Got kids getting close to draft age? Think we'll be keeping people in the military after the way the Bush administration has utterly screwed up in Iraq? (see the letters from military and family below) Ready to send your kid somewhere under the leadership of George Bush and the people that make money off of our military involvements (like Dick Cheney who still gets "deferred pay" from Haliburton)?
Here's what is going on in congress to make it happen for your kids and some of you who have grandkids.
THE DRAFT
Subject: FW: Warning--twin bills to start military
draft in spring 2005
If there are children in your family, READ this. There
is pending
legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89
and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation
so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just
after the 2004 presidential election. The
administration is quietly trying to get these bills
passed now, while the public's attention is on the
elections, so our action on this is needed
immediately. Details and links follow.
Even those voters who currently support U.S. actions
abroad may still object to this move, knowing their
own children or grandchildren will not have a say
about whether to fight. Not that it should make a
difference, but this plan, among other things,
eliminates higher education as a shelter and includes
women in the draft
Also, crossing into Canada has already been made very
difficult.
Actions, actions, actions: Please send this on to all
the parents
and teachers you know, and all the aunts and uncles,
grandparents, godparents.... And let your children
know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful
voice for change!
Please also write to your representatives to ask them
why they aren't telling their constituents about these
bills -- and write to
newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why
they're not covering this important story.
The draft $28 million has been added to the 2004
selective service system (sss) budget to prepare for a
military draft that could start
as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must
report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system,
which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for
activation.
Please see website:
www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
to view the sss annual performance plan - fiscal year
2004.
The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to
fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070
appeals board slots nationwide. Though this is an
unpopular election year topic, military experts and
influential members of congress are suggesting that if
Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq
and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on
"terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no
choice but to draft.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5146.htm
www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward
this year,
http://www.hslda.org/legislation/national/2003/s89/default.asp
entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003,
"to provide for the common defense by requiring that
all young persons [age 18--26] in the United States,
including women, perform a period of military service
or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the
national defense and homeland security, and for other
purposes." These active bills currently sit in the
committee on armed services.
Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those
from the Vietnam era. College and Canada will not be
options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed
a "smart border declaration," which could be used to
keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's
minister of foreign affairs, John Manley, and U.S.
Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge, the declaration
involves a 30-point plan which implements, among
other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people
entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at
making the draft more equitable along gender and class
lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter.
Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service
until the end of their current semester. Seniors would
have until the end of the academic year.
THE DRAFT
Subject: FW: Warning--twin bills to start military
draft in spring 2005
If there are children in your family, READ this. There
is pending
legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89
and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation
so the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just
after the 2004 presidential election. The
administration is quietly trying to get these bills
passed now, while the public's attention is on the
elections, so our action on this is needed
immediately. Details and links follow.
Even those voters who currently support U.S. actions
abroad may still object to this move, knowing their
own children or grandchildren will not have a say
about whether to fight. Not that it should make a
difference, but this plan, among other things,
eliminates higher education as a shelter and includes
women in the draft
Also, crossing into Canada has already been made very
difficult.
Actions, actions, actions: Please send this on to all
the parents
and teachers you know, and all the aunts and uncles,
grandparents, godparents.... And let your children
know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful
voice for change!
Please also write to your representatives to ask them
why they aren't telling their constituents about these
bills -- and write to
newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why
they're not covering this important story.
The draft $28 million has been added to the 2004
selective service system (sss) budget to prepare for a
military draft that could start
as early as June 15, 2005. Selective Service must
report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system,
which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for
activation.
Please see website:
www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
to view the sss annual performance plan - fiscal year
2004.
The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to
fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070
appeals board slots nationwide. Though this is an
unpopular election year topic, military experts and
influential members of congress are suggesting that if
Rumsfeld's prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq
and Afghanistan [and a permanent state of war on
"terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may have no
choice but to draft.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5146.htm
www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward
this year,
http://www.hslda.org/legislation/national/2003/s89/default.asp
entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003,
"to provide for the common defense by requiring that
all young persons [age 18--26] in the United States,
including women, perform a period of military service
or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the
national defense and homeland security, and for other
purposes." These active bills currently sit in the
committee on armed services.
Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those
from the Vietnam era. College and Canada will not be
options. In December 2001, Canada and the U.S. signed
a "smart border declaration," which could be used to
keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's
minister of foreign affairs, John Manley, and U.S.
Homeland Security director, Tom Ridge, the declaration
involves a 30-point plan which implements, among
other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of people
entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at
making the draft more equitable along gender and class
lines also eliminates higher education as a shelter.
Underclassmen would only be able to postpone service
until the end of their current semester. Seniors would
have until the end of the academic year.
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