US MANDATORY DRAFT (m/f 18-27) for June 2005 ?

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From: Sophie Lapaire http://educate-yourself.org/cn/manda...g19mar04.shtml
March 19, 2004

I rarely send a mail to a large audience, but the possibility of
mandatory drafting for boys and girls (age 18-26) starting June
15 2005, is something, I
believe, everyone should know. This litteraly affects EVERYONE
since we all have or know children that will have to go if this
bill passes.

If there are children in your family, READ this.

There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills:
S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the
draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004
presidential election. The administration is quietly trying to
get these bills passed now, while the public's attention is on
the elections, so our action on this is needed immediately.
Details and links follow.

Even those voters who currently support us. Actions abroad may
still object to this move, knowing their own children or
grandchildren will not have a say about whether to fight. Not
that it should make a difference, but this plan, among other
things, eliminates higher education as a shelter and includes
women in the draft
--
Also, crossing into canada has already been made very difficult.

Actions, actions, actions:
P please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know,
and all the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And
let your children know -- it's their future, and theycan be a
powerful voice for change!

Please also write to your representatives to ask them why they
aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and write
to newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not
covering this important story.

The draft

$28 million has been added to the 2004 selective service system
(sss) budget to prepare for a military draft that could start as
early as June

15, 2005. Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31, 2005
that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for
activation. Please see website: www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
to view the sss annual performance plan - fiscal year 2004.

The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all
10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots
nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic,
military experts and influential members of congress are
suggesting that if Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog"
in Iraq and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on
"terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to
draft.

http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle5146.htm
www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html

Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year,
http://www.hslda.org/legislation/nat...89/default.asp
entitled
the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "to provide for the
common defense by requiring that all young persons [age 18--26]
in the United States,
including women, perform a period of military service or a period
of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and
homeland security, and for other purposes." These active bills
currently sit in the committee on armed services.

Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the
Vietnam era. College and Canada will not be options. In December
2001, Canada
and the U.S. signed a "smart border declaration," which could be
used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's
minister of foreign
affairs, John Manley, and U.S. Homeland Security director, Tom
Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan which implements,
among other
things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people entering and
departing each country. Reforms aimed at making the draft more
equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates higher
education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to
postpone service until the end of their current semester.
Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.

WHAT TO DO:

- Tell all your friends

- Call the Mercury News (Newsdesk) 408-920-5000

-E-mail the SF Chronicle at: Tbyrne@sfchronicle.com

- Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose these bills.
Barbara Boxer: 415-403-0100
Diane Feinstein: 415/393-0707
Anna Eshoo: 202/225-8104
Nancy Pelosi: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov

For the full list of representatives (53) and websites, go to:

ttp://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=ca


We just can't sit and pretend that by ignoring it, it will go
away. We must voice our concerns and create the world we want to
live in for
our children and their children's children.

Sophie Lapaire

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mockingbich
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PURE ELECTION YEAR BULLSHIT - this is old news that I am very familiar with. Before you all get your panties in a knot, understand this: H.R.163 is proposed by a black racist DEMOCRAT from New York named Charles Rangel. He says that there are too many blacks in the military and he wants more whites. S. 89—Universal National Service Act of 2003 is proposed by ultra-liberal DEMOCRAT Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. These 2 bills have no chance in hell of passing in a REPUBLICAN controlled congress. Even if Bush wanted a draft, he'd veto a democrat bill so they wouldn't get credit for it in an election year. In fact, Rumsfeld has stated categorically MANY TIMES that a draft is unnecessary because volunteer servicemen are better motivated and are career oriented. I come from 3 generations of professional military family and can testify to that! I'm not saying there won't be a future draft, I'm just saying these 2 bills aren't going to bring it.

[kazoone]

hopefully crap like this won't reach down under....