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> LOS ANGELES, California, USA, October 20, 1998 (U.S. Congressional Press
> Release) - Hundreds of 11 to 13 year old students living in working class
> neighborhoods of Los Angeles are being targeted for a program which
> requires students to attend a military-style boot camp at Camp San Luis
> Obispo called Angel Gate Academy when they would ordinarily be on vacation.
> Under the program, anyone with brown skin has been classified as an "at
> risk youth" and their parents, many who are immigrants from countries with
> military and police terrorism against civilians, are being told that
> attendance is "mandatory" even though the program was officially described
> as "voluntary" by its sponsor, U.S. Congressman Julian Dixon
> (Democrat-South L.A.). To blunt criticism, the program is being sold as
> remedial math and science classes. None of the participants was sentenced
> to the boot camp by a judge and none have broken any law as with a boot
> camp in Arizona where negligence recently killed some of the young
> prisoners who were California residents. However, they are being compelled
> to participate in military-style regimentation, drill and behavioral
> conditioning exercises which are designed to discourage individuality and
> encourage them to enlist in the military when they get older. During this
> four-week "emersion" program, students are watched and told what to do
> 24-hours per day in a manner resembling military recruits or prisoners,
> even though they are highly impressionable and emotionally immature
> pre-teenagers, most of whom have never been away from their families
> before. The presumption of the program is that Latino pre-teenagers will
> become "juvenile delinquents" if they don't receive military-style
> indoctrination.
>
> The boot camp is funded by $4.2 Million from the Defense Department budget
> and is administered by California National Guard troops who are neither
> qualified teachers nor given any background screening to protect the
> children from the possibility of abuse or neglect. Julian Dixon has used
> his position on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on National Security
> to sell this program as an essential contribution to "national security."
> Fiscal Year 1999 will be the SIXTH consecutive year this program has been
> forced upon Latino youth in Los Angeles. Local community organizers have
> repeatedly voiced their outrage at the tactics being used to coerce
> students into going to boot camp, but they have been largely ignored by
> the Los Angeles Unified School District and the California National Guard
> which are implementing the program.
>
> EDITOR'S NOTE: This program closely parallels the use of corporate funding
> to establish High School Police Academy magnet schools at High Schools in
> the City's Latino and African American neighborhoods. Like the Hitler
> Youth in Nazi Germany, it suggests a conscious effort by the government to
> pre-determine the values and behavior of working class youth at an early
> age so they will grow up to be the gung ho "loyal party members", police
> and military troops of the future. Like the Hitler Youth, it is the
> government's preferred alternative to funding adequate public education and
> giving people the chance to have a job which pays a living wage when they
> grow up.
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