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Originally Posted by Teri B.
Wow! It's one thing to be anti-war, but this is anti-military, and seems to me to be unconstitutional. Now cities can decide who's allowed to enter?
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Originally Posted by Jonesy
In this case, constitutionality depends on who is defined as the 'enemy'. I agree, neither Iraq nor Afghanistan are currently or ever were enemies. In this case, we are the enemies of ourselves... the institution is the enemy... or you could argue our 'ally' is actually our enemy.
Governments have no good reason to keep secrets. If they are being secretive, they're doing something wrong. Only the military needs to be secretive.
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Protesting is neither treasonous or unconstitutional.
However, in this case they are acting cowardly. They are cowards because just in case something happened on their campus, such as a bomb or an attack by a paramilitary political organization looking for an easy target, they would expect the government to come and liberate the students/faculty from the grounds and the citizens from the city. Should any group take a ridiculous stance like this, they should make sure they are ready to be ignored by the people they wanted ousted.