Thanks for finding this.
"The Internet is helping propagate the myth that there is a secret government plan," Zellen said. He points to the war in Iraq as one of the roots of the rumors. The other catalysts, he and others following the issue said, came from events in Washington over the past 18 months.
The first came in January 2003 when Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) introduced separate bills calling for draft-age men and women to perform military or civilian government service. Both congressmen were vocal opponents of the Iraq war and both conceded that neither bill had a chance of ever coming to a vote in the Republican- controlled Congress. "
The rumours have been flying.
Easy to find...was on page 1 of one of my local li(e)beral newspapers.