Posted on 05/26/2024 1:15:35 AM PDT by RandFan
It would be like WWI, when they had “Slacker Raids” to try to catch the draft dodgers.
Yes I was alive and opposed to the draft, I got my a permanent deferment from it and then I enlisted in the Army.
I was very engaged during the 60s and while opposing the draft I believed strongly in every man who could, serving, I was totally intolerant of those who left the country and crossed a number of them when they would slip back in from Canada, I always made my disdain for them clear.
Military service was still the norm for American men as my family illustrates, pulling a hitch was just part of the growing up, don’t let activist mislead you about the masses and American society in general.
The highest support for the Vietnam War was the under 30s, the same crowd who voted 52% for Nixon in 1972, the under 30s of 1968 gave the democrats only 47% of their vote.
Democrats of ALL STRIPES support their OWN....NO MATTER WHAT!
I didn’t know about those. Interesting. I wondered about it generally, because in 1917 huge swaths of the US were pretty backwards, there was a Census and births recorded, but no national database of addresses and the rest of it. A whole lot or people could fly under the radar. “Social Security” ended that, I reckon. A lot of children died, too, when SS numbers were required for federal tax returns about 1980. Weird, that.
“You can’t yell Fire in a crowded theater” was the example used by a Supreme Court justice, in response to World War I anti-draft demonstrations.
Yep a whole bunch of “Karens” signed up to participate in the Slacker Raids.
American Protective League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Protective_League
“APL agents, many of them female, worked undercover in factories and attended union meetings in hope of uncovering saboteurs and other enemies of the war effort”
This time, the Karens will be liable for military service. Illegal aliens aren’t exempt either.
I’m just cynical and jaded enough where any serious talk of draft legislation would be highly entertaining. The screeching and caterwauling could be heard from outer space.
Hardly. Conscription continued throughout WW2 and thereafter, as 2-year 'National Service' for 18-year-olds till 1961, the last conscript leaving in 1963. I missed it by a year, so that at University I had the curious experience of guys starting a year after me who were two years older than I was.
Many of the British troops killed in the Korean War were National Service conscripts.
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