Stop Military Recruiters!

I've seen posters around campus and gotten a few emails from former communist groups that got me on a list after I went to one ANSWER coalition meeting - I knew I shouldn't have given them my info, the freaking cultists.

Anyhow, I think it is quite awful to be protesting against military recruiting...the basic presumption being that the volunteer US Army is one of the larger problems with the world and it somehow manipulates poor, young people into joining it and oppressing other people - becoming part of their favorite catch-phrase, the "military industrial complex." Wooooooo.

I can see being against a draft or generally being a pacifist. But that's not what these people are. They are aggressive, anti-US military activists, who put their faith in NGOs and other interest groups. My question for NGO's: Who the fuck elected you to speak on behalf of anyone? NGOs are interest groups. The founding fathers defined them as factions and thought they were one of the biggest threats to the liberty of people when they constructed the Constitution. NGOs operate outside the government and try to manipulate institutions like the UN to get their agendas passed....they don't have an interest in working within the electoral process in the US because they lose...they don't have popular support and don't need it. They are perfectly happy having a bunch of rabid followers and who oppose various actions by the US government. It's as if their only political tool is a filibuster...the most they can hope to achieve is to halt or stop or disrupt - but they are utterly incapable of providing an alternative or making any progess or actually helping anyone. They are impotent and strive to cut of the balls of other institutions. It seems as if their tactics and goals are to allow tyrants and unelected, illegitimate governments to operate as freely as a government with elected officials and a history of legitimacy...they would say the legitimacy and power of the Sudanese government or a Baathist government should be equal to that of the US government or the British or Australian or Japanese government. Gangstas are equal to elected officials. Off. They're really off.

I know this entry was not organized at all...it went off in a weird direction.