military.com — "The Senate's senior defense spending member asked Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen if it is time to "consider reinstituting the draft." From someone who remembers the '70's and witnessing the anguish of male friends (and their families) receiving their draft numbers,please, please let's not go there again
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jkapMay 22, 2008
Ronald Reagan said it best:"Conscription rests on the assumption that your kids belong to the state. If we buy that assumption then it is for the state — not for parents, the community, the religious institutions or teachers — to decide who shall have what values and who shall do what work, when, where and how in our society. That assumption isn’t a new one. The Nazis thought it was a great idea. "America was founded on the principle of individual liberty — that the government exists to serve, not enslave, the people. Yet conscription is a form of slavery, a horrible and costly exception to America’s founding principle. It is morally repugnant to the ideals of a free society. "Without the draft, unpopular wars are very difficult to fight. The ability to use conscription actually encourages politicians to wage even more wars — the massive resources are a temptation that is hard for the war-lover to resist. When the draft was finally undermined in the 1970s, for example, the Vietnam War ended."I say that the draft is unconstitutional, just like all of these framed-up and engineered "wars" being waged against humanity by a/national corporate-socialists, amoral imperialists, and supranational banksters that have hijacked our rightful Constitutional Republic. To hell with the War Party, their fraudulent left-right hoax, their economic ponzi scheme/monetary system propped up through military Keynesianism, their hyper-interventionist foreign policy/diplomatic isolationism and their draft. They won't be conscripting me. They won't alienate my God-given rights.
Closed AccountMay 22, 2008
McInsane will need a new, expanded Army when he "bomb bomb bomb's Iran". Remember, Bush gave him a hug! The only difference between the three "leading" candidates, are age, sex, and race. Their policies will be "new boss same as your old boss".Don't blame me, I voted for Ron Paul.
neoconned08May 23, 2008
can you say insurrection of epic proportions???