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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 08:58 AM
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Selective Service to make huge Skills database of everyone under 35!
RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE!

Kerry has a NO-DRAFT Plan, while Bush plans to draft engineers, programmers, linguists and nurses ASAP (meaning after the election).

If you have an occupation, are male or female and under 35 YOU will be forced to register or John Ashcroft will threaten you with a $250,000 fine and prison (the FBI will come and get you like in Vietnam days). If Bush is reselected, he will ask for the DRAFT on April 1, 2005 (see my earlier posts). YOU will have to register to work for the PNAC Plan as a slave in the War on Error BY MAY 1, 2005, according to all indicators and current DRAFT RULES.

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:02 AM
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1. here's the link
Here is the link. This info only revealed thru FOI Act!!!!

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/171522_draft01.html

Flahavan said the agency has begun designing procedures for a targeted registration and draft of people with computer and language skills, in case military officials and Congress authorize it.

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At present, the Selective Service is authorized to register only young men and they are not required to inform the government about any professional skills. Separately, the agency has in place a special registration system to draft health care personnel in more than 60 specialties into the military if necessary in a crisis.

Some of the skill areas where the armed forces are facing "critical shortages" include linguists and computer specialists, the agency said. Americans would then be required to regularly update the agency on their skills until they reach age 35.

Individuals proficient in more than one critical skill would list the skill in which they have the greatest degree of competency.

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Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 03:55 PM
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17. SO...... A whole new bureaucracy will be needed
Edited on Thu May-20-04 03:58 PM by Ernesto
We could call them the "skill police". How else can the government be sure about potential "cannon fodder" telling the truth about their skills.... Ashcroft would love the idea, I'm sure.. Remember, we're talking about millions of people to be investigated.
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JohnOneillsMemory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:03 AM
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2. Occupation: Anti-imperialist. Sign me up, John.
I'm doing sound for a bunch of college commencements lately. I'm gonna mention this to the speakers.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:08 AM
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3. i thought it was 35 now
they don't draft handicapped peopLe, right?
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:16 AM
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4. Actually YES! There are NO medical deferments for the Skills DRAFT
Sorry.

If you are totally, completely and fully disabled, however, you are let off. Otherwise, like wheelchair only, YOU'RE ELIGIBLE.

Like the Medical DRAFT, only "essential community need" is the only deferment.

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

KERRY '04 = PNAC OUT THE DOOR!
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:22 AM
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6. odd
when i Lost my hearing as a smaLL chiLd, my parents tried to point out the good at being deaf - i couLdn't be drafted.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:34 AM
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8. I have an
autistic son that is getting ready to attend NC State. He is actually going for a two year associates degree and not a bachelor's degree. Would he be draftable with autism?
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 11:06 AM
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13. Technically yes, practically no
The final decision is up to the draft board and appeals board.

Not likely if disability is too challenging.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:18 AM
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5. alas, I'll have to give up my prized American citizenship
How's that for conscientious objector status. In the days of serfs, peasants weren't allowed to leave the lands of their lords, and lived there only at their sufferance, being forced into whatever wars and skirmishes happened at the whims of their lords. That is not the case in America, but just in case some plutocrat thinks it is, then there are better places in the world to be than in America.

Forcing me or my children into the military just plain isn't going to happen, even if it becomes the law. If there are no freedoms left to defend I'm going to take my family and skedaddle.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:07 AM
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10. which is not to say
that I wouldn't hesitate to take up arms and defend America if we were attacked by a foreign power. I just don't agree with costly pre-emptive wars based on made-up assertions such as WMD, managed by undereducated, culturally ignorant military and civilian leaders. And I refuse to put my gene line at risk for the corrupt selfish liars in Washington, not matter how much lipstick you put on that pig.

We're not "defending America's freedoms" in Iraq, and the war in Iraq is certainly not "the war on terror", although many people confuse the two. Our rationale for being in that place was made-up WMD, PERIOD. After we invaded and couldn't find them we revised our so-called rationale to be "regime change" and bringing "democracy to Iraq", which has never been a national goal or an acceptabe rationale for a pre-emptive strike, and would never have been approved on its own by Congress.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:24 AM
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7. For the first time...
I'm glad I'm over 35!!!
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DU9598 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 09:47 AM
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9. Happily gay here
They don't want me ... probably find some other way to jail me though. Maybe the constitution will be amended to ban my existence.
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graham67 Donating Member (732 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 11:08 AM
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14. Amen!
I've never been happier to be 36!
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 05:00 PM
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18. hmmm-
in some of the 12 proposals I've seen ...the age is up to 45(medical).

Judging by the stench of all this , I'd say we're due for a bio attack , being over 35 won't protect you from the forced slavery. rather you'll be forced around by the brownshirts serving domestically that will be created by these proposals.Sound implausible? not under Martial Law it doesn't...

:nuke:
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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:24 AM
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11. so, should I be worried?
I'm 25, computer analyst, and fluent in Russian......John Kerry better kick some major ass, or I'm emigrating back to Russia
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truthspeaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 10:28 AM
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12. makes me glad I have so few skills!
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 11:08 AM
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15. I'm too old for this shit... literally... thank god. n/t
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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-20-04 03:09 PM
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16. kick
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