US Draft to start in Spring 2005??

[T'ai Ji Monkey]

Guys.

Found this on another Board and would like to hear your guys opinion if this is real or not:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/...ua_congressorg

Sounds like Draft dodging will also be tougher:
College and Canada will not be options.
Plus, women are also included.

Link in the article to the don't work, use the one below:
http://www.hslda.org/Legislation/Nat...89/default.asp

[yenhoi]

LOL.

The earliest the draft could possibly happen politically would be half way through bush's next term.

Get real.

Canada has said they would be home to draft dodgers just like last time. What they wont do is let deserters (AWOL) stay there.

Why are you so worried. Most Nations on earth have mandatory military service. This is not unusual for anywhere else on earth.

[T'ai Ji Monkey]

I am not worried, just curious.

FYI, already did the mandatory military service in my home-country.
Personally, I think doing a stint of mandatory military service is a good thing(2 yrs is a bit long), helps getting rid of some stupid ideas and behaviours that many young people got.

[Shaolinlueb]

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooo


that is all.

[joedoe]

I am safe since my health is so poor they would never take me



Oh, and I am not a US citizen

[Phrost]

Put on your tinfoil hats everyone, THEY are coming for YOU!

Dubious. Even so, I was a SGT when I got out, and did my full 8 years (7 and change active, the rest in Ready Reserve).

So too bad for joo!

[Starchaser107]

no one should be forced to fight for something they don't believe in.
thats just my opinion.

[Vash]

If it does happen, either sooner or later, I certainly hope there is a little box for "conscientious objector." I REFUSE to fight for this "War on Terrorism," or anything else that this administration touts as necessary for the common good, or whatever their tagline is these days.

Call me a coward, unAmerican, whathaveyou. This is a cause and a leader which I cannot support.

[kungfu cowboy]

First, the draft never really goes away, they only reveal it in times of "need".

Second, just because the universe formed, and you happen to be a product of evolution that has consciousness and resides in a particular part of the world with "society" and "politics", does not give someone the right to make someone go and "kill or be killed".

Lastly, once you run out of volunteers: "You lose: Game over, not (see above).

[SanSoo Student]

I wonder how the surf would be down in Baja....

We can hold an anti-draft party there.

[Phrost]

Anyone else find the irony in a bunch of martial artists being against war?

Martial: Of or relating to war.

[T'ai Ji Monkey]

Originally posted by Vash
I certainly hope there is a little box for "conscientious objector."

From what I read in the Bills it will be there, but mostly for religious reasons.

Check the 2nd link I provided the Bills can be found there.

This does NOT excempt you from doing your time, you might get either a civilian assignement(goverment job, postal worker, etc) or be assigned to a NON-COMBATANT role in the military which might be at the front(Potato peeling, Latrine cleaning, etc) .

In short if the goverment wants you for 2 years you have to give them 2 years, holding a rifle or not.

Check the link below for more Info:
http://www.sss.gov/FSconsobj.htm

[Christopher M]

HR 163 and S 89 were introduced by Democrats a year and a half ago.

It's utterly amazing to me how explicitly people are willing to lie for your votes and minds, not to mention how readily people eat it all up.

[kungfu cowboy]

I think a lot of people must have been sheep in a past life.

[Christopher M]

On the other hand, they're not being malevolent: socialists formally advocate revolutionary and infiltrationist strategies for siezing power and are repulsed at the notion of each individual informing themselves rationally and making their own choice - a model they criticize as 'individualistic' and 'alienating man from his relation to society.' So we shouldn't be surprised when they do exactly what they say they'll do.