Anti-war hoo-haw junior

The Post:

Shouts of "Stop the War" rang through downtown Denver as 200 high school students walked out of class to protest the war in Iraq. . . .

"We don't want to fight because we want justice here," said Jazs Garcia, 17, an organizer of the march. "If we don't have justice here, how can we have justice somewhere far away?"

Two questions, Jazs: 1. You're an idiot. 2. How do you pronounce that goofy name of yours? Gar-CEE-uh, I imagine. Favorite quote:

People standing on the sidewalks along the march route respectfully watched the students.

They better have.



Our future: one in four will become a little Churchill.
Update: The story and pic are on the Post's front page. The Rocky seems to have missed it altogether. Go, as the old saying has it, figure.

Update (3/24/07): The Rocky gets around to it. Quote: "'It's an imperialist war based on manifest destiny,' said Julio Tapia, a student at Emily Griffith Opportunity school."

The tiny guy in the string tie at the top of that last link, by the way, is Tom Noel, "Dr. Colorado," who teaches history at CU-Denver. He's at least as much showman as historian, and, like Ward Churchill, quite prolific. The resemblance (except that both are white) ends there. Noel doesn't write much about smallpox-infected bankies. He's probably never said "U.S off the planet!" or "I bring you greetings from the Elders of my tribe, the Keetoowah band of Cherokee." He just writes cheery cheesy pop history that (usually) doesn't call for the violent overthrow of Empire. Churchill--and Noel's CU-Denver colleague Glenn Morris, for that matter--probably don't have much respect for him.