[extropy-chat] Fwd: Mandatory draft for your child?

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>

> --- John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:
> >
> > One sponsor of the bill, Alcee Hastings, has an especially
> > interesting history, in 1977 he was made the first Black Federal
> > Judge from Florida, but in 1988 he was caught conspiring to obtain
> > a $150,000 bribe to grant leniency to two convicted racketeers. He
> > was impeached in the House (413-3) and convicted in the Senate
> > becoming only the seventh Federal Judge to have
> > received that distinction in the history of the country. After that
> > Alcee Hastings embarked on a new career, politics.

> Fox, meet henhouse....

Henhouse, meet fox ...

"...of 535 members of Congress, only one has a child serving with the
military in Iraq.":

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002058054_pitts10.html

Olga