Mollypitcher1

ROTC is an organization of criminals, a Brown University student attempting to get the group banned from college campuses claims. Peter Makhlouf, an opinion columnist at Brown University, stated in a Brown Daily Herald editorial that the Reserve Officers’ Training Corp wants to recruit “academically elite students” in a “calculated attempt to rope the best and brightest into the industry of state-sanctioned violence.”

The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is a United States Armed Forces college training program that also offers scholarship opportunities for members and career placement services. “The anti-military ‘bias’ that certain students have is a firmly grounded ethical stance — an insistence that we will not support the aggression of the United States throughout the world,” the Brown University student said in the editorial piece published last week.

Peter Makhlouf also claims that “police have committed criminal acts against protesters,” and the “overflow of military technology and funding has spilled into our police departments,” in an attempt to draw a correlation between the ROTC campus program and the alleged “militarization of police” in the America.

Makhlouf is also involved with Brown’s Janus Forum, a student group that promotes political debate on the Brown University campus.

An excerpt from the Brown University student’s editorial about the ROTC:

“At a time when we most need a brave intelligentsia to speak out against the craven acts of U.S. imperialism, the thought of extending the poisonous branches of the armed services to our campus should be wholly denounced. A November 2014 Herald article described the lack of military support on Brown’s campus. The article outlined how students considering careers in the military and participating in ROTC programs on campus feel marginalized by “the anti-military — and even hostile — stigma attached to ‘schools like Brown.’ Students anticipating careers in the armed forces outlined ROTC as one of their central concerns, and while ROTC is only one facet of military presence on campus, it is undoubtedly one of the most important. On Tuesday, the faculty endorsed a resolution to create a partnership between Brown’s campus and the Navy and Air Force ROTC programs.”

Edwin Portugal is also a Brown University student who participated in the campus ROTC program. Portugal is slated to graduate in 2017. According to Portugal’s comments during an interview with Campus Reform, students who have been involved in such organizations feel “unwelcome” on campus because of “the proliferation of such harsh anti-military opinions, like Makhlouf’s.”

Providence College, located two miles away from Brown University, is utilized by students from the Ivy League school. Brown University passed a series of resolutions during Vietnam War protests in 1969 that mandated the removal of the ROTC program on the campus. Brown University students reportedly cannot receive credit for the ROTC courses taken at Providence College.

How do you feel about the Brown University student’s views on the ROTC program and the desire to ban the U.S. Armed Forces group from college campuses?
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HOW MUCH MORE ANTI AMERICAN C*******T CRAP ARE WE GOING TO TAKE?

Comment Loc: California

That Human waste, B. Hussein OBGYN in possession of the WH shares that common thread.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

He will probably end up Obamas media czar.

cesspool jones Loc: atlanta

colleges like ivy league ones need to become front-line battlefields.

Mollypitcher1

You're right! Hurts to say it, because I'm an Ivy Leaguer, but the facts are that the Liberals OWN the Ivy League. Time to shout them down and stop any donations. Money still talks to deaf, dumb, and blind liberals.

chuck slusser

more socialist crap ..trying to tell everyone else what to do,,just pay back your school loan and get out of everyone's face...........why would anyone seek an education when they all ready know everything??????????

pafret Loc: Northeast

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Arrogant elitist garbage. Peter Makhlouf would apparently prefer that the defense of his liberty to spew such drivel is best left in the hands of those who are not as bright, to conduct wars in his defense. This is the same Nietzschean intellectual arrogance that led Leopold and Loeb to murder a child since they were so intellectually superior.

The military doesn't want dummies leading the defense of our country and each citizen should be of the same mind. Would anyone feel better knowing the officers leading the military were second raters, poorly educated or dim bulbs?

As with all l*****ts, hysterical unsubstantiated charges against the police are de rigueur. Yes there is a danger from over militarized police as well as governmental agencies but the left's incessant whining makes me believe Pete must have been busted for being a doper. He sure sounds like a dope.

I saw the results of compulsory ROTC in the fifties after having served on active duty for three years. I wouldn't trust some of those boys to lead me to the nearest bar. Fortunately, most of them bowed out after two years. However, some of those who continued in the program were of the same stripe.

The ROTC program is necessary but I would not be in favor of making it mandatory. Those who voluntarily choose to participate would make for a finer group of officer candidates.

Mollypitcher1

I'd like to think that being a part of ROTC has given a lot of young men an alternative path to walk down in their lives.

rebob14

"Brave intelligentsia"??? WOW!