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Time to Kill Draft Registration

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-- Mori-Nu (silkenet@yahoo.com), August 12, 1999

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Agree. The draft is immoral. Any country whose citizens won't volantarily defend it doesn't deserve to survive.

-- (kozak@formerusaf.guv), August 12, 1999.

If martial law comes, expect to see a renewed draft.They're going to need lots of young troops to patrol the cities. Will also help to relieve unemployment after the crash!And for the rebuilding of the infrestructure,after the nationalization of key industries; could be lots of programmers, engineers, utility workers, medical, police and emergency workers, mass transit, railroad and trucking, oil and chemical workers "drafted" and told, " you WILL show up for work, you WILL NOT bug out for the hills. You are subject to military law. To disobey will be tantamount to desertion during time of war. Can't happen here? We'll see!

-- Ralph Kramden (and@awaywego.com), August 12, 1999.

It's already law. Check out http://forums.cosmoaccess.net/forum/survival/prep/exorders.htm to get a better perspective on "what could happen".

-- Alex Stuart (Hensiarad@aol.com), August 12, 1999.

One of the best anti-draft songs out there is by the Dead Kennedys / Jello Biafra. It's called, appropriately enough, "When You Get Drafted."

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), August 12, 1999.

"A person should not be forced to fight for something that they don't believe in"

-William Jefferson Clinton

1968, during the Vietnam War, in response to the Draft.

-- (Oh Bubba@ your such a. weasel), August 12, 1999.

I joined, years ago, to get my choice of branch of Armed Forces, rather than being drafted into (likely) the Army. Knowing what I know now, I would have EVADED; I'd be in Canada or someplace.

-- A (A@AisA.com), August 12, 1999.

I have a potential solution...Lets do away with the age limit to join. Theres lots of talented, former GIs that would galdy reinlist. As long as they could retain former rank, and do Y2K duty only in there area. Get paid, get fed, get armied, get power..

-- Les (yoyo@tolate.com), August 12, 1999.

Either EVERYBODY goes, or only volunteers go. It is immoral to put the burden of defense on the "poor" (varied term) when the wealthy have more at stake in America. I am half a Libertarian (like being half pregnant) and I don't care for mandatory anything, but if we do have to go back to the draft I feel we will have a better, stronger citizenry AFTER their service. The military experience was always a bonding one, esp after WW II, and I can't tell you how it cut me to the heart to be interviewed for a job by some young pup...who would have done the ROTC thing rather than the draft and been a pretty decent officer...look at me with blank stupidity and say, "Oh, you're a Major? Is that higher than a corporal?"

-- Mr. Mike (mikeabn@aol.com), August 12, 1999.

I support a draft, in theory, if certain conditions are met. 1) that we have moral leaders, who will not engage in imperialistic adventures for corporate gain, and who will send their own children too. 2) that people not be forced to serve in combat units if their conscience won't allow it (much like the objectors provision that is already in place) 3) that it be totally fair (ie, none of this crap that the rich largely evade it, and the poor get to go).

Having said that, I doubt that those conditions would be ever likely to be satisfied. So, unless the nation is under direct military invasion, I won't go.

If they can't find you, they can't make you go. Good time to hit the woods for awhile, or go super low profile.

-- Bill (billclo@msgbox.com), August 13, 1999.