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Folks, please don't buy into any of this. Think for just a moment: does it make sense to you at all that the Russians would allow 3,000 soldiers to die from hazing each year? Of course not. Look at the source: the Mothers Right Foundation. During the Afgan War, many mothers in the Soviet Union united to protest and demand that their sons be sent home. This sounds like some sort of advocacy group that grew out of that movement. As in America, these advocacy groups tend to take on lives of their own, and extrapolate into fundrasinig machines long after the initial problem has ben either solved or shown to be bogus. remember the "missing children crisis" in the 1980s with pictures of missing kids on milk cartons? Turned out to be largely overblown; the kids hadn't been kidnapped - they were mostly the victoms of child-custody disputes. Remember the "3 million homeless in America"? Turned out that the advocate deliberately inflated the figures ten times over, justifying it by saying that "we'', we needed to call attention to the problem." In an American population of 270 million there were never more than 300,000 homeless, and many of them were the mentally ill, alcoholics, drug addicts and other lost souls. Remember the feminist proposition that emergency rooms saw more battered women on SuperBowl Sunday than any other day of the year? That was shown to be a complete and deliberate fabrication, and yet lazy or agenda-driven journalists still publish the lie. Gender feminists do NOT like big time football and they do NOT like fraternities, and all of us who are Greek better recognize the dangerous "advocacy group mentality" (anything you say is justified as long as it advances our cause) because we are in their sights. Remember back when MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) was a group of mothers trying to prevent drunken drivers from killing people on the highways? Well, now it appears that MADD has morphed into an advocacy group for whom "drunken" is no longer an issue. They seem determined to stop ALL drinking on the part of ANY vehicle driver, and they seem determined to punish anyone who enjoys a cocktail and then drives. For the advocacy groups, there is never a satisfactory solution. No matter what it is never enough, because the end of the problem means the end of fundrasinig opportunities.
So...please don't for a moment buy into the advocate fiction that 3,000 Russian boys are killed annually by HAZING, or for that matter any other reason absent a time of war. Beware of ALL advocacy groups, including the ones coming after fraternities.
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