Monday, October 24, 2005
Woooo! Stop the war!
It's always nice to see people predict things. I try to repeat people's predictions so that they can get their "I told you so" rights when they turn out to be absolutely correct, like Kamela Harris surely will be.
Over the weekend, we had some war whining thingie in town. As they said beforehand, it involved "all sorts of wackiness that should capture Berkeley students' imaginations for years to come." Isn't your imagination captured? Won't it remain that way for years? Just look at these people. Can't you see the intensity with which their imagination has been captured? Score another one for "accurate predictions."
In the "soon-to-be-accurate" category, we've got Snehal Shingavi, who's apparently on his way out:
We will put an end to military recruitment and stop the wheels of the military.
I'm sure his prediction will pan out.
"Military recruitment is done so that poor people are doing the dirty work for those who are rich," Shingavi said.
Wow! That's totally unlike normal employment.
A standing ovation greeted the next speaker, former Navy petty officer Pablo Paredes, who was convicted and sentenced for missing movement, for refusing to board an Iraq-bound ship.
Query: If you weren't willing to do whatever the government told you to do, why did you sign up for the Navy? Are you seriously proud of being a dupe?
"The military has been the single most innovative organization in the world and having military recruiters on campus will make sure that our military remains one of the biggest contributors to the intellectual community," said senior Amaury Gallais, a member of the Berkeley College Republicans, which squared off with the UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition last spring over the same issue.
Also last month, but who's counting?
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