College Republicans becoming very visible and aggressive on our

campus. Today they were marching in formation carrying signs touting Bush's Social Security "Plan." One said, "My future, my decision." A very short distance away, a man was standing on a retaining wall preaching, while other students carried signs declaring "There is only one God and he is Vengeful" and "Christ is the only way to salvation."

I have to admit it was a little un-nerving, which I'm sure is what it was meant to be.

If they support the "president", they can help out with a little shortage we seem to be having.

I'd go and ask them why weren't they serving the president in Iraq? Why are they here and not enlisted in the army? Don't they think there's "terrorist" in Iraq they should be defeating? Why do they hate Amerika?

I would suspect that most of the ROTC students tend toward consertive politics.

Or then again, I guess it's "their future, their decision".

My old college had folks handing out Bibles. Students gave them such a time, they stopped doing it. At the time, Young Republicians only had 1 member and a professor asked us to join in poli sci once. She got heckled.

Best thing to do is nod your head and get an education which those fools weren't doing.

there were men passing out Bible's too. I polietly said "no thanks" (have enough Bibles and stuff) and they didn't bug me thankfully. This one girl was also passing out flyers for people to come to her church. She asked me and I told her I was busy (going to my own church).

I was sitting on campus (I'm not even a student) and sitting in the shade, reading a book...and this group comes up to me..."We're the Christians On Campus, may we pray for you?"

I looked up and asked, "Why? Do I look like I NEED to be prayed for? Exactly what about me makes me appear to need YOU to pray for ME? And just by the way, has anyone ever told you before that your group's acronym would be COC?? (pronounce "cock")

They walked away.

Sometimes, you just have to be offensive to offensive people, you know it?

But I like the idea of enlistment forms, too. I think I'll try that. Next time one of these moron Repukes gets in my face with his bullshit Bible literature and Republican literature, I'm gonna give him an enlistment form. See how much he REALLY supports the Pretzeldent!!

What a bunch of brainwashed zombie assholes! Dunno whether to pity them or despise them.

They have been stepping up their efforts lately and I haven't seen the Young Dems once this semester. (I'm an old Dem.) Last semester we had those bald-headed, orange robe wearing people. I can't remember their name now. There were two of them passing out brochures. Nobody ever paid any attention to them. But, they were quiet, they'd offer the brochure, you could do a little headshake and they'd turn to somebody else.

We have the Catholic Newmans out sometimes and the Pro-choice people, and the hiking club, etc., etc. Everyone offers their literature, etc. but nobody marches in formation, chanting like god-damned Nazis, nor do they usually preach hell-fire and damnation. I believe they have every right to do this, but I just get the feeling they are becoming overly bold and aggressive. It makes me nervous.

I like the military brochure idea. I actually thought of that the other day when this young Republican was standing out in front of his table barking like a carney at the passers-by. I wished I had had one. I'm going to get some for the next time.

group a few semestres back that were screaming at people and a crowd of students collected and started screaming back. It was surreal.

ASU is AZ State or....?

but it appears one side is trying to turn that in their favor. We're going to have to start pushing back.

Something sounds askew here...

any protesting at my college. I go to a local community school. I still see quite a few Kerry stickers so I don't think if it happened at my school republicans wouldn't have a counter reaction from the other side. :) Of course they're welcome to protest, but so are we.

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I've got one of the unissued ones and it was a gem, but I was fortunate enough to get it NIB from a Chattanooga FFL for $175, tax and all.

with their parents, because they'll be supporting them in their old age if Bush gets his way with Social Security.

We had some strange people preaching on our campus, but sometimes even the Campus Crusade for Christ agreed that some of them were off the wall.

Preaching vengence seems anti-Christlike somehow. Sooo, are they saying that God will smite us if Social Security isn't reformed? Oye.

like Bush and talk to God too?

if someone admits to hearing voices, the psychiatrists will put them on medication. For some reason if the person claims it's God (the voices), they don't get called schizophrenic. And they get to push their "message" of a hateful God off on some poor unsuspecting peaceful nice person who doesn't deserve such hate. For shame for shame. There oughta be a law and some meds for them and they should be forced to take them until they get their heads on straight.

who hear god talking back to them who make me nervous.

I'll bet it's pretty creepy and kind of scary. It makes you wonder how far that sort of thing is going to go.

I'm not seeing anything like that at the community college that I'm at, but I guess that's kind of a different situation.

Germany in the 30's.

If they want to start pushing that around where I'm at I might have to do something, maybe I'll go to the nearest recruiting office and pick up a stack of forms to hand out ;).

The little pukes I see are seriously programmed.

There is nothing here for them to protest except my views. I get about 15 of them ganged up on me if I speak my mind on anything. It's hideous. They are such bullies.

I wonder if I will need to buy an AK47?

pro Bush hunters who could let you borrow theirs, if neither of us tells them we'd use them to protect ourselves from them... I seriously heard a hunter say he only cared about the 2nd amendment and he thought Ak's oughtta be legal and easy to buy for hunting purposes. I can just hear it. Bite chomp chomp chomp, crack, <tooth falls out of mouth along with AK ammo>. ???

Am an avid hunter. The 7.63 x 39 AK ammo is at best a marginal hunting round. Prefer 30-06 or Winchester 308.

"Gott mit uns"

Believe the Wehrmacht belt buckle was engraved with Gott Mit Uns.
The SS belt buckle had the SS rune symbol.

Sad. :( And of course they don't think of themselves as bullies but us. :eyes: Thanks to the lovely Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter....

a ton of money into campus conservative groups.

there was a story about young repubs at UT that were supposed to be organizing an illegal immigrant hunt. It was going to be a mock thing where students dressed as illegals were going to be hunted down. The demonstrators showed up but not the the little nazis. They changed their minds at the last minute. They did do it on the U. of North Texas campus however. It is all very disturbing.

:scared:

That is very extreme.

you can bet the little bastards participating in this kind of shit have been handed EVERYTHING to them in their entire miserable lives

Sounds like they're supporting abortion.

Fucking Nazi Youth ...... :eyes:

For it seems that our enemies will show us none.

These are the times that heroes are made.

If it's not their way, it's propaganda. We must insist that colleges and universities contain a multitude of opinions, thoughts and debates. These guys are getting awfully aggressive. Just so you know, I live in Rohnert Park, CA, a stone's throw from SRJC, which is, by the way way, rated as one of the best JCs in the US. Think on that. Why pick SRJC in little Santa Rosa CA? You have your answer. They are seriously intimidating the poor profs and it makes me sick to my stomach. They need support. As an aside, Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park has a particularly virulent Republican high school group. My son, laughs at them but I told him they are dangerous!!!

as the last bastion of "liberal", ie independent thought. They control everything else, the presidency, the legislature, the judiciary, and the media. Acedemia is the last frontier for them. I don't think they can tolerate the existence of any social institution that isn't under their control. They are very totalitarian in their attitudes.

Their having a huge witch hunt here in Colorado over that Ward Churchill business. I know they're really going after academic freedom at the university here, with Churchill the focal point for their campaign.

I'm fortunately not feeling it at the little community college that I'm attending, but that doesn't mean that I won't later on.

That's really alarming that it's getting into the high schools now.

liberal perspective at RCHS he says they used to have a liberal group but not this year. The Repuke club is running rampant and all those kids who disagree with them make fun of them. I told him that's the wrong way to deal with these folks. I said, talk to the bravest liberal you know and change the name to the democratic progressives (as opposed to the repuke regressives) and invoke the name of Howard Dean. He was sleepy, and said, yeah uh, sure mom, like I'm going to do that... You get it? They are getting the most indoctrinated idiots to intimidate the kids who only care about school and prom and sports not sticking out from the crowd and cowing them!!!! This is scary nonsense!!! How do we beat it!!!!

student groups the same way that wingers do. We're at an extreme disadvantage in that they are highly funded and centrally organized, and liberal groups are just sort of ad hoc and on their own.

I really think we need to study and learn from the tactics of our opponents and emulate some of them. Not the brown shirt kind of stuff, but some of the funding and organizing tactics.

I hope you can get your son to actively stand up for liberal principles at his school.

What are the teachers like? Are they being intimidated by RW students, or are they RW themselves? I'd be curious to know what, and how, they're teaching.

He had the most fabulous 8th grade teacher. He was the classical liberal arts college professor and pushed these kids to think for themselves. To get into his class, parents had to commit to at a minimum, a field trip a month. The first field trip was a week in Ashland, Oregon, attending the end of the Shakespeare festival. It was magical. My son and his friends were transformed. I just don't have the time to go in to detail now, suffice it to say, his teacher's goal was to make Shakespeare's plays relevant to what was happening within the context of 20th century history. I think he gave these kids a gift.

He was shut down and this year teaches only math. Those silly test scores don't you know. The parents of the kids who clamored to be in his class turned on him when it became all about the "test" and not about actually learning stuff. That's what they are doing to our best teachers. Wonder why we have such a crappy system now? Look to the right wing whackazoids and I say that with absolutely NO respect.

I love Shakespeare. :( It's really sad how now days the parents of the right (the pro-Bush's that is) don't want people to think and learn about history, other cultures, etc. I'd rather have knowledge about things then worry about finishing the term and getting high test scores.

another thread about them trying to pass laws that keep the instructors from expressing their liberal views. This becomes less and less my country everyday. Is this what my ancestors fought for? Is this what I spent nine years in the Army for? Is this what my husband spent 20 years in the Army for? Is this why my son and daughter-in-law have been serving in and bringing "democracy" to Iraq and Afghanistan for? I don't think so. This has to stop and it has to stop now while it's still a "free" country.

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(especially the flyers on the draft)

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everyone is sleeping it off

I've made it through hundreds of flyers on car windshields at a campus near me with not a soul in site.

I'll bet they are actually hurting Bush more than they are helping him.

Are they being inciteful?

carrying their signs. Which they have every right to do. I think the marching in formation is what bothered me the most. I'm ex-military and one of the main goals to learning to march in formation is to learn to follow orders instinctively. The other goal is to get a large mass of people from one area to another in an organized, impressive and intimidating fashion. There weren't that many of them, 15, maybe. It's the lockstep mentality that worries me, and the "vengeful" God thing. Even though the two groups didn't appear to be related, the juxtaposition was eerie.

But I'm aboul fed up with people, and government trying to shove Christianity down my throat. I am NOT Christian, and I have a RIGHT not to be. I also have the right to not be harrassed or demonized because I am not a Christian. Unfortunately, it's the common practice of those out on crusade to be belligerantly religious. Ignoring outright any dissenting opinions, and demonizing those who don't assimilate to thier beliefs. I treat them no differently than I would treat military recruiter who gets in my face and calls me unpatriotic because I refused to enlist. It is essentially unwanted solicitation, and when the solicitor refuses to accept the denial of thier pitch, and they persist or become abusive in thier tone and manner, it is simply harrasment. Which in fact, is a crime.

How I deal with the more persistent of the bunch... well, for example, a couple years ago, I was coming off the transit on my way to work. A group of college age folks were gathered at the top of the escalator between the escalator and the exit. Buzzing about handing out pamphlets and talking with people as they left. As I stepped off the escalator one young man walked up to me with a pamphlet in hand, outstretched in my direction. I politely said "No Thanks" to him and went to walk around him. This little prick physically moved and tried to block my way to the exit, insisting that I at least take the pamphlet. I said, "Look, I'm not a Christian and am not going to take your pamphlet. Now please move, I'm running late for work." Hearing this blasphemy, several of his associates decided to join in and began a verbal assault. Many things were said, none of which we're positive statements. So I grabbed my camera phone and started taking pictures of the kids in the group. I "faked" a call to my work and said that I was going to be late because I had to go to the police station to report some kids at the train station harrassing people, myself included, and was going to go and press charges of harrasment, for thier unwarranted verbal assault, and kidnapping for thier attemp to phisically restrain me from leaving by blocking the exits. I stormed past them and walked out of the station. Before I even made it across the street, the kids had packed up thier stuff and left the station. I really didn't want to have to resort to it, but the manner in which they were doing things was totally inappropriate. Someone had to show them that harrasment is illegal, even if your trying to sell God.