuition that are paid for by their parents, Alumni-backed scholarships and Federal student loans. The protestors know we're the suckers. Now they're applying the same tactics on the High School and Middle School level.
Now keep this day in mind whenever student loan amnesty ever comes up in a conversation.
For an average class size of 20 students per class room, this works out to be 180,000 per class room. If the teacher gets 70k and the rent on the room is 24k (2,000 per month which normally would be the rent on a small house.) that still leaves about 80k for "overhead". It's time to privatize I think.
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