Profiles in Liberal Tolerance
I'm sure this is another posting topic that will enjoy several sequels. As I reported on the San Francisco City Council banning JROTC from the city's high schools, similar sentiments are visiting us here in Dixie. The News & Observer of Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill reports here: http://www.newsobserver.com/722/story/510469.html about a new Army Recruiting Office in Chapel Hill. The Town Council of Chapel Hill passed a resolution calling for all American soldiers to be withdrawn from Iraq, which I am sure was more important than the matters of the town budget, policies on pedestrian traffic, and where the new traffic lights should be built.
Now, pacifists are organizing a march to protest the construction of the recruiting office. The News & Observer quotes one of the leaders thus:
"We really tie the construction of this facility [the recruiting office] to the war in Iraq and the difficulties that the military is having recruiting youth and students," said Ben Carroll, who is involved with UNC-CH Students for a Democratic Society, one of the march's organizers. "We are not just saying we don't want military recruiters in Chapel Hill," Carroll said. "We don't want them in our schools and targeting our youth."
I'm sure your reaction was the same as mine: STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY?!?!! Yes, I had also thought that this Vietnam-era cover organization for communists no longer existed. Once again, we see that today's anti-war movement is largely a reenactment for the aging flower children of this country. As a veteran, I resent their portrayal of us as children being targeted for military service. Many of us love our country and want to serve in the defense of the society that gave us birth. Love for country is a motive so foreign from them that they assume we cannot possibly hold it sincerely. How pitiable.
Now, pacifists are organizing a march to protest the construction of the recruiting office. The News & Observer quotes one of the leaders thus:
"We really tie the construction of this facility [the recruiting office] to the war in Iraq and the difficulties that the military is having recruiting youth and students," said Ben Carroll, who is involved with UNC-CH Students for a Democratic Society, one of the march's organizers. "We are not just saying we don't want military recruiters in Chapel Hill," Carroll said. "We don't want them in our schools and targeting our youth."
I'm sure your reaction was the same as mine: STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY?!?!! Yes, I had also thought that this Vietnam-era cover organization for communists no longer existed. Once again, we see that today's anti-war movement is largely a reenactment for the aging flower children of this country. As a veteran, I resent their portrayal of us as children being targeted for military service. Many of us love our country and want to serve in the defense of the society that gave us birth. Love for country is a motive so foreign from them that they assume we cannot possibly hold it sincerely. How pitiable.
posted by Bountyhawk at 11:39 AM
1 Comments:
I find it kind of laughable, though, that while the remnants of the 60s hippie/"flower child" movement exist, they're running on fumes. My town is a liberal one, and much liberal sentiment exists on campus too---but any kind of war protest amounts to about six people holding signs who call off the protest if there's a slight bit of rain.
Our city government has acted similarly to Raleigh---protesting the Iraq war while ignoring municipal problems. I can't wait for the April election when we can vote them out!
(I don't know if your wife knows that I care this much about politics. :-) My own wife has definitely spurred me to be a more active citizen!)
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