Wow, draft...

[TheKillerBigMac]

military draft, selective services given 28 million Posted: Feb 18, 2004 11:14 AM Reply

$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. SSS 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
<http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html>
<http://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....rticle5146.htm
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5146.htm>
<http://www.informationclearinghouse....rticle5146.htm

Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and H.R. 163 forward this year,
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 remember. College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001,
Canada and the US 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 US Homeland Security Director, Gov.
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.

I found this in a thread in the SOAD forum. Wow, a draft. Kinda scary, for me at least. How do you feel about this?

If you wanna see the thread, here ya go. http://forums.sonymusic.com/thread.j...rt=0&trange=15