Creeping (and Creepy) Militarism in Our Public Schools

Thanks to Truthout I have today become aware of recent efforts to step up efforts to establish more military public schools in the United States. This is a trend which deserves the closest scrutiny with an end toward abolishing such schools. Just as a permanent standing army should never be accepted policy in America, so permanent military schools should be off the table.

We must return to the vision of our founding fathers. Their vision was of a republic run by the people. What we have is a permanent war economy with a muscular military presence propping up the failed financial system. None of this has anything to do with a democratic republic. I am aware these are seemingly bold comments. Yet if one studies history, these are the inevitable conclusions.

This, then, is something of a backdrop for my criticism of so-called public military schools. The article referenced presents a typical journalistic false balance to this issue. But contained within this false balance is information which should concern every lover of democracy in America.


http://www.truthout.org/060409EDA