Re: Watch Out Fathers: The US Military Is Seeking Your Progeny For Future WAR Fodder NOW! US MILITARY GOES TO KINDERGARTEN!
Dr Ernie a 69er
the big whoop. Ernie
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> 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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>> "Dr Ernie a 69er" <69T...@pluckery.com> related
>> news:he25v9$l8j$2...@news.eternal-september.org:
>>
>> Basically, the boy scouts condition for future soldiering, too. So
>> what's
>> the big whoop. Ernie
>
> I would think!
I'm not sure that there is any basis for what you would think.
After all, many parents commonly send their children to sunday schools,
church groups, scouts, etc., all of which indoctrinate children.
My Name
> "My Name" <n...@e-mail.com.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns9CC7BFEB2...@walks.like.a.duck...
>>> "Dr Ernie a 69er" <69T...@pluckery.com> related news:he25v9$l8j$2...@news.eternal-september.org:
>>>
>>> Basically, the boy scouts condition for future soldiering, too. So
>>> what's the big whoop.
>>
>> I would think!
>
> I'm not sure that there is any basis for what you would think.
I: AM!
> After all, many parents commonly send their children to sunday schools,
> church groups, scouts, etc., all of which indoctrinate children.
So: WHAT?
Parents shouldn't KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AT "PUBLIC SCHOOL", HMM, punk-kin?
So here it is again, punk-kin. YOUR WELCOME!
Patrick Keenan
>> "Patrick Keenan" <te...@dev.null> related
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>> "My Name" <n...@e-mail.com.invalid> wrote in message
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>>>> "Dr Ernie a 69er" <69T...@pluckery.com> related
>>>> news:he25v9$l8j$2...@news.eternal-september.org:
>>>>
>>>> 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?