Re: OT - Here Comes the Draft

Gary Collard <jh@xxxxxx> wrote in news:46E178CF.FF5B53AA@xxxxxx:

Johnny wrote:

theBZA wrote:
mozark <swooning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1189090324.361465.259120
@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:


New push for military draft in US
by Barry Grey
6 September 2007

Timed to coincide with the reconvening of Congress and the renewal
of the fraudulent official "debate" on the Iraq war, Time magazine
has published an edition with a cover story entitled "The Case for
National Service."


The problem with this theory is that reinstituting a draft is
political suicide. At least 70% of Americans want the US out of
IRaq yesterday and they tried to make that happen by voting Dem
last year. Didn't work. Americans are pissed off. If congress
passed a draft, every single member would be voted out as soon as
their seat was up. The only way this happens is if there is a
massive "terrorist" attack on the US, martial law is declared,
including a draft, and all elections indefinitely postponed. Do you
think that would fly? I think their allegiance to the NRA and love
the second amendment would come back to bite the repubs on the ass.



Also problematic is Rangel's theory that a draft would be
egalitarian, thus the wealthy and privileged would be averse
to military adventures. The reality is that the children of
wealth and privilege would be given a way out just as they
always have. But if a draft really would lead to widespread
political revolution of the common people, I'm for it
because drastic revolution now seems to be the only cure for
the twin follies of imperialism and absolute plutocracy that
the Power Elite now seek with brazen defiance of the will
of, and unabashed neglect of the best interests of, the
People.

Gotta give you props for humor...take the most successful and most
moral political, economic and social experiment in human history and
you...call for revolution. Real men of genius, Marx division.


Our democracy has been hijacked by the money elite. It doesn't take a
Marxist to know that this is not what the Founders intended.

--
Crippled but free
I was blind all the time
I was learning to see.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: OT - Here Comes the Draft
    ... At least 70% of Americans want the US out of IRaq yesterday and they tried to make that happen by voting Dem last year. ... If congress passed a draft, every single member would be voted out as soon as their seat was up. ... Democrats and Republicans wear different hats and squabble with each other, but under both hats are like minds and the quarreling is merely over which politicians get to officially represent and further the interests of the masters of both, to wit: the plutocratic oligarchy of international corporate capitalism that is intent on ruling the whole damned world through economic subjugation. ...
    (alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers)
  • Re: OT - Here Comes the Draft
    ... The problem with this theory is that reinstituting a draft is political ... If congress passed a draft, ... wealth and privilege would be given a way out just as they ... political revolution of the common people, ...
    (alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers)
  • Senior Democrat renews call for military draft
    ... Senior Democrat renews call for military draft ... Rangel, who opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq, also said he did not think ... Congress were sent to fight. ...
    (alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots)
  • Re: "Dog-whistle Catholicism"
    ... Congress, to bring in a draft so as to allow the war in ... effort at all to bring back the draft? ... Plus, of course, the argument assumes that the problem in Iraq is numbers, not culture, terrain or any of those other things. ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)
  • Re: "Dog-whistle Catholicism"
    ... Congress, to bring in a draft so as to allow the war in ... Iraq to be won - ... ... Who, exactly, on the Republican side has made any ... effort at all to bring back the draft? ...
    (rec.arts.sf.written)