I've seen zero to no female garbage collectors and jack-hammer operators, just to name a couple of occupations. If a company can be sued for not having enough women, then companies ought to be able to protect themselves. How about allowing companies to draft women, forcing them to join their work force?

You say, "That's wrong, Williams." Why? If the Army is able to draft men when it doesn't have enough soldiers, what's wrong with companies being able to use a draft when they don't have enough women?

 — Walter Williams

          The Draft

  What does it mean to be a slave? I have asked myself that from time to time. But never so much as when King George IV was anointed to power less than four years ago.

Read my lips, 'no reinstatement of the draft'. That is the current Bush mantra.  I watch as more than 40% of the troops present in the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq were made up of non-active duty military (i.e., Guard and Reserve forces). Americans who volunteered to learn the brutal military arts with the intention of defending our country from invaders, have been ordered to be the black hats they sought to protect against. Now, as regular military units end their tour and are rotated out of Iraq, this percentage is increasing (55%).

I now watch as their tour of duty away from home and family are extended by fiat from six months to nine months to 12 months to now 15 months. Always good for morale. I watched as their mission was declared a success by a publicity seeking CONmander in Chief, and then the victorious troops were left to conduct a nation building exercise, instead of coming home.

So we have turned our soldiers into the very thing they sought to fight. We keep extending their length in purgatory. And eventually we will have to let them have the opportunity to sign another long term commitment or leave the service. Gee, what do you think is going to happen? The Pentagon is already conducting troop survey after survey asking if soldiers and sailors intend to re-up (reenlist). And the feedback is not looking too good. Our soldiers are very bright. They see they are having their lives wasted.

Worse, if you have ever been in the military, and leave, you are considered on the "inactive" reserves. For the next eight years, you are subject to being called back to duty (i.e., involuntarily drafted). Well, as I write this 6,000 ex-military people, who served their country, received an honorable discharge, went home to start their lives as civilians, and were receiving NO government checks (unlike Reserve and Guard personnel), have now been conscripted back into the military. This is almost unheard of!

The military is desperate. They are being ordered to fulfill (mainly "pizza delivery") missions in virtually every nation on the planet [Why?]. They are spread very thin. Now the Neocon jingoes have us in a hostile post-invasion occupation of Iraq, and we do not have the troops to keep up the occupation effort, as regular troops are rotating back to the states (and fleeing the military when their enlistment has expired). As Reserve and Guard units come back from deployment, and they also decide that nice monthly check now is not worth the pay. As the President’s own administration cuts pay and benefits of active duty personnel to save money (another morale booster). All of this adds up to . . . the time honored government program of involuntary servitude (you know, that thing prohibited by the Constitution) known as The Draft.

The Draft will start just after the election in November, no matter how much your representatives say otherwise. That is right. Did you know your Representatives in our national capitol have decided it is your duty to be enslaved for two years, to use a gun for the government. Somehow, you are obligated to such duty to your Motherland (or some other socialist slogan). They will of course be most apologetic, and say they reluctantly see no other alternative . . . but your enslavement. 

Only this time, there is a new government program. S. 89/H.R 163, your obligation to 2 years of national service. Now the girls must go too. And now ALL persons residing (citizen or not) in the U.S., between the ages of 18 and 26 get to be enslaved for 2 years of their life, not just the unlucky draft lottery winners. Do not worry about those military slots filling up. There will be plenty of other regime tasks to perform, so only people of color and poor white trash will be placed in harms way. Of course if two years works out swell, why not make it three or four or heck why not twenty? Do not you owe it to the authorities just for being allowed to reside in this great country of ours? Your parents already work half their lives just to pay taxes to Uncle Sam, and every year they get a little bit more of their life sliced off.

So what are YOU willing to do about it? If you think voting is the answer . . . how do you think the guys who are going to do this to you, got into Washington D. C. in the first place?

If voting could change things, it would be illegal!  Voting is simply the tyranny of the majority. By what right does ANYONE other than yourself have the ability to obligate you to spend one second of your life doing anything they want done? You are not a slave, unless you let them enslave you. So once again, what are you going to do?        [THINK]   [PLAN]   [DO]

Slavery. When a person demands the services of another .

1. A state of subjection to an owner or master.

2. Lack of personal freedom, as to act as one chooses.

The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder

One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power

One bound in servitude as the property of a person or household.

[source: http://dictionary.reference.com/]

No Child Left Behind [law] is a big program, and, despite all the failures to
bring the promise home, there has been at least one part of it that has
been a rousing success. All high school seniors hoping to go to college
cherish their school records and strive to make them stand out so they
can go to their favorite choices. High school teachers and
administration officials generally add their two cents and occasional
letters of recommendation for outstanding performances.

And so No Child Left Behind took this into account when it made its deal
with the military and Selective Service. The program requires the
records of all high school seniors each year be sent to the Pentagon for
Selective Service processing. They want to have a look at our proud
seniors, too.

In fact, military folks have actually gone door-to-door to interview
certain gifted students that have what they need. Parents need only say
"no," and the files will not be sent, which means standing up and being
counted as anti-military, which overlaps with another file heading.
Otherwise, all files are the property of the military and immediately
sent off to the Pentagon's megacomputers, by law.

This reaping of the draftable population carries with it a sentiment
altogether different from the compassionate, loving overtones that first
come to mind. I am very afraid that No Child Left Behind is a kind of
cookbook that allows the military to cannibalize our young. God help us.

Chris Hardaker
U of A alumnus

 " . . .it [conscription] rests on the assumption that your kids belong to the state. If we buy that assumption then it is for the state –  not for parents, the community, the religious institutions or teachers –  to decide who shall have what values and who shall do what work, when, where and how in our society. That assumption is not a new one. The Nazis thought it was a great idea."        

–  Ronald Reagan, 1979, unkept campaign promise to abolish Selective Service

Government Plans to Draft Healthcare Personnel

A history of the draft

Links for Policy Wonks

Cato on Conscription

Independence Institute on the Draft