Serious Effort Coming to Reinstate Draft in "Lame Duck" Session 2006

[chlamor]

Of course this can't be known with certainty but the PNAC agenda as well as the Neo-Liberal agenda, which is much the same with the variance being primarily one of methodology, requires many more "boots on the ground". A good article which outlines some of the preparations follows:

They're Coming For Your Children

by Korrin Weeks Grigg

The air is thick with signs that a serious effort to reinstate the draft will occur sometime in 2006 – most likely in a "lame duck" session of Congress following mid-term elections.

Investigative reporter Kevin Zees notes that the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think-tank top-heavy with former Clinton administration figures, sponsored a recent forum to discuss a conscription plan quite similar to Russia's. As outlined in the March issue of Washington Monthly by Capt. Philip Carter, U.S. Army (ret.) and Paul Glastris, the plan envisions requiring all 18-year-olds – of both sexes – to serve 1–2 year terms of mandatory service, either in the military, homeland security, or in a federal program like AmeriCorps, as a condition of being permitted to attend college.

This plan would be politically viable, the authors insist, since it would dispense with deferments and exemptions, and allow draftees to choose their preferred form of involuntary servitude. More importantly, however, by having a pool of conscripts required to serve several years of reserve duty, this system would offer "surge capacity" – that is to say, a large and ever-expanding pool of potential coffin-stuffers.

"Both the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century and the 'progressive' Center for American Progress are calling for adding 100,000 new soldiers," writes Zeese. "During the presidential campaign Senator John Kerry also called for adding tens of thousand more troops to the military services." Lawrence Korb, a former Pentagon official under Ronald Reagan who now serves as a Senior Fellow at CAP, also supports expanding the military by 100,000 troops, and while he opposes a return to the draft at present, he would support conscription – amid agonies of professed reluctance – should we remain mired in Iraq for another year, or the Bush administration choose to extend the blessings of "liberation" to Iran, Syria, or some other country.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/grigg3.html

[Sandpiper]

1. I thought involuntary servitude was abolished

Around the time of the Emancipation Proclamation.

[meisje]

2. It's always the next year for these cospiracies

I thought the draft was going to be this year? Now it's 2006, in 2006, it will be 2007. Same thing with the stock market crash and the 2nd great depression.

[FtWayneBlue]

3. I wondered how the draft board filling was coming along,

but couldn't find anything on their official web site. But there was an online application form for local board member positions. So I filled it out. Three or four days later, I get an official packet to fill out. I am seriously thinking about doing it. The position doesn't pay anything, but heck, those poor kids who are going to get drafted could use a friend on the board. Right?