According to court documents, Zabala said he was appalled by the "blood lust" of one officer and broke into tears when shown pictures of dead Iraqis. He said his informal study of Buddhism led him to a belief in the "sanctity of life."
Blood lust? Tears? Sanctity of life?
The military exists for 'precisely' two reasons, to kill people and break things. Nothing else. What did this guy think he would find? Candycanes? Unicorns?
Reading the article, he seems more intent on getting free press from this.
UPDATE: Found a non-registration article on this story. Ye Gods this Zabala is dense.
"This organization trains to kill human life." - Zabala
How, in the world, does someone not know this about the USMC? Perhaps he should have taken a moment to read up on them? And I'm not sure how he can reconcile his fake shock at boot camp with the Marine concept of every Marine being a rifleman. What does Zabala think rifles are for? Holding flowers?
Of course, maybe he could have just asked his family.
Zabala's grandfather served in Vietnam, his parents and uncles were in the Navy, one cousin is in the Air Force and another cousin is the Marines, according to Collier.
This is either the densest lump of humanity to come out of UCSC in some time, or one of the savvier self-promotion people around. Given the poisoned atmosphere, I'm voting for the latter.
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