Re: Watch Out Fathers: The US Military Is Seeking Your Progeny For Future WAR Fodder NOW! US MILITARY GOES TO KINDERGARTEN!
Patrick Keenan
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>> Basically, the boy scouts condition for future soldiering, too. So
>> what's
>> the big whoop. Ernie
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> Most parents would prefer that no other indoctrinate their children,
> I would think!
I'm not sure that there is any basis for what you would think.
After all, many parents commonly send their children to sunday schools,
church groups, scouts, etc., all of which indoctrinate children.
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>>> "Dr Ernie a 69er" <69T...@pluckery.com> related news:he25v9$l8j$2...@news.eternal-september.org:
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>>> Basically, the boy scouts condition for future soldiering, too. So
>>> what's the big whoop.
>>
>> I would think!
>
> I'm not sure that there is any basis for what you would think.
I: AM!
> After all, many parents commonly send their children to sunday schools,
> church groups, scouts, etc., all of which indoctrinate children.
So: WHAT?
Parents shouldn't KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AT "PUBLIC SCHOOL", HMM, punk-kin?
So here it is again, punk-kin. YOUR WELCOME!
Lowering the Bar: Kindergarten Recruitment
Tuesday 17 November 2009
by: Jon Letman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
(Image: Jon Letman)
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How old is old enough for students to be approached by
military recruiters?
High school? Junior high? Fourth grade? How about ten weeks
into kindergarten?
Last week at the dinner table, my five-year-old son
announced blithely, "Soldiers came to school today." He then
added, "They only kill bad people. They don't kill good
people."
He made the announcement with the same levity he uses in
recalling the plot line of Frog and Toad or a Nemo video.
My wife and I looked at each other incredulously.
"Soldiers came to school? What do you mean?" I asked.
He repeated himself and then I remembered - it was "Career
Day" at school. My son mentioned a bus driver too, but it
was the soldier who stuck out in his mind. When my wife
asked if the soldier was cool, he nodded yes.
The soldier had given my five-year-old a gift. From his
yellow backpack, he produced a six-inch, white, plastic
ruler with big, bold, red letters reading "ARMY NATIONAL
GUARD" next to a waving American flag and below that www.1-
800-GO-GUARD.com.
So, now we know the answer to the above question.
Kindergarteners - children with Dora the Explorer and
Spiderman backpacks and bedrooms full of stuffed animals who
are still working to master their A-B-C's - are now targets
for early conditioning by the US military. Never mind that
Hawaii's schools have just cut almost 10 percent of
classroom time, dropping the state's public schools'
instructional days down to the fewest in the nation. Teacher
furloughs or not, time was found for the Army National Guard
to give a pitch (and a gift) to wide-eyed five-year-olds.
Fortunately (from the military's perspective), the economic
collapse has been a boon for military recruiters as
education and job-hungry young people flock to a place they
know will offer what many other employers cannot - a job
with benefits.
And with Department of Defense projections indicating that
the baseline Pentagon budget will grow over the next decade
by $133.1 billion, or 25 percent (even before war funding),
it appears likely there will be plenty need for more
soldiers in 2022 when my son and his classmates turn 18.
In his book "The Limits of Power," Boston University history
Professor and retired Army Col. Andrew J. Bacevich describes
a near future in which the US is in an almost constant state
of war. He writes, "Rather than brief interventions ending
in decisive victory, sustained presence will be the norm ...
The future will be one of small wars, expected to be
frequent, protracted, perhaps perpetual." If Bacevich's
bleak assessment proves true, it's no wonder the National
Guard sees value in chatting up kindergarteners.
After raising my concerns about military personnel pitching
to my five-year-old on career day to the school's principal,
I was told the soldiers (who were dressed in uniform) were
there to focus on "the good things they do." To be sure, in
times of natural disaster, the National Guard can do a
tremendous amount of good.
But in what must certainly have been a first encounter for
my son and his classmates, the take-away message was "they
kill people. But only the bad ones."
As a parent, how does one explain what killing "only bad
ones" means when the child asks why a NATO airstrike
obliterated dozens of civilians, an unmanned drone flattened
a mountain village killing children just like them or a
deeply disturbed soldier goes on a rampage on a US base in
Iraq or in Texas , and projects the violence he has learned
against his fellow soldiers?
Whether you find the Army National Guard visiting
kindergarteners utterly disturbing or perfectly normal, each
of us needs to ask ourselves, in an era when our government
spends trillions of dollars supporting wars with no end in
sight, at a time when we can't even fund our schools or
public services at a minimum standard and only begrudgingly
support health care reform, what kind of society and future
are we building for our children?
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Patrick Keenan
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>>>> Basically, the boy scouts condition for future soldiering, too. So
>>>> what's the big whoop.
>>>
>>> Most parents would prefer that no other indoctrinate their children,
>>> I would think!
>>
>> I'm not sure that there is any basis for what you would think.
>
> I: AM!
>
>> After all, many parents commonly send their children to sunday schools,
>> church groups, scouts, etc., all of which indoctrinate children.
>
> So: WHAT?
So, these parents are preferring that others indoctrinate their children.
Do you even read what you write?