[extropy-chat] 70% oppose resumption of military conscription

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:> 
> On Jun 24, 2005, at 1:11 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > --- c c <beb_cc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050624/ap_on_re_us/draft_ap_ipsos_poll
> >>
> >
> > Which is why there is no draft, no desire for a draft, and will be
> > no draft. Those talking about drafts are minority politicians with
> > no pull and radical leftists who are put out that the students of
> > today are not so anti-war enough to protest because they are not
> > personally at risk with the current day all-volunteer force. The
> > left wants to create a
> > draft in order to build anti-war sentiment, by interfering with
> > military recruitment efforts. One more socialist shibboleth.
> 
> There will be draft and it will come from the current  
> administration.  Bank on it.

People have been saying this since before the Iraq war. Mike Badnarik
was 'guaranteeing' during the election that Bush would implement one by
January. Didn't happen. Now the left is getting all huffed up over the
fact that military recruiters have established a central database for
direct marketing recruiting materials most cost-effectively, as if they
didn't do that before (wrong). The only thing that is new now is that
the No Child Left Behind Act requires schools accepting federal aid to
supply full student lists to recruiters, whereas before recruiters had
to purchase lists from magazines and organizations that cater to
teenagers.

The impending draft is the biggest chicken-little story of this decade.

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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