[Peace-discuss] *Meg Miner writes N-G*: IHSA flyers, National Guard & Champaign Police

[Brian Dolinar]

Great editorial from Meg.
Much attention was given to press disallowed from the football affair
but none to this exercise of free speech.

BD

On Nov 30, 2007 11:13 AM, Jan & Durl Kruse <jandurl at insightbb.com> wrote:

> Youth can serve U.S. aside from military
>
> Friday November 30, 2007
>
> On Nov. 25 you ran a wire service article about a Maryland-based
> recruiter. A National Guard recruiting event took place Saturday at the
> IHSA football tournament. It's too bad you couldn't have spent some
> journalistic energy on the local recruiting scene.
>
> With written permission from the University of Illinois Police, members
> of AWARE (anti-war, anti-racism effort) were in the vicinity of the
> Guard's trailer. We were distributing information about military
> recruiting that passing high schoolers and their families would not
> hear from the Guard, whose mission on Saturday seemed to be challenging
> youth to chin-ups and pushups and handing out prizes.
>
> If The News-Gazette had been present, you might have seen AWARE members
> being warned of a disturbing the peace charge by Champaign Police and
> of the group having names and personal information recorded by the
> officers.
>
> I am a Gulf War vet and was with an Iraq and a World War II vet, along
> with a handful of peace-promoting civilians. No reasonable person would
> view our actions as disturbing the peace. I can only guess the Guard's
> recruiters were disturbed by the message on our flyers
> (http://tinyurl.com/2v7d6a) and felt that police intimidation would
> make us leave. It didn't.
>
> I was in an Air Force recruiting unit before retiring. My message to
> local youth is you can serve your country without being in the
> military. Our doctrine of pre-emption is clearly a failure. Let's all
> promise our service members and our youth to work for better foreign
> policy solutions.
>
>  MEG MINER
>
> Mansfield
>  Find this article at:
>
> http://www.news-gazette.com/news/opinions/letters/2007/11/30/
> youth_can_serve_us_aside_from_military
>
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