Posted on 01/15/2009 7:48:28 PM PST by andrew roman
If not for the state of New York, one has to wonder how many blogs would actually be interesting.
The roll call here is illustrious - Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton, Eliot Spitzer, Caroline Kennedy, Michael Bloomberg so many names, so little bandwidth. Indeed, the Empire State is home to some of the greatest frivolity in the nation. Even relative newcomers like Governor David Paterson, with his proposed fat taxes and I-tunes taxes, are keeping blogger fingers rat-a-tat-tatting away.
One of my favorites is Representative Charles Rangel, the gravel-voiced dinosaur (or legend, depending on your perspective) from Harlem who once compared the Iraq War to the Holocaust. This is the same Charles Rangel who used a rent stabilized apartment in Manhattan as a campaign headquarters (a violation of the law), who was accused of using his official Congressional stationary to solicit money (also a no-no), and neglected to pay $75,000 in taxes on rental income. Did I mention his position as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee? And that he is currently under investigation from the House Ethics Committee?
Well, Mr. Rangel is back with an idea that is practically synonymous with him these days a military draft.
(Excerpt) Read more at romanaround.net ...
Socialism requires a slave army.
bye bye professional, high-tech armed forces
Typical Democrat who wants to toss the honor and heroism of our brave military volunteers in the trash to score some politic points with the Washington elite and the professional victims.
they should draft sharpton and send him to defend the nation that gives him this open forum to complain.
I just said this evening that if Obammy does away with “don’t ask don’t tell” that our all-volunteer military will drop like flies and the draft would have to be re-implemented. Now here it is.
Drafting recruits for Obama’s domestic security force?
B-But I thought we WERE pulling out of Iraq ... You mean Obama lied? Impossible!
It’s a Democrat nation now. Let’s draft Democrats to defend their country.
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Photo of Charlie Rangel at the podium of a March 19th, 2005 Workers World Party/Troops Out Now rally in Harlem, New York. The occasion marked the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. The photo comes from the Workers World Party website.
Also appearing at this "peace" rally with the demonRat Charlie Rangel, now chairman of The House Ways and Means Committee, were Saddam Hussein lawyer, Ramsey Clark and convicted terrorist enabler/attorney, Lynne Stewart. Clark, with Workers World Party, started up that other 'peace' group, A.N.S.W.E.R. Clark also heads the International Action Center and was actually once Attorney General of the United States under democrat LBJ.
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Here are a few not-so 'anti-war' statements from the Workers World Party front, Troops Out Now...
TROOPS OUT NOW: "It is time for the antiwar movement to acknowledge the absolute and unconditional right of the Iraqi people to resist the occupation of their country without passing judgment on their methods of resistance. Even the founding charter of the United Nations clearly affirms the right of an occupied people to resist by force of arms."
"We need to demand the immediate, complete and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. occupation troops from Iraq."
"We must support politically, morally and organizationally members of the U.S. armed services who are resisting the war, moreover, we must encourage this resistance."
"There must no longer be any hesitation on the part of our movement regarding our support of the struggle of the Palestinian people to free themselves from occupation. As a movement we have made a huge step forward in this regard. There must be no turning back."
"We must work to facilitate the widest unity between all of the forces that are seriously organizing against the war and occupation."
All of the above statements can be found at this Troops Out Now web page:
http://www.troopsoutnow.org/statements/outnow.html
Under his genius, poor black kids will be drafted whether or not they want to, get half the pay they can get now, learn nothing and for a treat play hide and seek with the newly inducted butt pirates.
They should draft Shapton and put him on the Army hockey team as goaltender. Just lay the fat bastard in front of the goal, sideways, and the Army’s goals-against would drop by 3 goals a game.
Remember this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1230938/posts
Somebody Feel a Draft? The politics of fear & division...
various FR links | 09-29-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
So, you think Rangel is taking a poke at O with this move?
I am having trouble seeing what Charlie is up to.
another debunked myth of the Vietnam era, and obviously a myth with our current forces.
Best regards, blu
“http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1230938/posts
Somebody Feel a Draft? The politics of fear & division...
various FR links | 09-29-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy”
<<Thanks for posting this.
Maybe then republican ideas wouldn't be so anathema to them, or their hippie-dippy professors.
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