"If you don’t want to be part of the military, then don’t join. It really is that easy!"
and stop paying taxes and stop using capital and move to another planet its really that easy :)

" they should have tried to organize a civil discussion with them" Yea I never understood why conversations with police in charge of reinforcing the state never went well. Its almost like they are paid to do something and their livelihood depends on their continued support of that position...and what do you know they are not interested in giving that up when presented with some clever arguments.

"Curtail their rights to gain information" That is exactly true we feel military branding to students should be curtailed. Its not like they are getting any recruits from UCSC anyway the protest and eventual removal of recruiters at ucsc is a purely symbolic battle to confront social aesthetics of militarism. The military does not hope to recruit many on campuses rather they are there to improve their mental image in the larger mental environment. We confront that image and de-normalize militarism. This is an important step in mental environment battle which sets up frames of reference for the larger population. We aim to destroy the cool fascism military aesthetic, not to “prevent� ucsc students from being recruited; socioeconomic conditions already do that for us.