World Can’t Wait/Drive Out the Bush Regime received the following letter from the parent of a student involved in an anti-war protest at their Chicago area high school.
Dear Friends,
This New York Times article is about my daughter, Barbara, and her friends
who helped organize and stage a peaceful protest against the war, and 37
of her dangerous conspirators who are being expelled.
Expulsion means that for 2 years the students can’t attend Illinois schools.
The superintendent locked down the school and called the police in for
safety reasons during the protest and to harass the students, whom he lied
to, although two weeks ago, that same superintendent decided not to lock
down the school or immediately call in police when a semi-automatic
handgun was reported by a student who saw another student with it.
Apparently, the police finally were called in after the handgun was
peacefully turned over by the gunman without incident.
Meanwhile, the Army recruiters continue to aggressively hunt down every
Hispanic male student as they enter the front door of the high school
(since the school is 80% hispanic) to promise them the world and then send
them to Iraq or Afghanistan to get killed for Bush’s Oil, but a peaceful
protest, in which the students cleaned up after themselves, is bad and
worth losing their high school education over.
Colombine good, peace bad. Now those black helicopters are coming after my
daughter! She’s not being threated with expulsion but was suspended for 5
days, because her GPA is too high and she is among the best students in
the school. Because the school is so poor, it needs to maintain the
highest number of students with high GPA’s to continue government support,
although the No Child Left Behind laws support the recruiters at the front
desk, for which the school also receives funds.
But I’m proud of her! I always wanted my children to attend school in Europe!
The story also was in todays Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, and on
the 6 O’clock news last night.
The decision for expulsion for the 37 students (and perhaps Barbara as
well) comes tonight.
I’ll be there with my characteristic mild-mannered way of asking questions.
Andrew Maniotis, PhD.
Program Director in the Cell and Developmental Biology of Cancer,
Department of Pathology, and Bioengineering,
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60617