Impact of DRAFT Issue on Race. The Special Skill DRAFT male/female, 20-44!

If Bush is reselected and asks Congress for the DRAFT on April 1, 2005, as I have been predicting since November, all computer "experts", linguists and engineers would likely have to register by May 1, 2005 at their local Post Office. They will register first (after Congress passes some enabling legislation in November to add speciall skills to the current draft law), for the SSS has to compile their names in the new Special Skills database.

Induction of thousands would likely begin over the Summer of 2005 for those selected in the Special Skills Lottery--which is different from the regular drawing in that age DOES NOT MATTER. Everyone in the System Analyst pool, for example, male or female, age 20-44, is chosen by your birthday. THERE ARE ALSO NO MEDICAL EXAMS AS THERE ARE NO MEDICAL DEFERMENTS! Only "essential community service" counts as deferment.

The first 3 occupations are only the beginning. There are literally hundreds of occupations that the Pentagon could have a shortage of. So now your life may depend on what you have been putting down as your occupation on your IRS form--if Bush is reselected.

Kerry has a NO-DRAFT PLAN, so no posts saying Kerry would do the same thing. Unless you are prepared to repute each of Kerry's parts of his NO-DRAFT PLAN: Restructuring, increase re-enlistment and recruitment with real scholarships and pay and bene raises, no more invasions of other countries, creation of a volunteer Civilian Stability Corps, and bringing in NATO and other forces to Iraq for stabilization and getting out.

This is the issue that will get the currently unactive young people out of their apathetic stupor and get them to the polls!


'Special skills draft' on drawing board
Eric Rosenberg
San Francisco Chronicle
March 13, 2004

http://www.notinourname.net/war/skills-draft-14mar04.htm

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Richard Flahavan, a spokesman for the Selective Service System, said planning for a possible draft of linguists and computer experts had begun last fall after Pentagon personnel officials said the military needed more people with skills in those areas.

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The agency already has in place a special system to register and draft health care personnel ages 20 to 44 in more than 60 specialties if necessary in a crisis. According to Flahavan, the agency will expand this system to be able to rapidly register and draft computer specialists and linguists, should the need ever arise. But he stressed that the agency had received no request from the Pentagon to do so.

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A Pentagon official familiar with personnel issues stressed that the armed forces were against any form of conscription but acknowledged the groundwork already underway at the Selective Service System.

"We understand that Selective Service has been reviewing existing organizational mission statements to confirm their relevance for the future," the official said. "Some form of 'special skills' registration, not draft, has been a part of its review."

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BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

Seems as if they'd have to stick to those with degress or other paper certifications? All those poor MSCE certificate holders! For so many of them, not only did it not land them a permanent job, but now it will get them drafted!

I never finished my degree and I'm already 40. Wonder how desperate they will get?

If you filled that out on the registration compliance form at the Post Office and your birthday is selected, you could be called up. They would likely take the smartest and most experienced of the bunch.

It's all modeled on the Specialtists part of the Medical DRAFT system already in place. If you fill out software consultant on your IRS form and are under 45, you will be asked to register by the President of the United States on April 1 of next year.

Unless of course the White House meant it when it recently said "the draft is not being considered at this time"

So a current list is on record and easily accessible.

But there's no sort of official licensing for computer skills. I can't believe they'd wade through all those IRS tax forms to get a list of computer specialists. From what I understand about the IRS, they aren't really in a situation where they can just pull out that sort of information in a useful fashion -- unless they've dramatically upgraded their computer system in recent years.

Who knows, you might be right, but I'd be willing to bet that in reality, it will be more of an honor system (they might tell us they will check somehow, but they have no real way of doing so).

"I can't believe they'd wade through all those IRS tax forms"

What about all those that filed electronically? (which I imagine people with tech skills would be more inclined to do) A 10 second search will get you a pretty nice list.

There will no doubt be a new Special Skills registration form that will ask what your specialties are in computers as well as what languages you speak. You will have to fill it out at the Post Office and have it postmarked by May 1, 2005.

Will the sheeple register is the question.

And don't forget the Airborne Laser, which will need tens of thousands of programmers to develop tracking software and security systems, etc. They have perfected a 2 Mw laser that can shoot 180 miles accurately (this is real now).

BIG BROTHER will know who you are as soon as they need to. How about school transcripts? Take any computer courses? What were they?

Selective Service is putting themselves on all the high school and college campuses they can.

I feel safe at 51 but, for those folks that never lived through a draft lottery. It's gonna be fingernail bitin' time.

Think about it, why not get rid of liberals or people who identify as democrats for Kerry? Eliminate the competition by drafting them, why do you think they have such a large pool, 20-44! So, say I got my MCSE, female, and I briefly worked in the computer industry, and I've written some pretty incriminating things that state I will NOT vote for Bush. All of a sudden, my name gets picked in some computer saying I'm an expert according to some ambiguous guidelines, I want to fight it, because I'm by no means an expert, however, I get shipped over to Iraq, and handed a gun, guess that's one less vote for Kerry, now isn't it? Just like all the soldiers dying now, remember, those are votes Bush is losing, not just American lives. He'll need to even the bar out a bit. I would never put anything past this nazi. He's a dangerous man with a very dangerous plan. And that's how a fascist state begins....elimate jobs, force your people to fight and die or kill them for not dying for their country. It's a perfect plan, and when it's all over with in four more years, all that's left is a bunch of rich people in complete control of the world with enough weapons to destroy anyone who challenges them. World domination...ain't it grand if you're on the "right" side.

I'm 22 and I'm receiving my BS in Management Information Systems this May and I plan to for my Master's in MIS starting next Spring.

I'm also in pretty good physical shape although it seems like the drafters are after the brain not the physique.

If a draft happens I just may have to say if Canada is looking for any good systems analyst talent but the problem is I speak Spanish as a 2nd language not French....

the White House. This kind of thing should be circulating around thousands of campuses about now. Drafts suck. And you can probably forget about veterans benefits too.