Tom turned 50 today. It’s also John Lennon’s birthday – he would have been 67 (see post below). It’s a great day in my life……
For his birthday, I presented Tom with airline tickets to go to Georgia (Ft. Benning) for the annual CLOSE THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS event, where over 10,000 people annually vigil at the gates to Ft. Benning in an effort to shut down the “School of Assassins”.
Tom has always wanted to go to this event (as have I!) and so it will be reality this year!
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Today Tom and I watched the film Hidden in Plain Sight, the documentary that looks at the nature of U.S. policy in Latin America through the prism of the School of the Americas (renamed, in January of 2001, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), the controversial military school that trains Latin American soldiers in the USA.
Despite what supporters say of this school, it is a terrorist training camp. One of the arguments made in support of the WHISC in the film is that the personnel from Latin American countries that attend the school who are identified as brutual murderers of their own people are already criminals in their country and the U.S. training they receive has no bearing on what they will do when they return to their countries. My question, then, is if these attendees are already known criminals, why are they permitted entry into the “school”?
Whenever I view films and participate in other events that surround issue of closing the School of Assasins, I strenghten my interest and resolve to travel to Ft. Benning, GA in November during the annual vigil and direct action event. I am hoping that I will be able to make my schedule such that I will be able to go this year.
Watch the 4 minute film of the November 2005 vigil.
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Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 