Re: note to rec.sport.paintball readers

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:23:20 -0400, "Jeff Goslin"
<autockr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>Yes, there is nobody who fights harder than a volunteer. Conscription is a
>bad idea, just in general. You force people to fight who are not very good
>at it, and don't believe very strongly in the cause. If your armed forces
>are 100% volunteer, well, you've got the best motivated army in the world:
>the SELF motivated kind.
>
>Hell, would you want ME to be conscripted into service, knowing that the
>first bullet that whizzes my way will be my cue to exeunt stage left? "You
>guys wait here, I'll go get help! Gimme like... 5 minutes..."

Hey I believe in the volunteer army but I feel everyone should do
their time in one way or another.

First though I think that our political representatives and others
should keep this a country so that we are proud to defend it at home
and abroad.

Good Example:

What is up with this Gas price gouging on supplies that have been in
the system for over a month (at least). Gas price went up 15cents per
gallon today already and is going up again next week. I think enough
is enough. It has been 80 cents since this past January. I am in
Florida and we even have some of our own refineries. It does not add
up.

Oh well I better drop the political thing. Wait a minute that is what
the politicians are doing. At least it appears like they are afraid
of the fuel companies. Hey the Alaska Pipeline and others are running
at less than 1/4th of their capacity. Let's boycott ;-)
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Why do Scots vote SNP ? #165(ish)
    ... The same must have been so during the conscription ... did more Scots volunteer in the early part of the war? ... The Hearts team most of whom enlisted at the start of the war ...
    (soc.culture.scottish)
  • Re: Canadas WW2 Contribution
    ...  We do not currently have a draft ... when conscription started, the conscripts could not, by law, be sent ... All of this happened before TOG claims we even sent troops overseas. ... Yet he did praise the Canadian troops who did volunteer. ...
    (rec.motorcycles)
  • Re: Canadas WW2 Contribution
    ... volunteer to go fight in Europe, ... when conscription started, the conscripts could not, by law, be sent ... chateau dot murray at idnet dot com ...
    (rec.motorcycles)