Right Back At Ya, Sweetheart.

Michelle Malkin's latest sheds light on how the enlightened, tolerant and diversity loving students at UC Santa Cruz greeted the military last year.  This year, they are back at it by staging protests outside a job fair where recruiters from the Army and National Guard were in attendance.  It amazes me the level of hypocrisy at which some people can function.  The you-can-have-your-opinion-as-long-as-it's-identical-to-mine crowd makes me want to puke.  Those who take it a step further and equate your refusal to agree with them as an indication of your lack of brains/sophistication/etc. are those I still have a good chuckle over every now and then.  I especially love those who are not college educated, bemoan the government's inability to take care of their every need and blame everyone else for their inability to function as an adult, but who still enjoy putting themselves on a pedestal over those of us who have never shied from taking responsibility for ourselves AND for them.  (On that note, I'm putting these schlubs on notice--today is the day when my tax burden has been officially paid for '06 and I'm now working for myself, baby!) 

Just like the little playground thugs who would whimper like little girls when you finally caught them alone and delivered the message that you weren't going to take it anymore, those who engage in the battle against freedom of choice find safety in numbers.  Sad, isn't it, that those so "enlightened" can't see the ridiculous nature of loosey-goosey, anything goes CHOICE for only one side of the debate. 

Since UC Santa Cruz is a publicly-funded university and the campus police were ineffectual in maintaining the order and security for the recruiters, I wonder if there will be any threats of cutting off their funding.  If not, I'd like to make a little suggestion for those recruiters just trying to do their jobs...

Take your buddies to work.  Or, better yet, invite a few wives like me to be in attendance.  Just like the security line that blocks access to the hottest music acts, my fellow military spouses and I would welcome in those who the recruiters wanted to see and escort those who wished to protest to a safe distance from the station.  We would take copious videos and photographs and post them on military spouse blogs all across the internet...it would be a nice way to spend an afternoon.  I'm thinking of t-shirt slogans for the masses of spouses I KNOW would volunteer for "recruiter support duty."

Kids in college do dumb things.  Period.  End of sentence.  I am not willing to take the next leap that these protestors so obviously believe and say that kids in college are ill-equipped to make decisions about their future, their career or their goals.  Those who are ready to enlist didn't necessarily need to shake a recruiters hand and those who were outside waving their middle fingers to freedom of choice weren't interested either.  I wonder how many students had questions for recruiters, however?  I wonder how many students might have gathered some information and decided against it for themselves but shared enough to spark someone else's interest?

People should be able to do what they wish.  Making informed decisions means having the freedom to be exposed to EVERYTHING available in the Marketplace of Ideas.  You want to protest the military recruiters at job fairs?  Whatever.  It's America.  Disrupting the job fair to the point that military recruiters are having their property damaged and leaving because they fear for their safety (which, you should know, means they don't want to put themselves in a position where some pencil-necked sign carrier is going to be hurt...recruiters are TRAINED to do that, you know?) and that of others, is not.

Sign me up for Recruiter Support Staff any day. 

Comments

[airforcewife]

But really, what can you expect from a university that doesn't give grades?

As a side trip from one of our summer trips to the Beach Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, hubby and I stopped by the University. We saw the Naked Guy.

He had a bandana on.

[yankeemom]

Since I live just down the hill from this esteemed insitution of higher education, and I know the recruiters who had to put up with this nonsense,I would love to see all you military wives and moms here to escort some of our finest. I have offered my services as a proud Army Mom when I've heard of protests being held at the station ~ hooah! Thanks for spreading the support for our guys here in the area!