Comments on: Peace Thugs Disrupt Job Fair

By: thor

thor — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:57:43 +0000

The protest lasted for one hour, the job fair lasted for three. Every time the administration asked students to step away from the entrance, once they had entered, they did.

Protesters came, carried their message, the recruiters left, administrators tidied the process, and then the Santa Cruz Sentinel wrote an article about how disruptive protesters were, and interviewed five people opposed to the protest and no supporters. Liberal town? Liberal media? My ass.

By: LJD

LJD — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:37:16 +0000

Earth to Jethro...
Recount after recount, Gore lost. Get over it.

By: jethro

jethro — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 18:22:25 +0000

How did you boys feel about the GOP rent-a-mob that stopped Dade County vote counting back in 2000? Differently, I'll bet.

By: Jim Nelson

Jim Nelson — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:02:41 +0000

You call THAT a riot? Sorry, Sparky, but that dog won't hunt.

Although, I can understand why you'd want to use such hysterical, pejorative language to vilify and thus dehumanize those with whom you disagree. Makes debate a lot easier, doesn't it?

By: LJD

LJD — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:21:03 +0000

...and I'm not buying the gay "issue. This was nothing more than an anti-war, anti-military effort. Period. Hence the desire to disrupt rather than make any viewpoint heard.

I have debated the question frequently whether being gay is a choice, or inborn. I'll defer any stand on that argument for this: The military is a career choice. One not to be taken lightly by any individual. If a gay person (by choice or not) really wants to be in the military, then they also choose to keep their lifestyle in the closet. Many, many heterosexual soldiers choose to forgo a family life to be in the military. What's the difference?

I seem to remember that one beloved cigar smoking President came up with this policy. Interesting that his faithful followers are NOW so adamantly against it. Or is this yet another noisy group looking for special treatment?

By: LJD

LJD — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:09:18 +0000

Botton line: These idiots infringed on their fellow students' right to attend a job fair, up to and including the possibility of a career in the military.
If they learned to "express" themselves this way in school, then absolutely they should receive extra-curricular training with water cannons and tear gas.

By: AnjinSan

AnjinSan — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:54:17 +0000

How does shouting & "banging on windows" equate to rioting? Maybe you guys can start a nice gulag for these "thugs", or for anyone who actions disturb you for that matter...

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:41:45 +0000

We don't need gays in the military... hell, we don't need anybody in this military! Let's abolish it and create a popular militia/real national guard force to defend the border. We could actually stop terrorists, and prevent the CIA from importing drugs.

Really... there are actually a lot of people on both the right and the left (real conservatives and real leftists, not Bush neo-cons and Clinton liberals) that agree on this one: the empire threatens the republic.

Let's stop spending all this money and sending our kids to die in other peoples' countries. We should bring all the troops home and use them to defend America, not corporate interests abroad!

Those kids in Santa Cruz are great. They are setting a real example for America's youth.

Long live the REPUBLIC!

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:18:10 +0000

What an inane series of things to do. First of all the military does discriminate: by age, weight, physical fitness, handicaps. My feeling is that those protestors would have found a discrimination even without don't ask don't tell..."why can't I become a Navy Seal just because I am woman...thats discrimination."

By: Clemen

Clemen — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:47:41 +0000

IN RESPONSE TO LJD:

"Airline pilots canât be drunk. Food service workers cannot have poor hygiene. Certain kinds of nurses canât have hepatitis."

So you equate homosexuality with intoxication, filth, and disease?

Just asking.

If any of you are 18-39, I highly suggest you enlist. Thanks in advance for dying so my neighbor can drive his SUV to the mall.

George Bless America!

By: omusicjak

omusicjak — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 22:23:21 +0000

While I feel bad for the stressful position of the recruiters, the military has no right to be on campus recruiting while they practice discriminatory hiring tactics. Don't Ask Don't Tell is purely an Anti-Gay/Homophobic policy. They fire their military members who have identified themselves as gay. There is no possible reason to keep such a policy intact except for ignorant and prejudice purposes. According to UCSC's own policies, no businesses that practice prejudice hiring policies are allowed on the UCSC campus. These protesters are heroes.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:28:46 +0000

Hey, at least it rhymes. These days that's almost worth a full professorship and tenure.

By: Cricket

Cricket — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 21:28:00 +0000

UC Santa Cruz has a problem in that the town itself
is stuck in 1964. So the slogan was probably the
best they could do after free love near the Boardwalk.

They should have been carted off. And do I hear
UC Santa Cruz's budget getting a nice chop? And
tuition going up? That's progress for you.

"Don't ask, don't tell" is not discriminatory.
Not only that, there is a whole little sensitivity pamplet that the Army (and I am not sure about the other services) that explains the rights gay servicemembers have if they are either outed (the right to confront their accusers)or they out themselves.

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:05:24 +0000

"Racist, Sexist, Anti-Gay. Hey, recruiters, go away."

THIS is the product of a college education?

By: John Gillnitz

John Gillnitz — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:00:23 +0000

Cool! I gonna make a Peace Thug t-shirt for my next riot.