Via Common Dreams:
Students at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High School are waging a war on peace.Recently, sophomore Skylar Stains decided to hold Peace Shirt Thursdays at the school. Skylar and her friend, Lauren Lorraine, started wearing peace shirts and soon recruited more friends to wear them. Now, the “Peace Shirt Coalition” as they call themselves, has close to 30 students from all grades.
Students started approaching the group members, yelling obscene things at them, said Lauren.
Lori Masterson, assistant principal at Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High, said by law, the administration cannot discuss specific discipline dispositions for students but that the school works with teachers and coaches to make sure all students on campus are safe and treated fairly. “As of this writing, to my knowledge, no one has submitted a written proposal with an identified sponsor for a peace club,” Masterson said in an e-mailed statement.
But peace group members said they have submitted a written proposal and had a written sponsor, but they were recently turned down. Read on…
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Frist! The n00b wins! Oh, and in Soviet America, peace shirt wears you!
Better clamp down on those students, fast and hard.
‘Peace’ is treason in Bush’s Amerika.
I wonder if the students yelling obscenities at the kids wearing the peace shirts
are willing to sign their asses up for the Iraq war/occupation as soon as they
graduate?
As Ava Lowery says…Peace takes Courage!
Good Idea Dana!
This is a zero sum - get rich - stand on your neighbors neck - keep your money for yourself - stay on your side of the goddamn fence - christian - kill em … kill em all - me first, fascist country.
… and schools rejecting peace groups surprises you … why?
Do you understand just how lost you are? Do you understand … NOW … the consequences of allowing fascists to spew their bile for the last 40 years unopposed? Their wacko self serving lies are now self evident truths. Say otherwise … and you will just be seen as nuts.
Conservative == good christian values, strong, self reliant.
Liberal == tax, spend, giveaway, public dole, weak.
Peace == surrender to Islamic extremists
War == doing God’s work - justice
The phrase a day late and a dime short comes to mind.
When I talk about war, I really mean peace.
-George W. Bush
There are no words. But it does make me feel a little sick to my stomach.
a friend’s daughter tried to start a gay/lesbian/bisexual tolerance group at her H.S….took 2 years and board approval to get it done. Principal went ape-shit…but justice prevailed :)
kiva
in regards to the kids yelling obscenities….that is why we need to reinstitute the draft
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Good for them. Good for the students who held the signs in Gonzalez’s face during his speech.
During the last Gulf War, one of my son’s classmates (they were in grade school) felt so strongly that he spent every recess picketing the playground with antiwar signs. My son said he heard the teachers discussing what, if anything, they should do. They finally just let him picket (which is what they should have done). Even students should have the right of free speech. We should be happy they care about something outside themselves.
So the childgren that were being threatened are the ones being punished. Makes complete sense.
Y’know, the next time a shithead Fundy pulls the “The Bible is the answer” on me, I know of a good reply.
anon @ 5:
exactly true…which is why i get pissed off when people make comments that this site and john need to stop commenting on the likes of el druggo, lufa boy and others
these people have been indoctrinating our youth
Yes, I’m sure these people who are screaming at them are just waiting for graduation so that they can join up and serve. . . the College Republicans. . .
The parents of the counter-peace kids must be so proud!
Flying the Confederate flag is supporting the Troops in Iraq? Swastika is a sign of Peace?
I think that the Peace Kids should hook up with one of the War Resisters like James Circello, Lt. Watada or Matt Howard and invite them to speak at their school. The kids that fly flags of Hate and leave tags of Genocide need a talking to. Thy are the fodder for the coming War with Iran. Poor kids, probably have some sick adults Parents.
Peace.
Bunch of Texan wannabes down in Fla. God damned stupid rednecks. Especially the idea that a Confederate flag is being displayed as a sign of support for US troops. Hey, you freekin’ morons, get this: The United States of America whupped the traitorous and illegitimate Confederate States of America. It was a total ass whuppin’ that resulted in unconditional surrender by the treasonous southern states on April 9, 1865. The Stars and Stripes - the flag of the United States - is the flag of our nation and our Armed Forces, flying the Confederate flag is an insult to our troops.
Geesh, I thought promoting peace would of been embraced by any school district because of the potential for violence in schools that has been prevalent in recent history….
Tragically, the violent reaction from this recent episode kind of underlines the need to address this very issue…
And the way the school district handled the whole thing just unbelievable….
It’s time to give up. The experiment called “The United States of America” has filled miserably. There aren’t many years left til everyone in the world see that this experiment has failed. In the article above -we see that an American school faculty leans towards the pro-war kids more than the pro-peace kids. They’re just for peace. They weren’t wearing anti-Bush shirts. Bush and Cheney will not leave office just because the law is two 4-year terms limit. They are staying. They don’t wanna leave. They’ve accomplished so many of their personal goals. There is so much more to do. They’re staying. Who’s going to stop them?? Who ??!!! Nobody ! The patty-cake dems support the republicans with the exception of Dennis Kucinich and a few others. The public isn’t going to force them out of the Whitehouse. Bush/Cheney/Rice will do what Mussharaf did in Pakistan. America will be THE Pariah nation of Earth. Only industrialized nation to not cooperate with the Kyoto protocol, used nuclear bombs against Iran and Japan. Started the GREAT MIDDLE EAST WAR OF THE 20th Century. Economic collapse is coming. Maybe Cheney will be living in Dubai or Saudi Arabia and he’ll be laughing while the impoverished people march into the rich American neighborhoods rampaging and raping. The police will not be able to provide protection. I guess that’s the USA’s karma. A republic built on land stolen from the indigenous people and industrialized non-stop fraud and by kidnapping Africans and enslaving them. With each passing day America is more and more alone in the world.
Ronin Tetsuro @ 14:
In most of the south and many rural areas of the northit makes perfect sense.
This is so sad. Something along the same lines happened in Nazi Germany. The Nazis let the old folks go to church on Sundays while they( the Nazis) indoctinated the children against the parents. The children would laugh at their parents and taunt them for being weak and praying for peace. It literally split families down the middle. All the more poignant because the German people loved their homelife and families.
To use adults as agents for war is one thing but to use children is especially abhorrent. The anti-peace children are only aping the vile garbage shoved at them daily by our mainstream propaganda machine. It is as powerful as the message of a cult.
This points up the fact that the problem with US schools is not the students, it’s the administration.
And the Florida teachers and administration have a wonderful policy:
‘KEEP PEACE OUT OF SCHOOLS’!
They must be CrazyChristianEvangelicalFundamentalistBornAgainBoobRapturistWarMongeringZionists, professed followers of ‘the Prince of Peace’?
Well I guess my buddies in the long forgotten Korean War
were wrong to hate where we were & prayed for peace.
Gee- I guess we were wrong back then. War is fun. :-(
klyde @ 23:
Similar to what the Saudis do to rape victims. Must be a fundamentalist religious thing.
What happened at that school seems as if it could have been influenced by Orwell’s Hate Week in his novel 1984. One of the more frightening aspects of that story was when one of the students had her “Wage Peace” sign replaced, apparently in all seriousness, with a sign that read “I Love America Because America Loves War.” As someone else observed, this also could have been right out of Nazi Germany as well as from an episode of The Twilight Zone. Unfortunately, perhaps this reveals how militaristic this country has become over the last fifty or so years, as evidenced by the top three democratic presidential contenders advocating that some troops should remain in Iraq by the end of 2013 while the peace candidate, Dennis Kucinich, has been overshadowed by his pro-war enthusiast colleagues.
Goebbels would have been proud. It’s obvious these reich-wing NAzi youth get this type of behavior from their parents. Where is the fake outrage from the ‘culture warriors’ of faux and a.m hate radio?
This is not just isolated in Fla. Take a peek at what is going on at your local school and you will see miltarism is much more common than any compositions for ‘peace’. It is also happending in other nations, like Japan and Korea. This propaganda, is in fact, aided and abetted by NCLB. But talk to George Miller or the AFT or the NEA about miltiarism on school campuses and you get a look like you are an irrational misfit.
But here and there, students and teachers are resisting this militarist, xenophobic brainwashing. Students need to voice their dreams, and teachers need to take control of the curriculum (from NCLB.) And unions need to get on the anti-war progressive grassroots train… ‘cuz we ain’t slowing down.
You wouldn’t want to discipline the foul mouthed louts now would you. The educators seem to always take the easy way out.
Peace is a trouble maker, but symbols of racism, hate, and slavery is good. ….only in reich-winger world.
I moved to central Florida (45 minutes north of this high school) in 1982 from Michigan one day before school started. Walking up to the school on that first day I was surrounded by a group of rednecks who wanted to know who I was and where I was from. Not knowing any better, I told them Michigan, and promptly had the shit kicked out of me for being a “yankee”. I had no idea the civil war was still being waged, but to these guys, I was the enemy.
I’m not sure, but I imagine this story could happen in any small town school in America right now. Wanting peace is viewed as weakness. If this were a group of boys they would be confronted with violence. The ignorant have a small menu to choose from when confronting something they don’t understand. Bumper sticker slogans, threats and violence are the most popular choices.
Better start working toward your black belt.
We are a peaceful nation don’t you know?
Scott @ 35:
We’re not now. Watch out when the ignorant in this country start getting desperate.
Marcus Aurelius @ 20:
Right on. That was a God-awful ass kicking. I hope that they know that it can happen again. Charlie Daniels and Toby Keith are a couple of pussies.
Some students at a school I was at a few years back approached me about being the faculty adviser for a Peace Club they wanted to start. I was told by an administrator to be careful because peace is such a controversial subject. I ended up getting labeled a troublemaker and was not asked to come back the next year.
This reminds me of what happened to our peace group in college during the Reagan Era. They’re starting younger these days, that’s for sure.
Hang in there, Peace Kids, don’t give an inch.
Call the school in protest. Demand an apology. Also demand that the pro-war people get suspended for their violence. We do have a no-tolerance policy towards violence don’t we?
Peace?? how anti-american can you get, anyone showing any signs of having a peaceful disposition should be instantly tasered and then some more ;)
welcome to the FSA - Facist States of America. ;)
I love how these dumbass kids don’t know the first damn thing about international relationship but they want to start a peace club, its the cool thing to do, way to go libs!!
Marcus Aurelius @ 20:
It’s easy to say shit like this and call Florida a “bunch of wannabe Texans”, but if you look at the fact that the real Republican base power in Florida is made up mostly of Castro hating Cubans and rich and/or conservative/evangelical Yankees (yes, I’m gonna use that word) and Midwesterners who move their pasty asses down to Florida, then the whole “God damned stupid rednecks” argument kinda falls away, doesn’t it? If you cared to take a fucking look instead of bash against anyone with a Southern accent you might realize this. Fuck you, Yankee.
Proud Liberal as Fuck Floridian (and I’m not the only one).
chris @ 42:
In other words, they are on par with herr dubyah.
chris @ 42:
So, do you have to know something about “international relationship” [sic] to start a pro-war club?
Don’t you love the pride the idiotic right-wing of this country displays because we no longer promote peace in the world. And they will still claim to be closer to Jesus. what a bunch of pigs!
Even back when John Kerry was running and people said they didn’t know if they could vote for him…I always said I would take a “War Hero” over a “War Criminal” any day of the week. but this is America and we like our dirty little wars!
Preacher Boob @ 2:
It’s never to early in life to learn what Amerikkka is really all about.
And it’s never to early in life to say, ‘Uh…no I don’t play that game, homey!’
Patricio @ 43: