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Stop the Draft Before it Starts

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Stop the Draft Before it Starts

Healing Garden

Here we go:

There is pending legislation in the House and Senate to reinstate the draft (twin bills, S89 and HR163). Bill S89 was introduced by Sen. Fritz Hollings and Bill HR163 was introduced by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY). This plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a shelter and includes women as eligible to be drafted.


The Pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide. $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. The Selective Service must report to the President on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation. (For further reading see here.)


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