Matthis and collateral ignorance (UPDATED)
So, if you were a teacher and you invite a guest lecturer to speak to your students, wouldn’t you want them to be subject matter experts? Why would a teacher have IVAW Matthis explain the “Collateral Murder” video to his/her students then?
That’s what’s happening across the country today. Three people are touring the country and speaking at high schools in a program called “We Are Not Your Soldiers” – Matthis Chiroux, Robin Long and Emma Kaplan. Matthis and Robin Long refused to deploy to Iraq, Emma is a tool of Maoist World Can’t Wait. None of them has ever been to the wars, yet some teachers feel that they have the expertise to talk about the war to their students.
The result:
One young woman started crying, saying her dad was in the military and she wanted to join but now she didn’t want to. Matthis had asked a question and this young woman raised her hand and said, “My dad was probably in a helicopter like that killing children.
You should introduce your Dad to Matthis.
Matthis asked students if the Wikileaks footage looked like a combat zone – they answered “no” of course. He talked about being trained to shot people dressed as civilians, revealing this whole view towards the people of the Middle East. One of the students said “here, if you murder someone you get 25-life but these soldiers are getting away with it over there.”
With Matthis providing the context, instead of showing the entire video, what kind of response do you expect?
When Emma asked the students what they thought caused the war, a number of students said imperialism. This is definitely because at least one of their teachers has made a positive impact on them. He uses “A People’s History of the United States” in his classes and also talks about the present day wars. Another example of the power and importance of courageous truth-telling teachers.
Courageous teacher. Because he adheres to the party line. Sounds like Stalin’s USSR or Mao’s China or Fidel’s Cuba to me.
UPDATED: I noticed a list of speakers at the We Are NotYour Soldiers website, and noticed carl Dix was listed. I wrote about Dix last September. He’s the former president of the Revolutionary Communist Party (he’s still an active spokeman of the organization) and he talks about the war to kids in high school alongside Matthis and the other clowns. You’ll notice in the post I connected RCP to World Can’t Wait and IVAW.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Usual Suspects
No worries, kids–judging by the pic of ya’ll it doesn’t look like you would be able to get past the physical at MEPS. I’m just surprised how none of them questioned Mattis on how come he knew so much about “collateral murder” from a six-day stint in a FOB, or why he hasn’t turned himself in for raping prostitutes.
I don’t suppose we could get a tour schedule for these idiots in advance and write to the schools about who they really are.
Here’s their website, but they keep their schedule close to their vest. probably because they don’t want us to give advance warning. Apparently, it wouldn’t do much good, though judging by the teachers’ comments at the website.
I have to ask, is this for real??
If yes, every prudent parent should homeschool his/her kids.
The rest of my thoughts on the subject is one very loooong beeeeep.
How do they get away with this? IF I had kids in a school that they showed up at I’d be there to counter every lying point this idiot made. Any Kids Parent’s aware of this exercise in INDOCTRINATION?
If you’d like to contact the school where this took place you can do so right here:
SAN LEANDRO HIGH SCHOOL: 510-618-4600
Why is this being allowed in PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
People should call in.
Ah, San Leandro. Say no more. And dammed if I didn’t have some of those dipshit Kool-Aid drinkers for teachers when I was in high school back in the day.
So teachers bring in a notorious purveyor of mis- and half-truths to bash the military without anything remotely resembling opposition, and then the (alleged) educators are thrilled that the one-sided indoctrination works on some of the kids. That’s wonderful, just bloody wonderful…
It’s disgusting that we, as a society, have come to this point. Thomas Ricks, in the otherwise good “Making the Corps”, talked about the military, and the Marines in particular, becoming increasingly insular and antagonistic of civilian values. He didn’t spend nearly as much time on the subject of the rise of civilian groups that have made antagonism towards the military their sole raison d’être, preferring to belabor the military’s ever-growing unease with an ungrateful, uncaring, and self-destructive society as though opposition to society’s negative direction is a fault.
When the rest of society goes hurtling downhill into a morass of selfish, ignorant amorality, what reason has the military of degrading itself to keep pace? If Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen struggle to preserve what is good of our culture and this effort pushes them away from the average citizen, it is not our military that is at fault and in need of change. Wretches indoctrinating ductile-minded children against the most honorable institution left in the country are another matter.
Well then I guess they’re stupid, but not stupid enough to release their schedules, to bad.
And while the teachers may full well support them, I don’t think any of the school admins are going to like the complaints they’ll be receiving. Or if the school administrators are all for it, then hopefully the district would be willing to listen.
Either way I’ll be giving the school a call to voice my opinion. At the very least they should balance out what Matthis says.
The level of excitement in those photos is amazing.
The country is being destroyed by idiots from the inside. I still believe another civil war is coming and dipshits like these will be placed against a wall and shot, no trial required.
You can also contact the SAN LEANDRO SUPERINTENDENT at: 501-667-3500
How about contacting the local newspaper and provide the reporter with all the verified information? Seems something like this could shame the school district into acting against these teachers and “speaker” schedules. But among everything else, an admitted rapist in school doesn’t seem to be good for the pr.
Way ahead of you CPT Me.
I really would like them to come to my school, so I could kick the shit outta them.
Fuck the RCP. Also, Maoists should all listen to Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai, “Little Red Books”. It’s an amazing slam poem. “Is Mao as much of a genius when he tells you that your bourgie urban intellectual ass needs to stop reading books and go out to the fields and work? Did Mao experiment on your family to create a better world? Did you know that communism isn’t theoretical for everyone?” There’s more, go listen.
I’m in Finals week of my first semester as an RN student. Going back to school has been interesting in many ways, but the most startling thing has been realizing that the level of Socialist/Communist entrenchment is even worse than I suspected.
When I decided that I was returning to school to train for a second career, I made it my personal mission to use every opportunity to try and teach these young people about our military and why America is so great. The students are more open than the teachers.
It is flat amazing watching facts go in one ear and out the other – without registering anywhere in between.
How long do we let them poison the minds of our youth?
Fred re: #7
All you have to do is look at the school where this took place, as to geographical area, and it tells you all you need to know. San Leandro is in the Bay area in the land of fruits & nuts.
Matthis, you are sooo lucky that communism will never triumph in the United States. You’d be among the first to have a wall painted with your blood after your usefulness to the revolution reaches it’s shelf life….
“The school is extremely diverse: white, Latino, Black and Asian.”
I keep seeing a pattern when commies & other dipwads mention race:
“white” with a small ‘w.’ Everyone else gets a capitol letter.
Just one of the reasons I chose to come down South for recruiting instead of the East or West coasts. Every now and then I do a search for “counter-recruiting” and I am amazed by how much deceitful “information” is out there, and how many groups, from Quakers to anti-military to Communists, there are. None of the schools I visit would allow a group such as this inside their classrooms, and I have yet to meet a high school teacher that is not supportive of our military down here.
I hope that you folks are doing more than just complaining here on this site and taking action to contact the school.
SAN LEANDRO SUPERINTENDENT at: 501-667-3500
and
SAN LEANDRO HIGH SCHOOL: 510-618-4600
And yet when the National Heroes Tour was rolling along a honest to god hero was denied entry to his high school because they didn’t want to politicize the war.
The tour was in 2008 and Pete Hegseth was denied the opportunity to speak at his old high school.
One reason why they had problems is because they don’t keep their schedule a secret so people can get a heads-up and protest it. Notice how “We Are Not Your Soldiers” keeps thing very quite. They don’t want the counter-protest to take place because all you have to do is show proof that Matthis confessed to rape and was never deployed to any war. They sure as hell don’t want that.
I have now been in contact with the district super and the head of the social justice program where Matthis spoke. Also, Chuck Luther contact the Governors office about this as well.
Casey; this was a “social justice” program? Oh, f-ing great! Now they are starting to indoctrinate the kiddies in high school with their socialist/communist crappola. Leave it in the universities where it belongs.
Well, we do not know that for sure. I am going to give them a fair chance.
Thank you, Casey
Sometimes I miss my son very much in spite of what he says and does.
You should never let anything interfere with your love for your son regardless of how much you might dislike his behavior at times. The love is the most important thing; everything else is temporary and will pass…eventually.
There are things which cannot and should not be forgiven, regardless of who committed the act, stranger, friend or family. Sedition is solidly in that category. My father threatened to hit my wife 18 years ago, I haven’t talked to the son of a bitch since that day and I hope he dies in a fire. Forgive? Why should I give someone a chance to screw me a second time.
This man is not your son anymore sir.
You’re welcome. I am still in contact with the school and missed a call today. I am looking into if two employees where fired for sure.
Sorry, the above comment was me.
We Are Not Your Morons have removed any reference of San Leandro High School and pictures of students from their site. They have added new info to the same blog posting, but that is the update thus far. Feeling the pressure aren’t you, cowards?
Nice Casey. We’ll have to start calling you bird dog. BTW. I made my call…
Awesome that you called! I don’t know about bird dog, I’ll take Bad Ass though. hahaha
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