Sunday, April 23, 2006

On "John Kerry Gets His Voice Back"

As an citizen "observer" of different anti-war events i.e., the War Moratorium, which brought many law-abiding citizens to Washington, D.C. one May Day, to protest with permits, a very short permit I might add; the doctor and nurse whose hospital was bombed in North Vietnam, protested with free speech on Madison Ave., in NYC; Mothers Against the War rallies; campus activities at Stony Brook University and Suffolk Community College, etc. I found John Kerry's speech a good summary of protest. Now how about the reported 20,000 JROTC programs in mostly poor high schools that cost $1 billion a year? They started in 1970, the year before John Kerry's testimony, one in my school in the town named after the Judge Selden who testified on behalf of Susan B. Anthony, who dressed as a man, had the gall to vote in an election and was tried for it (pre 1920). Is this "draft replacement" program fair and equal under the Constitution? They seemed to have appeared like the fog in the Carl Sandberg poem.

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