Post in YAWR School Walk Out and Impeachment

2007 Nov 13 18:00 UTC

Kevin Wynn says: "Encouraging high school students, minors, to leave school and
attend this protest?  What an incredibly bad idea!  I hope no children are
injured."

I suppose, Kevin, but what do you think about opening our Minneapolis schools
to those who encourage children, minors, to take up arms and fight in a faraway
place where they are not wanted, where the locals oppose their presence with
such force that many of our children end up dead and many more end up wounded
for life, where they witness scenes of death and ugliness so profound that the
nightmares last forever, barely dulled by drink or medication.

If you read the Youth Against War and Racism website (http://www.yawr.org), you
will find that many of their efforts are against the pervasive military
recruitment in out public schools.

So I ask you two questions:

First, which do you think is the more dangerous situation, protesting on the
streets of Minneapolis or attacking the streets of Fallujah?

Second, let us assume that these is some risk involved in both activities.  Let
us further assume that the brave individual will sometimes need to take risks
in order to protest all of our freedoms.  Don't you believe that Friday's
protest is very much designed to protect our freedoms?  Or do you truly believe
that our freedoms are only protected by killing those who disagree with our
foreign policy?

I salute these idealistic youth.  I hope nothing bad happens to them at the
hands of our local gendarmes.  But I truly believe that much, much worse will
be happening to our children if we strip them of their freedoms, squelch their
dissent and punish them for recognizing the horrible cancer of war that is
growing within us.