Monday, December 12, 2022

High Schools Funneling Kids Into the Military

Editor's note: There is no end in sight for the complete militarization of American society. It is frighteningly comparable under the fascists in Nazi Germany when that country went collectively insane. This is fascism right in your face. Parents, protect your children. Educate them. The military shouldn't be an option.
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Military Groomers Are Increasingly Infiltrating US High Schools

December 12, 2022 | By Caitlin Johnstone
Protect your kids.

A New York Times report has found that enrollment in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC), a Pentagon-funded program designed to groom children for military service, is increasingly becoming mandatory in US high schools.

"J.R.O.T.C. programs, taught by military veterans at some 3,500 high schools across the country, are supposed to be elective, and the Pentagon has said that requiring students to take them goes against its guidelines," the report says. "But The New York Times found that thousands of public school students were being funneled into the classes without ever having chosen them, either as an explicit requirement or by being automatically enrolled."

"While Pentagon officials have long insisted that J.R.O.T.C. is not a recruiting tool, they have openly discussed expanding the $400 million-a-year program, whose size has already tripled since the 1970s, as a way of drawing more young people into military service. The Army says 44 percent of all soldiers who entered its ranks in recent years came from a school that offered J.R.O.T.C.," the Times reports.


And before you ask, no, the Pentagon's grooming program is not being forced on kids in Malibu and the Hamptons.

"A vast majority of the schools with those high enrollment numbers were attended by a large proportion of nonwhite students and those from low-income households," the Times reports, naming Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Oklahoma City, and Mobile, Alabama as cities where high schools are funneling kids into the program en masse.

Defenders of mandatory JROTC enrollment reportedly cite the need to "divert students away from drugs or violence" and "the allure of drugs and gangs" in urban areas, as though corralling them into the single most violent gang on Earth is a deterrence from violence and gangs. Grooming students to go kill foreigners for crude oil is not my idea of a healthy diversion from youthful error, but maybe that's just me.

Please go to substack to continue reading.
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Think about it long and hard before you say good bye to your children:


The Pentagon has been working to militarize the US economy:



Normalizing war:



The Pentagon has first dibs on "fairy dust" magic money to throw $400 million a year into their JROTC recruiting:

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