military recruiters: just doing their job or going too far?

Although now we are all in college and it's becoming a bit easier to avoid the recruiters in the student union, the military is now (and has been for the past 3 years) taking extra steps in gaining new recruits. i know at my high school at least, dodging the "Be all you can be" crew was an everyday battle in the cafeteria and common areas. i actually even got in trouble for writing an article in our newspaper about the obnoxious tactics now being used to try pull students in. but either way, invading young people's privacy is becoming a common practice. and if i'm not mistaken, privacy is a human right ( at least according to "the list"). but i came across this article and thought it was definitely applicable to our class. now i'm not saying these recruiters are doing anything that's going to cause mass genocide or world hunger or anything of the sort, but they are certainly violating some lesser "valued" rights, like privacy. Raptivism.com is a good website to check out sometime if you have. Under "News" then "Politics" there are a lot of good articles and under "Factivisms" there are some really interesting facts from varying sources.

Some examples of facts that can be found there: "In 2001, there were 932,000 black children living in "exteme poverty" in the United States- the most since 1979" (source: TIME magazine)

and

"South Africa under apartheid (1993): 851 per every 100,000 black adult men incarcerated.
--In the United States under George W. Bush (2001): 7,226 per every 100,000 black adult men incarcerated."

have a good break everyone.
rachel