
Woe to us: McCain-Lieberman draft effort
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Today the #McCainLieberman draft effort officially debuted. With your help and support we can unite and fix America.
How can this be legal? My heart hurts.
I know a better way to fight ISIS. It starts with an idea that should appeal the better angels of both hawks and doves: National service for all 18- to 28-year-olds.
This is one of the most important articles I will write all year. The statists are coming for your kids, and the conditioning has already begun.
Today's mail brought my son, Thomas who turned 18 earlier this month a letter from the U.S. Selective Service System.
I watched a PBS show on the history of the draft (conscription, selective service) a couple of nights ago. It pissed me off.
Oh, how far he has fallen,....
The last continuously serving Vietnam War draftee on active-duty is retiring from the Army. His first response was to consider moving to Canada, but his mother, Dorothy, wouldn't hear it.
Statist politicians of both the left and the right – John McCain, Robert Reich, Charley Rangel – keep asserting a claim the lives of young people. And if conscription into the military creates resistance, they are always ready with something call
There was a thread or post made a few days ago from another member on these forums who spoke about hearing a radio ad asking males to register for the selective service. If you don't know what that means, it's the DRAFT BOARD!
Ukrainians are burning their military drafts, refusing to hand over their sons to the Ukraine's Ministry of Defense.
Civil conscription refers to using draftees to address domestic problems such as a natural disaster or civil unrest. Compelling civilians to fill the domestic needs of the state during peacetime may sound alien to Western ears
Adriana Ramirez claimed she objected to the pledge to bear arms due to her sincerely held moral convictions, but her conscientious objector status was rejected because it was not based on religious belief.
The middle class loses out, Andrew Bacevich wants young people to serve their country, Cheerios releases a morbid ad, and Arne Duncan discusses access to preschool.
Rosa Koire, ASA, is the executive director of the Post Sustainability Institute and the author of BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: UN Agenda 21. She is a retired forensic commercial real estate appraiser specializing in eminent domain valuation.
It said that without compulsory service the Swiss military “will no longer be able to fulfill its current tasks,” pointing out that what gets done will depend on how many “skilled people volunteer to serve in the army.”
I have been following Jesse Ventura for quite some time and think he is amazing. I think he makes great points and I agree with him on 99% of the time.
Israel
The draft takes the perceived iniquity of targeting the poor, and evens the playing field so everyone has an equal chance at dying on a battle field… as opposed to the equal chance not to.
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) is backing a bill to reinstate the draft, but he wants to include women this time. Gender and liberal feminists seem to have arrived at the same conclusion: an endorsement of drafting women.
There has been speculation regarding President Obama’s “citizen army”. In 2008, President Obama made statements regarding a “civilian national security force”. Since that day, many have been curious as to what President Obama had in mind when he made
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., talks about the two bills which will reintroduce the draft and require all women to register for Selective Service.
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said he plans to bring back the military draft and extend it to women for the first time. Rangel said the decision to allow women to serve in combat means that they should register for the Selective Service.
Someone sent my sister this a couple of days ago. I also thought the following Onion clip put it into words. (skip the ad--foul language)
Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, does this mean that women could potentially be drafted, too? When women turn 18, will they now need to register, as men do, so that they can be conscripted in the event of a World War
It was the Obama Administration's push for the institution of a national service program back in 2009 that was the impetus for my original essay launching the John Galt Pledge, along with this accompanying blog. You can find past articles on the subj
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, demands the re-instatement of conscription so that next time Washington commits itself to a needless foreign war "every town, every city [will be] at risk."
The former US commander in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, has urged that the draft be reinstated to spread the burden of fighting and to instill a sense of shared civic duty among young Americans. The country’s all-volunteer force has performed
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever." George Orwell
The drumbeat to enslave us never lets up. A few years ago, in my essay, "National Service: A Vicious Concept—And Its Antidote," I wrote about the Obama administration's drive to impose mandatory national service on all Americans.