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If passed, the Universal National Service Act of 2003, introduced by House Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY), would require two years of military or civilian national service for all Americans between the ages of 18 and 26 -- both male and female. No exemptions are to be given, according to the bill, for college students.
www.congress.org
Everyone go here and type in your zip code, in the soap box section for "mandatory military draft". Tell your congressman not to vote for the draft. Don't let those mother fuckers sentence us to death.
If thats not enough 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.
$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 Afghanisan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves
accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year,
http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...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.
Even those voters who currently support US 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.
The public has a right to air their opinions about such an important
decision.
Sincerely,
Nora Maly
www.congress.org
Everyone go here and type in your zip code, in the soap box section for "mandatory military draft". Tell your congressman not to vote for the draft. Don't let those mother fuckers sentence us to death.
If thats not enough 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.
$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 Afghanisan [and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves
accurate, the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year,
http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...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.
Even those voters who currently support US 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.
The public has a right to air their opinions about such an important
decision.
Sincerely,
Nora Maly