Post by future on Mar 31, 2004 19:58:10 GMT -5
Ok Parents, Teachers and Coaches Time to wake up!
Watching those charred bodies burn and knowing that 50 GI are dead this month is just plain a waste!
How people can still be so blind to this joke of an administration is beyond me! After living abroad for 5 years I truly understand how our countries veiled motives are being called out and yet how so many of us can be so convieniently blind,
War US Maine.....War Mr. Hearst....War Fox News!!!
An Under-reported important issue: reinstating the draft
> News from Sonoma State University's media research group that tracks
> significant issues, under-reported in the press (see bottom, below): The
> article details the current administration's agenda to reinstate the
> draft in order to staff up for the "protracted war on terrorism."
> There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89
> and HR163) 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. Details and links follow.
> Even those voters who currently support U.S. 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 -- also crossing
> into Canada has already been made very difficult.)
> ACTIONS, ACTIONS, ACTIONS:
> Please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know, and all
> the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And let your children
> know -- it's their future, and they can be a
> powerful voice for change! Please also write to your representatives to
> ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills --
> and write to newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're
> not covering this important story. I would also like to suggest that
> those wth kids in
> HighSchool give this email to them for publication in the HighSchool
paper.
> *********\
> The DRAFT
> $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. SSS 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 Afghanistan [and a
> permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate, the U.S. may
> have no choice but to draft.
> www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5146.htm
www.hslda.org/Legislation/National/2003/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
> remember. College and Canada will not be options. In December 2001,
> Canada and the US 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 US Homeland Security Director, Gov.
> 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 cur-rent
> semester. Seniors would have until
> the end of the academic year.
> **************
> *This article by Adam Stutz is from the "What's Hot Off the Press"
> column of the newsletter of Project Censored, a media research group at
> Sonoma State University that tracks t! he news published in independent
> journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an
> annual list (more than 20 years running) of 25 news stories of social
> significance that have
> been overlooked, under-reported, or self-censored by the country's major
> national news media.
> The mission of Project Censored is "to educate people about the role of
> independent journalism in a democratic society and to tell The News That
> Didn't Make the News and why."
> "What's Hot Off the Press" includes student synopses of articles
> currently being investigated for inclusion in the next Project Censored
> report. For more info and/or to receive Project Censored's newsletter,
> go to www.projectcensored.org/ or email [censored]@sonoma.edu
