....yes folks there is more serious consideration for beginning the draft again.... You can read about it here.... I suggest you prepare all the young people.
In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here: chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.” The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...
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In the first 15 seconds, he calls me a "maggot" and declares that this is "his" United States of America.
Um, excuse me?
Did your mother not teach you any manners? If you call me "maggot," nothing you say afterward will be taken seriously.
And, as I was born in New Jersey, I am an American. As a citizen, this country is as much mine as it is yours.
I will not be threatened, conscripted, and forced into military service. I am a free human being. And I'm not going to be sent overseas to kill other human beings. I have no beef with them.
You, on the other hand, you vile tyrant, you on the other hand are starting to seem like a tyrant. Tyrants are dangerous. Sic Semper Tyrannis and all that.
We can't have a slave army. This isn't Sparta. I'm not a helot. This is the fucking United State of America, a free country. The barking loon in the video can go fuck himself. I'll have nothing to do with him.
This guy should watch his mouth. This guy should watch his back.
Brian: A good bit of scaremongering. A reinstatement of the draft will NOT -- repeat -- NOT happen in my or your lifetime.
This marks the first time a senior member of Congress has seriously discussed reinstituting the draft in almost two years. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, called for reinstituting the draft in November 2006.
Get real! Rangel's calls were hardly "serious." He was just trying to score cheap political points. There was nothing serious about it.
Nevertheless, the underlying message is still just as disgusting as I said.
The old message was, "We're the government and we own you."
The new message is "We're the government. We know longer own you but we have an option to lease."
Fuck. Them. Damn near every single soldier who perished in Iraq is worth more than George W. Bush. Who in the hell is he to send them to their death?
I'd trade GWB to get back Pat Tillman in a millisecond.
Our heroic young men are being sent to die for nothing. If there were a hell, Dick "I had other priorities" Cheney and George W. "Texas Air National Guard, not Vietnam" Bush would rot for eternity. Right next to Bin Laden.
The point is that the possiblity of a darft may not be as far off as you seem to think it is. There is serious discussion going on now between Petreaus and other high ups on re-instating the draft and they are soliciting support from both sides of the aisle...so you draw your own conclusions, but I am relatively confident that there WILL be a draft in our lifetime.
The ONLY way it'd happen is if we're attacked in a big way. Which, again, isn't very likely.