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March 15, 2006
"Students Against War" Wins Distinction and Important Friends
The San Francisco Chronicle offers a glowing piece on UC Santa Cruz's Students Against War, which has acquired a "badge of honor" by making it onto a Pentagon surveillance list.
Unlike a similar activist group at Berkeley, Students Against War is proudly classified as a "credible threat" to U.S. military facilities and personnel. The group earned this distinction through their devotion to "counter-recruiting" — that is, disrupting military recruiting efforts by whatever means possible. Some tactics are tasteless but harmless, such as staging a "queer kiss-in" in front of military recruiters. Other tactics are less benign:
About a dozen protesters entered a career fair in a campus building and surrounded a table where military recruiters sat, preventing other students from talking with them. More than 300 people demonstrated outside. In the jostling that ensued, a career-center staffer was slightly injured.
The recruiters left; some found their tires slashed when they returned to their cars. No one has been cited in connection with the vandalism.
This heroic behavior has won Students Against War support not only from the San Francisco Chronicle, but also from the ACLU, which has filed a federal lawsuit against the Defense Department in an attempt to force the Pentagon to release any information it has gathered on the group. As the ACLU is made up of lawyers, they might want to advise their friends to read up on sedition laws in the U.S. Code (emphasis mine):
Whoever, when the United States is at war, willfully causes or attempts to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States, or willfully obstructs the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States, to the injury of the service or the United States, or attempts to do so -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.
Wouldn't it be nice if this law were enforced? Although I'm sure Moonbat Jack Murtha doesn't think so.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 15, 2006 1:00 PM
Comments
I'm sure the Marines guarding the White House are fleeing in terror as I write.
Posted by: associatecontributor1 at March 15, 2006 8:32 PM
As recruiters drive government vehicles,if they slash tires of said government vehicle,that would be desruction of government property as well.
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Posted by: The Mountain Man at March 17, 2006 11:12 AM
