ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Defense Department spokeswoman Eileen Lainez said the data are used both to screen students’ enlistment eligibility and to determine their interests and skills for nonmilitary careers. Asked about criticism that the military is going around parents, Lainez said in an e-mail that “parents and other influencers are in the best position to help advise students of various career opportunities, and the pros and cons associated with each of the choices.’’
Do we really need to lay it out for you these days, kids?
They LIE YOU INTO WARS!
What more do you need to know?
Members of the Maryland Coalition to Protect Student Privacy, which pushed for the legislation, argued the military isn’t upfront about the test’s real purpose. Coalition member and high school teacher Pat Elder said he became involved in the issue after volunteering on a phone hot line for troubled soldiers. Many told him they hadn’t considered the military until a recruiter who’d seen their scores contacted them.
“I’ve spoken to ‘C’ or ‘D’ students who are called by a recruiter and told, ‘Dude, you’re really good at this kind of stuff,’ and that’s what it takes for them to join,’’ said Elder, who teaches at the Muslim Community School in Potomac, Md. “There is an insidious, psychological element to these tests.’’Yes, LYING YOUNG PEOPLE to their DEATHS for CORPORATE PROFIT and EMPIRE fits the description.
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And it ain't just the military you have to watch out for:
"Mother in starvation death gets probation" by Associated Press | April 22, 2010
BALTIMORE — A woman who starved her 1-year-old son to death at the behest of a religious cult leader was given a sentence yesterday that won’t require her to serve any more jail time.
Ria Ramkissoon, 23, pleaded guilty last year to child abuse resulting in the death of Javon Thompson. She admitted denying food and water to the 16-month-old child when he did not say “Amen’’ before a meal. Javon wasted away over the course of a week before his heart stopped.
That is a horrible way to die, and it is torture.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Timothy J. Doory suspended the balance of Ramkissoon’s 20-year sentence and ordered her to report to a residential treatment facility for young women. The treatment program includes Bible study, and Ramkissoon will be required to complete the program, which doesn’t have a specified length, before she can live on her own....
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At the time of Javon’s death, Ramkissoon was living with a small religious cult led by a woman who calls herself Queen Antoinette. She told Ramkissoon that the child had “a spirit of rebellion’’ inside him and that denying him food would cure him.
THEY ALL DO!
That is what BEING a KID is until adults drum it out of them and make them GROW UP!
That is why I am JEALOUS of KIDS NOW!
A jury convicted Antoinette, her daughter Trevia Williams, and another follower, Marcus A. Cobbs, of second-degree murder and child abuse resulting in death.
But NO MORE JAIL?
Ramkissoon’s attorney, Steven D. Silverman, said the swift verdict against Antoinette, Williams, and Cobbs helped his client understand what the cult had done to her and her son.
I don't know what to say. Just shaking my head.
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