More support for the troops
Q and O blog
Posted by: McQ on Monday, November 21, 2005
Seattle, Washington ... love to visit, but based on this story I'd hate to live there:
qando.net
When military recruiters march into any Seattle high school, they could find themselves in a war of words. Under new district guidelines, schools must allow anti-military groups to "counter-recruit" right next to them
"There might be good reasons to die for things, but there's no good reason to kill for anything," said Amy Hagopian, the mother of a senior at Garfield High School and the co-chairwoman of the PTSA, which passed a resolution seeking to ban the military from all Seattle schools.
Before the school board could act on the request, she berated an Army recruiter who showed up at Garfield High, told the soldier he was not welcome and waved pictures of Iraq war casualties in his face.
That incident followed a confrontation at a Seattle community college, where war protesters chased a recruiter off campus.
"It's something we have to deal with out here as recruiters because there's a lot of teachers and people in Seattle that just don't like the military being in the schools," said Sgt. James Ramsey, an Army recruiter in the area.
"There might be good reasons to die for things, but there's no good reason to kill for anything."
You know, I don't believe I've ever seen a more ignorant statement in my life, and I've heard quite a few over my lifetime. That's just downright rhetorical nonsense.
You ought to go to the story and watch the video of this woman saying this. The smugness of her ignorance is equally incredible. And being a mother, she's just told her child she'd never do the what might be necessary to save her child's life since there's "no good reason (her child's life)" to do so.
Anyway, just as wacky is the Seattle ruling that military recruiters must put up with peace recruiters when they visit schools.
Seattle ... where old hippies go to die. Would it be terrible to hope the process would hurry itself along a little bit? Maybe a bad batch of mushrooms or something? |
