De Oorlogsstaat 26

Kern van een gemilitariseerde maatschappij is dat er overal recruten geronseld kunnen worden, totaan de universiteiten toe. Zo niet dan loopt het imperium gevaar. De Amerikaanse geleerde Chalmers Johnson schreef in 'The Sorrows of Empire': 'In 2000, President Clinton signed a new law promoted by the Pentagon that gave military recruiters the same access to high schools granted to college and business recruiters... in 2001 the Pentagon engineered an amendment to a new law intended to help disadvanteged students. This amended law, which President Bush called (without apparent irony) his No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, states: "Any secondary school that receives federal funds under this Act shall permit regular United States Armed Services recruitment activities on school grounds, in an manner reasonably accessible to all students of such schools." [...] As Representative John Shimkus (R-Illinois) said triumphantly, "No recruiters, no money."' Want de oorlogsstaat heeft kanonnenvoer nodig, anders kan het geen oorlogsstaat zijn. Het persbureau Associated Press bericht: 'Court upholds campus military recruiting. WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that the government can force colleges to open their campuses to military recruiters despite university objections to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays. Justices rejected a free-speech challenge from law schools and professors who claimed they should not have to associate with military recruiters or promote their campus appearances. The decision was a setback for universities that had become the latest battleground over the military policy allowing gay men and women to serve only if they keep their sexual orientation to themselves. The ruling does not, however, answer broader questions about the policy itself. Challenges are pending in courts in Boston and Los Angeles that could eventually reach the high court. Justices seemed swayed by the Bush administration's arguments that after the terrorist attacks, and during the war in Iraq, the government had a responsibility to bolster its recruitment. Chief Justice John Roberts said that campus visits are an effective recruiting tool. And, he said, "a military recruiter's mere presence on campus does not violate a law school's right to associate, regardless of how repugnant the law school considers the recruiter's message." The 8-0 decision upheld a federal law that says universities must give the military the same access as other recruiters or forfeit federal money.' Lees verder: http://pageoneq.com/rssfeedstuff/index.php?id=6345 Of:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030606U.shtml