Disgraceful

I usually try to refrain from posting about politics and in particular about elected officials. You know, the whole, "hand that feeds" thing... but in this case, I cannot restrain myself.

This case is the one of Presidential Candidate and Representative for Ohio Dennis Kucinich and his antics at Fort Benning today...
Via ArmyTimes.com

Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich joined thousands of protesters in a demonstration Sunday against a U.S. Army school that opponents accuse of fostering human rights abuses in Latin America.

Kucinich used the occasion to emphasize his opposition to the Bush administration for leading the U.S. into war in Iraq and now threatening to attack Iran.

“We reject war as an instrument of foreign policy,” the Ohio congressman told the crowd, estimated by local police to number about 10,000.

Kucinich said one of his first acts if elected president would be to shut down the school at Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains Latin American soldiers, police and government officials.

Yeah, yeah, this is America. Even a congressman has the right to protest the government, right? Just seems strange to me... even unseemly, for someone who purports to want to be my commander-in-chief to protest a military school, especially when...

[Monica] Manganaro [Ft. Benning spokesman] said visitors are welcome to tour the school.

I'd like to know if Kucinich has toured the school. He'd have better access than your run-of-the-mill visitor, he's a freakin' congressman! Be that as it may, how about being a responsible representative of the people and go to the school, if he hasn't yet, and get the tour, ask the tough questions, see for himself what is actually going on at the school. Talk to the students from Latin American countries and find out from them what the deal is. If he didn't at least do that, then pooey on him. I protest his protesting.

More, from FoxNews.com,

The protests outside the gate to the military installation are timed to commemorate six Jesuit priests who were killed along with their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador on Nov. 19, 1989. Some of those who killed them had attended the School of the Americas.

The military has acknowledged that some graduates committed crimes after attending the School of the Americas, but has said in the past that no cause-and-effect relationship has ever been established.

The new Western Hemisphere Institute has mandatory human rights courses, but the demonstrators contend changes at the school are only cosmetic.

Fort Benning spokeswoman Monica Manganaro said the protesters are "spectacularly misinformed."

Yeah, we saw that above. Heck, if our own congresscritters don't understand what the school is trying to accomplish, how can we expect people who don't lean left or right but are bent literally in half trying to contort reality into their vision of a torture pretzel... well, you know what I mean. Again, take the tour, get a clue.

So, here's what I propose: any school or organization that Mr. Kucinich and his protesting cohorts attend(ed) or belong(ed) to should be shut down if any graduate or member ever committed a crime. Since that is the contention, that the WHINSEC (previously the "School of the Americas") has graduates that committed crimes so then the school should be shut down, I submit that we apply the same logic to the protestors' organizations. So, starting with Mr. Kucinich, we must shut down the House of Representatives. Has there ever been a graduate of Cleveland State University who has committed a crime? Mostly likely yes, close that school too. Roy Bourgeois protested with Kucinich, and Bourgeois was in the Navy. Shut it down. I know for a fact that there have been a couple of Navy Vets convicted of a crime.

Ok, enough of the fantasy-land crap? Can we get back to reality? Enough with the pandering and protesting that which we know nothing about and let's get some real work done. Tell ya what, Bourgeois, want to protest the real source of Latin American criminals? Then go to those Latin American countries and protest outside the gates of their military sites. See what that gets ya.


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