Sunday, December 11, 2005
Something That Burns My @$$
From the 6 December 2005 Wall Street Journal:
"Military recruitment, already strained by the war in Iraq, is facing a key legal test that pits the government's need for troops against the rights of schools to protest the Pentagon's policy toward openly gay soldiers.
"Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on whether the federal government can legally withdraw billions of dollars in funding from universities if they refuse to give military recruiters access to students on an equal footing with other employers."
Let's just point out the obvious: Law schools (or anyone or anything) gets government largesse because, for some reason or another, the institution (or whatever) is presumed to be of some societal benefit.
On the other hand, law schools are not subsidized so they can be de facto recruitment stations for the Pentagon.
Of course, at least five people, I'm sure disagree with me -- five justices of the SCOTUS.
And the law schools and colleges are already serving as involuntary de factor recruiting stations. There are actually students enrolled in the national guards to finance their education -- and end up in the current war zones.
But this whole everything is to serve the military mentality....
"Military recruitment, already strained by the war in Iraq, is facing a key legal test that pits the government's need for troops against the rights of schools to protest the Pentagon's policy toward openly gay soldiers.
"Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on whether the federal government can legally withdraw billions of dollars in funding from universities if they refuse to give military recruiters access to students on an equal footing with other employers."
Let's just point out the obvious: Law schools (or anyone or anything) gets government largesse because, for some reason or another, the institution (or whatever) is presumed to be of some societal benefit.
On the other hand, law schools are not subsidized so they can be de facto recruitment stations for the Pentagon.
Of course, at least five people, I'm sure disagree with me -- five justices of the SCOTUS.
And the law schools and colleges are already serving as involuntary de factor recruiting stations. There are actually students enrolled in the national guards to finance their education -- and end up in the current war zones.
But this whole everything is to serve the military mentality....
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