Posted on 09/10/2004 9:07:35 AM PDT by antifem
Mandatory draft on the horizon
by Unknown August 11th, 2004
Mandatory draft for boys and girls
PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION!
Mandatory draft for boys and girls (ages 18-26) starting June 15, 2005, is something that everyone should know about. This literally effects everyone since we all have or know children that will have to go if this bill passes.
There is pending legislation in the house and senate (twinbills: S89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft can begin as 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.
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:
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!
This legislation is called HR 163 and can be found in detail at this website:
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Just enter in "HR 163" and click search and will bring up the bill for you to read. It is less than two pages long.
If this bill passes, it will include all men and ALL WOMEN from ages 18 - 26 in a draft for military action. In addition, college will no longer be an option for avoiding the draft and they will be signing an agreement with the Canada which will no longer permit anyone attempting to dodge the draft to stay within it's borders. This bill also includes the extention of military service for all those that are currently active. If you go to the selcet service web site and read their 2004 FYI Goals you will see that the reasoning for this is to increase the size of the military in case of terrorism. This is a critical piece of legislation, this will effect our undergradates, our children and our grandchildren. Please take the time to write your congressman and let them know how you feel about this legislation.
www.house.gov www.senate.gov
Please also write to your representatives and 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 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 www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html to view the Selective Service System 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 permanent state of war on terrorism) proves accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
www.hslda.org/legislation/national/2003/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 your friends
Contact your legislators and ask them to oppose these bills
Just type "congress" into the aol search engine and input your zip code. A list of your reps will pop up with a way to email them directly. We can't just 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 grandchildren.
this calls for the 'aww not this sh*t again' picture.
The only proposals for reinstating the draft have been made by DEMOCRATS in order to scare voters.
Period.
Oh, brother.
Only stupid people fall for this crap. The Pentagon has been on record as saying they don't need the draft. They don't want the draft. They are MORE than meeting recruitment drives.
Now THIS is a troll post. Mine was just a dumb mistake.
It is total BS...two bills are being floated by Dems, but they even admit that it is political in nature and the bills will go nowhere. I will go out and find my last post on the subject and post it here.
It's complete BS. There are no plans for a draft and the only (mostly unsupported) bills in Congress are sponsored and backed solely by Dems the likes of Rangal(sp??). Just another scare tactic.
I know some nice gentlemen from Nigeria who would like to reward you handsomely if you help them put $16 million in your bank account...
A Democrat proposed it in Congress. It is not going to happen. No chance at all. But the Democrats are using this to lie to young kids especially at the college. It will swing them to vote Dem and also make them turn out. Dems know it is a lie, but the youngsters are pretty easy to manipulate.
HR 163 was proposed by a group of liberal Democrats so that they can say that it was introduced. It is not "winding it's way" through either chamber of Congress, it is tabled in a committee and doesn't have a snowballs chance in a Houston summer of making it out of committee alive.
Scare tactics, fake memos, and outright lies are all the Democrats have to offer the American people.
You know him too? Nice fellow, took only $20,000 from my account. But I am pretty excited about collecting that $16 mill....
I think the posting of unsourced e-mails has been discouraged.
I am not aware of a Republican who wants to see the draft return.
I am aware of Democrat voters who oppose Bush because "he'll bring back the draft". Dems are idjits, you see.
The only thing you need to know about this bill:
It's sponsored by Charlie Rangel
My highschool age kids have heard this and give it some credit, and so does their mother to some extent.
Put yourself in their shoes. When you were 18 the thought of the draft could be pretty scary.
This is, as earlier posters have said, DNC disinformation of the worst kind, but it's effective, unfortunately.
Kind of like the phone calls to seniors saying that Bush will chop their social security. Maybe they don't believe it, maybe they're confused, but it IS pretty scary.
The Democrats are scum.
"by Unknown August 11th, 2004"
Your first clue.
In related news, Bill Clinton just bought a house in Montreal.
Snopes is a wonderful site: http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/draft.asp
Yeah, and it's smart to rob a bank in broad daylight because everyone will be too busy looking at the broad daylight.
Listen. There is no draft.
No one besides the Democrats wants to discuss reinstating the draft.
Let it go.
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