FW: U.S. Draft Expected to Start July 15, 2005 (Hoax E-Mail)

Internet | 5/17/04 | anonymous

[kaehurowing]

Subject: Draft Expected to Start July 15, 2005

The possibility of mandatory drafting for boys and girls (age 18-26)

starting June 15, 2005, is something, I believe, everyone should know.

This literally 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:

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 they can be a powerful voice for change!

Please also hahahahaha to your representatives to ask them why they

aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and hahahahaha 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.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html

Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year,

http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/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:

http://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.

[kaehurowing]

I received the above anonymous spam mail today. I checked on the Congressional website (Thomas) and discovered these are the draft bills introduced by the Democrats last year.

It's scary how low the Democrats are willing to stoop.

[cvq3842]

Horrible!

[clamper1797]

I keep having re-occurring nightmares about being drafted and sent to Iraq (not joking) ... it's pretty tough on this 53 year old Vietnam Vet .... HOWEVER .... if they needed me that bad .... I WOULD go ... even with my bad knee, my gout, and my hard earned beer gut

[Billthedrill]

Hey, I think I'll pass this off to a couple of Democrat friends under the title "See What Your Buddy Charles Rangel And The Democrats Did To Your Kids?"

I'll add that if they're nice to me I'll have my buddy George W veto the thing. Ought to be good for a couple of laughs. Mine.

Hey, what the heck, it's Monday...if I play my cards right I'll have the Zoloft and Prozac concession around here...

[Petronski]

The possibility of mandatory drafting for boys and girls (age 18-26) starting June 15, 2005, is something, I believe, everyone should know.

The possibility of mandatory drafting for all citizens age 9 to ninety starting tomorrow is something, I believe, everyone should know. The possibility is zero.

[Old Sarge]

Snopes is a Leftist site, run by avowed Leftists, who use the debunking of urban legends and hoaxes to promote the Leftist agenda.

They have already "de-bunked" the Clinton Body Count, and have posted a "Bush Body Count" linked to their site. Their web-blonde has been quoted as saying effectively, that they must oppose the Bush Administration to maintain their "objectivity".

I will never recommend that site to anyone, nor will I give them the Web hit they so depserately need.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

kerry's not going to win. Bush in a landslide.

[kaehurowing]

First thing I did was do a search on Snopes.com because it felt like a hoax. Nothing popped up, however.

So it's either new or they decided not to cover it.

[JOAT]

Why do think it's a hoax? Unless you just mean the timing. The bills are real.

Thomas

Type in HR 163 or SB 89 and read.

[Not A Snowbird]

Just looked up both bills. Sponsors are democrats (Hollings and Rangel), and are mired in committee. There are no cosponsors for Hollings bill, and 13 (all democrats, I think) for the Rangel bill. The usual suspects there, including Baghdad Jim McDermott and Sheila Jackson Lee.

This is really hateful.

[Not A Snowbird]

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.

This is the part that's the hoax. They make it sound like the President is doing this, when it's actually democrats that presented these bills.