Cocoa wrote a letter to the editor in the Northeast times. June 17th Letter to the Editor:
Put a chill on the draft bill
Just this week I received an e-mail so upsetting that I forwarded it to all my friends, who then forwarded it to all their friends. We are now a good size group. The e-mail concerned Bill S89 and HR 163. The bill is about reinstating the draft, beginning in the spring of 2005. The draftees will be all males and females between the ages of 18 and 26. There will be no deferments; seniors will be allowed to finish the year, and underclassmen will only be allowed to finish the semester. There is already a document signed between the U.S. and Canada, the “Smart Border Declaration,” which will prevent crossing the border. Since this is a federal bill, I was advised to contact Sen. Specter, Sen. Santorum and Congressman Joe Hoeffel. Sen. Specter’s office said that these bills are a “secret.”
When I told him that the cat was out of the bag, he offered to connect me with the Washington office. That office assured me that the senator was against this bill. I am still waiting for Sen. Santorum to respond, but Congressman Hoeffel is undecided. His office is sending me a letter detailing his thoughts. We are now in the process of collecting as much information as possible about this bill and the candidates.
We keep getting told that there are no sponsors for this bill and not to worry about it. But why did South Carolina Sen. Ernest Hollings draft this bill, and why is it sitting in the Senate? We think that it is important to find out before the election.
Meanwhile, we are starting an organization called Parents Against the Draft (PAD).
For more information, call me at 215-632-4997. Beverly Cocco Walton Park
Congressman clears the record
Beverly Cocco’s letter in the June 17 edition of the Northeast Times in which she expresses her alarm about a bill (HR163) currently in Congress that would reinstate the military draft contained a great deal of accurate information, but it had one major inaccuracy. Ms. Cocco wrote that I was undecided about the bill. I am not undecided. I am against the bill.
While I support the fight against terrorism, I do not believe that reinstating the draft or mandating civilian service is necessary at this time. I support the bill’s emphasis on civilian service, but I do not believe in requiring young people to perform civilian or military service. Instead, I support directing increased funding towards recruitment and retention programs in the armed forces.
Attracting and keeping the highest quality of men and women into the armed forces through increased pay, better career opportunities and enhanced benefits will guarantee our military’s continued ability to respond to threats against our country.
Additionally, I fully support enhanced volunteer opportunities for civilians and have been working with my House International Relations Committee colleagues to see that the Peace Corps budget doubles by 2006, and that funding for travel and exchange programs between young Americans and their foreign peers is increased. By enhancing incentives and increasing possibilities for engaging in volunteer service, we can improve our armed forces without reinstating the military draft.
Joseph M. Hoeffel 13th Congressional District Editor’s note: Rep. Hoeffel is the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
Repeating "Sparrow Fall's", a blogger: "hmmm! what's that D there! so why did these honorable gentlemen, scarcely bush supporters, introduce a pair of bills that the white house has said are unnecessary and the pentagon does not want?"
If any of your lib friends come up to you and tell you that the draft might come back, here's what you do:
1. Feign becoming upset.
2. State "I would never vote for ANYONE in a political party that would bring back the draft!"
3. Engage them in a conversation in the topic - get them riled up.
4. Get them to agree that bringing back the draft is a bad idea and that whatever party is sponsoring it should not be running the Government.
5. After they agree, say "We need to do some research, to see what individuals are sponsoring legislation to bring back the draft - and vote everyone in that party out of office!"
6. Walk over to the computer and go to the House of Representatives website http://www.house.gov and look up HR 163 "Reinstate Draft Bill" and while you're doing it with your liberal friend, mumble under your breath "I can't believe these dirty politicians want to bring back the draft - we need to get rid of those guys who are sponsoring it".
7. Act VERY surprised when you look up the sponsor of the bill. "Oh my gosh... it's not a Republican, it's Charlie Rangel, a Democrat!"
8. Look up the co-sponsors, "Oh my gosh... they're ALL Democrats - all 14 of them!!".
9. Say, "Well, let's see what the Senate has to say on this". Go to the Senate website http://www.senate.gov and look up S89 "Reinstate Draft Bill".
10. Say, "We need to vote these guys out too!" Act surprised when you find the sponsor of the bill is Fritz Hollings - a Democrat!
11. Look at your lib friend and say, "We agreed, we need to vote out the party that is trying to bring back the draft - so we have to vote out all the Democrats".
"The machinery for a draft is already in place..." signed into law by Jimmy Carter! CBS is shamelessly working for the DNC. Have to wonder what the payoff is. Do none of them have any journalistic integrity?
I swear I read something yesterday that put Cocco firmly in the Democrat party.
If after she prays, she continues to be petrified by something that "could" happen, she doesn't have alot of faith in whoever she praying to about the ultimate good of what happens.
This person is actually allowed to vote???
Is Dan trying to prove that he is using his nightly "news" program as a corporately funded Kerry for President campaign site?
What other bogus stories is he going to push in trying to "help" Kerry?
If the government upped the military's budget to pay for more soldiers, there would be no need to draft. They'd have plenty of people who wanted to be there. Plus, it's hard to make a draftee learn enough to properly operate many of the systems the military currently uses, making the draft even more cost-ineffective.
http://www.ratherbiased.com/
At the center of Schlesinger’s piece was a woman named Beverly Cocco, a Philadelphia woman who is “sick to my stomach” that her two sons might be drafted. In his report, Schlesinger claimed that Cocco was a Republican and portrayed her as an apolitical (even Republican) mom worried about the future.
Schlesinger did not disclose that Cocco is a chapter president of an advocacy group called People Against the Draft (PAD) which, in addition to opposing any federal proscription, seeks to establish a “peaceful, rational foreign policy” by bringing all U.S. troops out of Iraq. Like Schlesinger’s Cocco, the group portrays itself as “nonpartisan” although its leadership seems to be entirely bereft of any Republicans.
The group’s domain is registered to a man named Jacob Levich, a left-wing activist who in a 2001 essay compared the Bush Administration to the totalitarian government portrayed in George Orwell’s 1984.
HR 163 & SB 89 Exposed: The Honest Truth About the Draft (why the Dems pushed the draft in 2003)
DRAFT LIKELY TO RETURN UNDER BUSH (LIAR ALERT! KERRY TRYING TO SCARE YOUNG VOTERS!)
The Petrified Mom Vote. Hmm.
O.K., off the top of my brain pan, Bush counsels:
"And I say to ALL mothers: DON'T LOOK BACK! Keep jogging FORWARD to VICTORY!"
So we lose the Sedentary Petrified Mom Vote.
Big Beautiful Deal.
You would think that SEE BS would learn a little something after we spanked them not too long ago. Let's see Bush is leading in women like no Republican has in recent history and all of a sudden we see the Blather folks come up with this. I don't think anyone will buy it. People are stupid but not that....
OK, Freepers this is your salient moment, do your stuff! Show CBS and Rather, not to mention the rest of those sicophants and self-appointed judges of what we "need to know" that you're "Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take it Anymore!"
memo to SEE-BS, SHUT THE F UP!!!
Relax - remember, CBS has lost most of it's audience and it's credibility
Whew! You had me worried for a minute there. I thought that this story might have legs.
But then I realized that it is from CBS. ;)
Lets Roll people! Rathergate style!
Lets get this around the blogosphere and let it chew on the issue for a while and keep the story alive till it finally topples CBS!
Excellent research. Also during the same broadcast CBS implied that many if not all Iraqi police may be in cahoots with the insurgents (i.e. terrorists). It's unbelievable how CBS slants their reports. Disgusting. I've only joined the blogging community last month - I didn't realize how much the blogs have changed from years past. Nice to see so many people now performing the checks and balances that the MSM eliminated long, long ago.
As if we needed any further proof that CBS is blatantly in bed with the DNC.