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mistermasan
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| IIRC, if someone under 18 wants to enlist a legal guardian has to sign permitting such. i knew guys who were 17 and a half in boot camp. they did fine. |
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greedy_bones
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
Location: not quite sure anymore
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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| R. S. Refugee wrote: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
A few problems with the article:
(a) It claims that the family was harrased by a "relentless barrage of calls". What I would like to know is: Why did they have his phone number in the first place? .... |
High schools are required to give military recruiters the home phone numbers of all their students. |
Now you know what they had in mind when they called that legislation the No Child Left Behind Act.    Or was that the No Cannon Fodder Left Behind Act? |
High Schools have been giving out phone numbers to recruiters long before the Bush administration. It was no big deal at my high school, but that was because they informed us and made it easy to remove our names from the list. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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| The recruiters put the boy in a car and drove him to another city, without informing his legal parent who had responsibility for him. |
People have been convicted of the crime of kidnapping for just such behavior. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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This article is ridiculous. The kid was smooth-talked by a couple of Marine recruiters, caved into the pressure, and his mom was delirious. I truly and honestly think that the only one who could be the "wrongdoer" in this story is the mom.
When I was in high school, we also had Marines calling each of us. Everyone knew that all you had to say was that you had used an inhalerfor asthma in the last 8 years. That would get the Marines to hang up in seconds. Or you could tell them you had just joined the Army and already signed the papers.
The kid doesn't have a father. The Marines know he needs a masculine role model in his life and they're playing that up. So what? That's what recruiters do.
Don't you remember: "Yeah, in Korea you'll be a teaching assistant after a month of teacher training!" That's the line I was given! |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| bacasper wrote: |
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The recruiters put the boy in a car and drove him to another city,
without informing his legal parent who had responsibility for him. |
People have been convicted of the crime of kidnapping for just such behavior. |
Can anyone do this, or are marine recruiters "special"?
How do i become above the law? What's the secret? |
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ersatzredux
Joined: 15 Dec 2007
Location: Same as it ever was, same as it ever was
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
| bacasper wrote: |
| The Bobster wrote: |
The recruiters put the boy in a car and drove him to another city,
without informing his legal parent who had responsibility for him. |
People have been convicted of the crime of kidnapping for just such behavior. |
Can anyone do this, or are marine recruiters "special"?
How do i become above the law? What's the secret? |
Easy. Put on a uniform. North Americans are conditioned from early childhood to think that the man in the uniform IS YOUR FRIEND. You trust your friends, don't you? You'd trust a good friend on a handshake deal, wouldn't you? It would be, well, just rude to drag all those "laws" and "procedures" into such a relationship. No- good people trust those in authority. They are our friends. |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm from the government. I'm here to help you. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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The "handshake" part of things is often a dead giveaway.
PARAPOLITICS
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| The term is used to describe either covert political activity that is hidden from the public or a complete (de facto) political system hidden from the public; political actions of subterfuge, secrecy, and deceit; and is increasingly used in discussions on democracy to describe coalitions of institutions and corporations who operate above or outside of the "elected" government. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapolitics |
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