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Barry Marjanovich

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Mar 31, 2003, 10:42:48 AM3/31/03

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The Globe and Mail

A rodeo in the heart of Texas is prime recruitment territory for the
U.S. Marine Corps

Monday, March 31, 2003

AUSTIN, TEX. -- They come, bare-armed in bitter weather, to prove
they've got what it takes.

The young men strip down, girlfriends often holding their heavy jackets,
and, one by one, leap up and seize the iron bar that stands in front of
the huge "marine" balloon that is held down by sandbags and wobbles,
punch-drunk, in the gusting winds that pound the 66th annual Star of
Texas Fair & Rodeo.

Twenty chin-ups and they win a simple black T-shirt, its white letters
spelling out "Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body."

There is pain here in front of the livestock barn, and more weakness
perhaps than a budding love affair can endure, but the odd muscular
young man reaches his goal -- "17 . . . 18 . . . 19 . . . Twen-ty! " a
group of uniformed marines shouts out -- and soon heads off down toward
the midway proudly wearing his new shirt, his heavy jacket in one aching
arm, his girl hanging off the other.

The real winner here is Gunnery Sergeant Manuel Aderette, a 30-year-old
full-time recruiter for the Marine Corps and himself a veteran of the
Persian Gulf war.

The young men have what they want, the free shirt, and Aderette has what
he needs: their name and address on a form. Soon they will receive a
letter from the Marine Corps asking if they'd like to talk about joining
up.

This is prime recruitment territory, a Bible Belt running down through
the heart of Texas where so many young men and women are always keen to
join the armed forces and, in times of war, seem even more determined to
do their part.

"I wish I could be there myself," Aderette says. "But I'm doing my job;
I'm putting quality people into the Marines."

Last year, he figures he personally signed up 90 recruits. This year,
the way things are going, he may well exceed that count.

"We've been doing pretty good," he says. "Austin is a great area to work
out of. A great many people here believe in doing what's right for your
country."

Austin itself, with its large university population, has been the main
centre for the small antiwar protests that have so far been staged
around Texas, but the surrounding countryside is profoundly different
from the city core.

Here at the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo, a far different State of Texas
exists: toddlers in spurs, boys wearing gleaming belt buckles, men and
women with American flag jackets and young girls getting patriotic, if
temporary, tattoos at the Sticker Spot.

Over at the Youth Auction at the back of the livestock barn, cakes are
going for as much as $575, the money specifically earmarked for the
winning entrant's education.

Fifteen-year-old Evan Phillips of Round Rock is No. 74 on the auction
sheet. He won the Grand Champion ribbon for a charcoal drawing of Robert
E. Lee, the legendary southern general in the Civil War who is a folk
hero in Texas.

What attracted Phillips to Lee was the fact that Lee was considered
"such an honourable man -- and a Christian. A very strong Christian. I'm
one, too, I'm proud to say."

"We got any Confederates in here? " the big, barking auctioneer shouts.

The barn erupts in cheers.

The drawing goes for $300. Combined with what he won last year -- $500
for a drawing of the D-Day invasion, $300 for a pencil drawing of a wood
duck -- he now has $1,100 put away toward his education. Both
home-schooled as well as "home-churched," young Phillips hopes to be an
artist, or a computer programmer.

But, if necessary, he would drop all plans to do what must be done.

"I can understand us going," he says through braces. "It's sad that a
man would willingly take lives just to be in control of somebody else.
It's wrong."

Chad Holz, 18, is the Maynard, Tex., chapter president of the National
Honor Society; the backup lighting system he designed for pickups
brought in $500 at the auction. He can use the money. He's headed for
the University of Texas to study engineering.

Holz appreciates the values of small towns and 4-H and the church. The
Youth Auction, he says, is a perfect example of those standards.

"It teaches discipline; you can't leave everything to the last minute."

He's already signed up for the draft, if America should decide to return
to a draft system, and he says he'd go immediately if called.

"If I go," he says, "I'm fighting for my country. And I'm fighting for
the people who come after me.

"Texans are very patriotic, and we fight for what we believe in."

Outside, Sergeant Aderette is filling out forms as quickly as the young
men can reach for the bar.

"The Marine Corps is about 'Honour, Courage, Commitment,' " he says.
"These are traditions that a lot of kids often have forgotten."

But not here, not at the 66th annual Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo.

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The Globe and Mail
November 13, 2002
Why do we care about Republican burpers?
JEFFREY SIMPSON
The Nation
jsim...@globeandmail.ca
.........
Take just one example: Israel. The Republican right defends
everything Israel does, and chastises as anti-Israel all who
observe, say, that 350,000 Israeli settlers occupy 42 per cent
of the West Bank, where 2.4 million Palestinians live.

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"WAR IS PEACE"

"FREEDOM IS SLAVERY"

"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Terrorism is the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or
property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population,
or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social
objectives.

--FBI Definition

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Barry Marjanovich

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Apr 1, 2003, 12:03:11 AM4/1/03

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2904889.stm
Tuesday, 1 April, 2003

Texans fly the flag for war

By Chris Ledgard
BBC News Online in Austin, Texas

"Some say this country's just out looking for a fight - after 9-11, man
I'd have to say that's right... Have you forgotten how it felt that day
to see your homeland under fire, and your people blown away?"

Supporters in Texas see their soldiers as "standing up for what's right"

The words of Darryl Worley, whose song "Have You Forgotten?" has became
a favourite of right-leaning radio presenters in the USA. These "shock
jocks" have been using their shows to rally the nation round the flag,
and heap abuse upon anti-war protestors.

One of the presenters, Don Crawford from Austin, Texas, was recently
sacked for - his bosses said - going too far.

Mr Crawford was a guest of honour at the "Rally for America" in Austin,
where the Darryl Worley song had them cheering in the sunshine outside
the red granite Texas State Capitol.

Somewhere between two and three thousand gathered, waving the Stars and
Stripes, and holding up banners praising Bush and the troops and
lambasting the French.

'Rummy can handle anything'

And what of the alleged bust-up between Defence Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and the nation's finest military brains? No-one was having any
of that:

"Rummy can handle anything they throw at him. I love him", said a lady
dressed as the Statue of Liberty. "He tells the truth. He tells it like
it is and he will not put up with the idiot questions he has to answer
from the media. He tells it how it needs to be."

Some had driven hours across this huge state to get to the rally. Many
military families were there. Jean Glass has both a son and a nephew in
Camp Pendleton, a military base north of San Diego.

"My son's not over there yet," he said, "and I hope he doesn't have to
go. But if he does get sent out, it won't be our government's fault.
Somebody has to do it. Somebody has to stand up for what's right."

Mistrusting the media

Watching the rally quietly in the middle of the crowd was Michael Ford,
a serving US Marine. As a military man, what did he think of the news
coming back from the Gulf?

"It's going well. I trust in the people above me and their judgement. If
they say its going well then they're not going to lie to us."

The media, Michael added, are misrepresenting public feeling in the
United States. "I think the amount of support is actually much higher
than the press shows you," he said.

"It's bad that the press generally only shows the anti-war protests and
the anti-war statements."

Among supporters of the war this is a widely held feeling - that anti
war protestors have hijacked media attention so that, in the US at any
rate, an unbalanced picture of public opinion emerges in the papers and
over the airwaves.

If the battle for Baghdad is prolonged, the rally war also looks likely
to escalate.

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