Pending Draft Legislation
06-10-2004, 01:46 PM
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Pending Draft Legislation
Pending Draft Legislation
Pending Draft Legislation
Targeted for Spring of 2005
The Draft Will Start in June 2005
There is pending legislation in house and senate ( twin bills: S 89 and HR 163 ) which will time the program's intiation so the draft can begin as 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 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 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 10,35! 0 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.
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year, http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/default.asp entitled the Univeral 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, preform 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 forein 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 untill the end of the current semester. Seniors would have untill the end of the academic year.
Even those voterswho 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. Ask your friends, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins that you know. Let your children know too -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice for change!
Please also contact your representatives to ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills.
To read this and other articles, visit:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg...=ua_congressorg
Pending Draft Legislation
Targeted for Spring of 2005
The Draft Will Start in June 2005
There is pending legislation in house and senate ( twin bills: S 89 and HR 163 ) which will time the program's intiation so the draft can begin as 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 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 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 10,35! 0 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.
Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward this year, http://www.hslda.org/legislation/na...s89/default.asp entitled the Univeral 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, preform 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 forein 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 untill the end of the current semester. Seniors would have untill the end of the academic year.
Even those voterswho 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. Ask your friends, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins that you know. Let your children know too -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice for change!
Please also contact your representatives to ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills.
To read this and other articles, visit:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg...=ua_congressorg
06-11-2004, 11:16 PM
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This country is full of cowards and people should be ready to serve at anytime if not we will have no freedom. We the people have a responsibility to everyone around us and need to stop being selfish and self centered History has proved that the weak has been devoured and it might just make you a better person.
It could also help the homeless situation and cut back on freeloading minorities getting welfare checks. At least if I'm paying for them we can put them to work. It can also account for people in this country that should not be.
It could also help the homeless situation and cut back on freeloading minorities getting welfare checks. At least if I'm paying for them we can put them to work. It can also account for people in this country that should not be.
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