← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Sertorius
Thread ID: 19908 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2005-08-31
2005-08-31 18:40 | User Profile
Yahoo! News Our kids not 'cannon fodder' for Iraq: Latinos for Peace
Tue Aug 30, 7:06 PM ET
Calling Hispanics "cannon fodder" in Iraq, Latinos for Peace wants to keep Latinos from being recruited for the war.
"Our schools have been drafted as the data base for turning our youth into cannon fodder again," said Rosalio Munoz, chairperson of the National Chicano Moratorium and coordinator of Latinos for Peace, launched Monday.
"We join in the campaign to inform parents of how to opt out of having local schools hand over their children's contact data to recruiters and opt out of their children being given the (US) Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (test) at the local schools," Munoz said.
Too many young Latinos have perished in Iraq, according to the group, which wants to avoid what it says would be a repeat of the Vietnam war, fought largely by young men belonging to minority groups.
The group launched its campaign in the United States on the 35th anniversary of the National Chicano Moratorium, when 20,000 persons protested the disproportionate number of Latinos who died in Vietnam, and which ended with the deaths of three persons, including Los Angeles Times journalist Ruben Salazar.
"In the Vietnam era, the Pentagon targeted Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and other minority and poor youth with a discriminatory draft," said Munoz, who planned press conferences in San Diego, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The group wants to ask high schools to limit military recruiters' access to students and their personal information and to teach high schoolers how to keep their data from the Pentagon.
Under the law that created President George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" program, recruiters have access to the students' information, unless they opt out.
The group wants to have as many children as possible sign opt-out lists.
Copyright é 2005 Agence France Presse. All rights reserved. Copyright é 2005 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Questions or Comments Privacy Policy -Terms of Service - Copyright/IP Policy - Ad Feedback [url]http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050830/ts_alt_afp/usiraqlatinosprotest[/url] ================= They learned well from Jesse Jackson.
2005-09-01 04:49 | User Profile
[font=Times New Roman][size=3]Beaners as cannon fodder? If ONLY!
Sadly, the ruling elites have long ago preordained whites to die in their un-Constitutional wars for empire overseas, while back in the States brown neighbor gets to steal, rob, fornicate and drink himself into an ignorant stupor on taxpayer-provided Jose Cuervo.
That's why the spicks sing Cielito Lindo all day long, in case you ever wondered... [/size][/font]
2005-09-01 05:10 | User Profile
I figure this dove tails nicely with some of the proposals made by the likes of Max Boot. As stupid as the Neocons are I can see where they may want a truly mercenary army and not realizing anytime they want, they can get rid of the Neocons.
2005-09-01 14:39 | User Profile
At least we now know that the "Latino Leadership" no longers consider a Latino an American. Not a secret anymore. The fact that the war is a policy mess that is daily making Iran's role as big dog in the Middle East easier is another issue entirely. That fact that it most likely should not have been embarked upon is beside the point. The same crap came up in 91 when a reserve unit lost 28 guys to a Scud attack and someone went all over, with a small sample size, saying the "minorities died in disproporitonal numbers in Desert Storm." This kind of crap is both intellectually dishonest, and to my mind disgustingly self serving.
Fresh off the boat Irishmen fought and died by the hundreds in the Civil War. Lots of "boat people" (my grandma and grandpa came over after WW I) fought and died on foreign shores in WW I and WW II.
Lots of whites and blacks, and hispanics, fought and died in Viet Nam. They all died for a misbegotten policy decision.
But now, when it is all volunteer, the Latinos are somehow special, are somehow a special sub class of [u]victims?[/u] Sorry, the argument works well enough for the draft. It is sheerest crap ice in an Army that for 30 years has been all volunteer.
Merde del Toro
AE Thanks for the link. [QUOTE=Sertorius]Yahoo! News Our kids not 'cannon fodder' for Iraq: Latinos for Peace [/QUOTE]
2005-09-01 15:12 | User Profile
Every groups only cares for their own. Except in whites that natural instinct is suppressed by zhid propaganda. Messican La Raza motto is pretty good, actually: nothing for outsiders, everything for your people. Whites should start thinking like that.
2005-09-01 16:26 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Angeleyes][B]The same crap came up in 91 when a reserve unit lost 28 guys to a Scud attack and someone went all over, with a small sample size, saying the "minorities died in disproporitonal numbers in Desert Storm." This kind of crap is both intellectually dishonest, and to my mind disgustingly self serving.[/B]
Fresh off the boat Irishmen fought and died by the hundreds in the Civil War. Lots of "boat people" (my grandma and grandpa came over after WW I) fought and died on foreign shores in WW I and WW II.
Lots of [COLOR=Red]whites and blacks, and hispanics[/COLOR], fought and died in Viet Nam. They all died for a misbegotten policy decision. [/QUOTE]The 28 killed in the SCUD attack were all from western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, if I recall correctly. I believe all were white.
Despite popular myths blacks actually died at a rate less than their percentage of draft age population.
2005-09-01 18:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=edward gibbon]The 28 killed in the SCUD attack were all from western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, if I recall correctly. I believe all were white.
Despite popular myths blacks actually died at a rate less than their percentage of draft age population.[/QUOTE] EG
Not having the old article on that one, I'll take your word for it on point 1. Understand the myth issue in Viet Nam, which is why I lumped three demographic groups into a comment that, as I look back on it, did not really fit the reply.
Need to tighten up the brain, thanks for the nudge to the ribs.
AE