The San Francisco Board of Education voted 4-2 to eliminate the JROTC from their public high schools.
Are they eliminating the JROTC because of lack of interest or participation in the JROTC? No, more than 1600 students are currently participating in the 90-year old program. They’re eliminating the JROTC because the fine folks from Nancy Pelosi’s city despise the military:
Their position was summed up by a former teacher, Nancy Mancias, who said, “We need to teach a curriculum of peace.”
A curriculum of peace? These idiots just don’t understand that you can only have peace once you have defeated (by force) those who would destroy you. Do they really believe that we can have peace with Islamofacist terrorists by just “loving them more” (rehetorical question — because the anser is “Yes, they do believe that.”)?
OK…so it’s San Francisco. So go ahead and have your “Curriculum of Peace”, but leave the JROTC in place for the kids who do see value and honor in it.
No. That won’t do either. Because remember: the underlying reason for this is their unadulterated hatred of the US military:
…”We don’t want the military ruining our civilian institutions,” said Sandra Schwartz of the American Friends Service Committee, an organization actively opposing JROTC nationwide. “In a healthy democracy … you contain the military. You must contain the military.”
They don’t want the military ruining their civilian institutions? Are they fucking kidding me? That’s one of the most offensive anti-military statements I’ve heard (at least since Rep. Jack Murtha [D-PA] accused the Haditha Marines of cold-blooded murder and since Dick Durbin [D-IL] compared our troops to the Nazis, Soviet gulag operators, and everyone’s favorite genocidal maniac, Pol Pot).
How much longer is it before San Fran enacts zoning ordinances to ban any military recruiting stations or military recruiting activities from within its city borders?
Fuck San Francisco.
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), is a Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) affiliated organization. Because Quakers traditionally oppose violence in all of its forms and therefore refuse to serve in the military, the AFSC’s original mission was to provide conscientious objectors (COs) to war with a constructive alternative to military service. Its stated purpose is “to confront, non-violently, powerful institutions of violence, evil, oppression, and injustice.” To this end, the organization has supported the most brutal, repressive and corrupt regimes in world history. The AFSC, which is revered by the Left for its history of actively opposing U.S. “aggression,” has defended the Viet Cong and the P.L.O. These seekers of social justice have repeatedly turned a blind eye toward modern slaveholding nations while keeping their finger perpetually pointed at the United States.
While not founded by Communists, the AFSC quickly developed a cozy relationship with both the Communist Party USA and various socialist and revolutionary groups of the fifth column. The AFSC does not see Communism as presenting an Evil Empire, as did those who suffered under its persecution, nor even does it see socialist totalitarianism as an alternate economic system. They view Communism as a desirable state. While not Communist in name, they espouse and endorse every plank of the Communist party platform, all the while hiding behind the religious shield of Quakerism and non-violence. The American Friends Service Committee is and has always been committed to undermining Western democracy, propping up Communist regimes and working for the total disarmament of the United States in the face of her enemies. Removing the JROTC from San Francisco schools is but a single goal of this pro-Communist group - and therefore makes them a darling to the local San Francisco Socialist elite.
Left by Shamalama on November 15th, 2006 at 3:35 pm