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Teens Frustrate Military Recruiter’s ASVAB Scam

With MySpace.com bulletins and a handful of homemade flyers, two teens have struck a blow against the American Warfare State, Lindale, Georgia Division.On a Friday afternoon the 17th of November, 17-year-old high school seniors Robert Day and Samuel Parker decided to act after Day overheard some teachers at Pepperell High School saying that first thing Monday morning the school’s juniors would be made to take the ASVAB military aptitude test.

Often administered under the guise of a career aptitude test, the ASVAB’s purpose is to better equip the State to prey on young people tricked or pressured into taking the test. According to Debbie Hopper of Mothers Against the Draft, it is often given under the pretext of being a "career placement" test. (In some cases it has in fact been used that way, no doubt in an attempt to legitimize what many Americans regard as not legitimate: the use of government schools as military recruiting grounds.)

The school board answered a concerned email from Parker’s mother with a suggestion that the test is not mandatory but "customary." Sane Americans might ask, "Where, in Prussia?"

Though he would not be made to take the test, Day confronted the high school principal, Phil Ray, in defense of students younger than himself, and was told that the test was mandated by federal law. Day says he already believed that to be false, since he remembered the test being given only to the kids actually trying to join the military the year before. Regardless, the principal dismissed his objections. The juniors who were to be tested for their military "aptitude" were not to be told before the weekend.

Principal Ray did not return repeated calls to his office.

Not easily deterred, Day and Parker decided they would do what they could to "warn" the juniors themselves. They talked to a few kids at the end of school Friday afternoon, and over the weekend sent out more than 20 messages to MySpace bulletin boards discouraging cooperation. Arriving early Monday morning, Day and Parker picked out spots soon to be populated with kids waiting for the bell to ring, and with the help of some others who quickly volunteered, rapidly distributed their 200 homemade fliers to some and also spoke to many others, encouraging all to refuse to report to the cafeteria or to sabotage the test

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  1. Fucking gubberment youth indoctrination camps, er I mean public schools. How much you want to be
    that one day Parker and Day’s government masters will classify them as some sort of terrorists and
    send them on an all expense paid vacation to Camp Gitmo?

    Posted by Sol | November 24, 2006, 1:27 am
  2. Oh, and for all you fucking Democrats reading this, didn’t your boy Charley Rangel (remember, the brilliant one)
    vote for NCLB?

    Posted by Sol | November 24, 2006, 1:28 am
  3. Scott, have you seen The Ground Truth yet? I was planning on ordering it this weekend. It’s related to the recruting scam.

    Posted by mudshark | November 24, 2006, 4:08 am
  4. THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING… AND WHAT IS WORSE THERE IS NO SAFE HARBOR IN THE WORLD FOR POLITICAL REFUGEES FROM USA.

    Posted by Vee | November 24, 2006, 11:13 pm
  5. Mudshark,

    No I haven’t lemme know if it’s any good.

    Posted by Scott | November 25, 2006, 4:13 pm
  6. You guys know that this http://antiwar.com/horton/ was one of AWC’s most highly read articles ever? More than 50 thousand on the first day and at the very top of digg.com with near a couple thousand diggs – and that was without the built in digg this button.

    Posted by Scott | November 27, 2006, 5:12 pm
  7. one of AWC

    Posted by mudshark | November 27, 2006, 9:35 pm
  8. “You guys know that this http://antiwar.com/horton/ was one of AWC

    Posted by Sol | November 28, 2006, 12:28 am
  9. …My sincere congratulations too

    Posted by Mace Price | November 28, 2006, 3:28 am

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