Abstract:
Students attempted stunts on professional BMX bikes yesterday in Risman Plaza - but they were no comparison to the real stars of the event. The National Guard BMX Freestyle Freedom Tour '08 brought professional BMX riders Ryan Jordan and Brett Walker, who did jumps, spins and flips during four 15-minute shows throughout the six-hour event....
T King
posted 9/24/08 @ 9:40 AM EST
That the Guard and the Military have to resort to these spectacle events to attract folk to their organizations isn't news; perverts offering candy have been seducing children throughout human history, and after all, how many folk would sign up for military service if the event showed the corpses, the body bags, the maimed and mutilated, and the billions of dollars of resources and material blown up, burned, and dumped in the desert?
When students educate and organize themselves to protest these events, _that_ is news worth reading.