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I have to disagree with you. Unlike you, at one time I was subject to the draft and it certainly is slavery. (I wasn't called up, but I would have gone if I was. Even so, I define forced service as slavery nontheless.) We don't need the draft today(thank God) for military purposes because the professional Volunteer Armed Forces are far superior to a drafted force.
Drafting every high school student is a massive misallocation of the Nation's youth resource. I reiterate that it is slavery imposed by the government on a free people. This program, along with the other proposals, is a thinly disguised effort to channel young people's natural intellectual search at an impressionable age into government-approved and controlled thoughts ideas.
If you want to volunteer, go to it, but don't force others to do it if they don't want to. It is naive to think that "community service" is really valuable if it is forced.

Whoa! "Drafting every high school student is a massive misallocation of the Nation's youth resource."

You say you are against such a draft as slavery. Why then think in such terms? The "Nation's youth resource" sounds so fascist. Free American people are not resources, to be allocated or misallocated.

I'm glad to see that someone has the evidence on Kerry's real plans for America. I've been telling people about this for months but it seems like nobody cares. And then Kerry's site gets web-washed clean. By the way, Edwards had similar proposals on his site during the primaries.