The Military shouldn't be allowed to come onto our campus for a veriety of reasons. Perhaps the most clear and abvious reason is that they violate the Career Fair's own criteria about who and who isnt allowed in. Secondly, for all of you fascists saying that the soldiers are defending our right to free speech and our way of life, I would recomend that you take a closer look at what our soldiers are currently doing in Iraq. Iraq never threatened us. WE went to war with them because WE claimed that they were making wmd's(weapons that the U.S. already has and still produces in mass quantities). Secondly, the mass murder of Iraqi civilians certainly isnt protecting my right to free speech, or my way of life for that matter. The fact is that this is an imperialist war being fought for corporations and the wealthy, and I'm so sorry that some of you believe that our soldiers are actually helping anybody but the two aforementioned groups. The military is classist(rich people don't need money for college, only the disenfranchised do), sexist(women can't serve in combat positions, and are consistently harrased/raped without check) and are homophobic(Don't Ask, Don't Tell). And last but not least, everyone saying that "if you havent been over there, you can't talk about it" is complete and total lunacy. Using that standard everything you read in a book during your entire education would be illegitimate because you werent there, or didnt actually do it. An organization who's main function is slaughtering the poor peoples of the earth has no right to speak in my university.
Re: MILITARY OFF UCSC - MARCH & RALLY TUESDAY!
Date Edited: 17 Oct 2005 05:45:40 PM
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