JROTC Supporters Threaten JROTC OpponentsMarc Nortonbyline‚ Nov. 22‚ 2006"Hey you stupid hatin azz bitch!!! Better watch ur fkn bk ya dumbazz whore!" This was just one of the threatening MySpace messages directed at Mara Kubrin, a senior at Lowell High School, following the vote by the San Francisco school board to phase JROTC out of the City's public schools. On Tuesday evening, November 14, Mara presented a petition to the board opposing JROTC, signed by over 800 students. The next morning her picture appeared in the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, and the flood of threats began. "God you know how many people you have made cry & how many people hate you! & wanna Beat you up & Slap the Shit out of you!!!!" The Chronicle has editorialized that JROTC teaches "leadership skills and self-discipline." One of the program's supporters demonstrated that leadership, if not self-discipline, by drafting a bulletin with Mara's picture, calling her a "traitor," identifying her as a student at Lowell, and claiming that "by viewing this... [you agree] to release said author from all damages resulting from... any physical or mental damages resulting from violence" as a result of the bulletin. |