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This needs to be known by all who have eligible sons and daughters and by all VOTERS!!!!!
I see an exodus to BiafraNigeria. If you are looking for a great “Scare” that will take your teenager home, here it is!
Subject: U.S. Draft expected to start July 15, 2005 Importance: High
The possibility of mandatory drafting for boys and girls (age 18-26) starting June 15 2005, is something, I believe, everyone should know. This literally affects EVERYONE since we all have or know children that will have to go if this bill passes.
If there are children in your family, READ this.
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate (twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so the draft can begin at 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. Details and links follow.
Even those voters who cur! rently 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 - Also, crossing into Canada has already been made very difficult.
Actions, actions, actions: Please send this on to all the parents and teachers you know, and all the aunts and uncles, grandparents, godparents.... And let your children know -- it's their future, and they can be a powerful voice for change!
Please also hahahahaha to your representatives to ask them why they aren't telling their constituents about these bills -- and hahahahaha to newspapers and other media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this important story.
The draft
$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. Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31, 2005 that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for activation.
The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign to fill all 10,350 draft board positions and 11,070 appeals board slots nationwide.. Though this is an unpopular election year topic, mi! litary 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 forw! ard this year, http://www.hslda.org/Legislation/National/2003/S89/default.asp entitled the Universal 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, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the nat! ional 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 foreign 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 until the end of their current semester. Seniors would have until the end of the academic year.
WHAT TO DO:
- Tell all your friends
- Contact your Senators and tell them to oppose these bills
We just can't sit and pretend that by ignoring it, it will go away. We must voice our concerns and create the world we want to live in for our children and their children's children.
___________________ Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom Posts: 96 | From: USA | Registered: Apr 2001
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You have no patriotism for Nigeria. Now, you want your children to become draft dodgers in America. When are you people going to be willing to give back to countries that have helped you?
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quote:When are you people going to be willing to give back to countries that have helped you? - kunle
Fella, the only people or group that epitomize INGRATITUDE are your yoruba/bini folks. We ought not go back too far to see your ungratefulness.
Didn't an Igbo free Awolowo from slammer?
Didn't an Igbo (Pius Okigbo) speak against the incarceration of Awolowo?
Did Awolowo/yoruba show gratitude towards the Igbo for his release?
Didn't an Igbo support Brigadier Ogundipe over Gowon?
Didn't an Igbo made soldiers available to free the Western Region from the stranglehold of the awusa?
Didn't the Igbo support Olu Falae for president?
Didn't the Igbo support June 12 by joining NADECO despite Abiola's arrant "I can do without the Igbo" crap?
Have the yoruba/bini ever shown gratitude?
Haven't you guys encouraged/participated with all who want the Igbo dead?
Tell us again who the ever-blinded INGRATES are!
BTW the topic (DRAFT) does not interest me as far as I’m concerned if these kids due to their status as American born can aspire for the office of the president of the U.S., they can equally serve their country however, little georgie bush’s kids together with the kids of his gang of racists cabinet should too. This is more so if you supported the illegal and unjust invasion of a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 while saudia arabia, pakistan etc the engineers of all terrorism activities are left to continue their devilish agenda of wreaking havoc worldwide.
My kids and yours would hopefully apply for the "Conscientious Objector" waiver if you, like me, have been against this unnecessary use of force with the resultant destruction of a country whose crime was to fall out of American favored list. What a ridiculous inept foreign policy.
___________________ BIAFRA: The land of my ancestors now, yesterday and always. So it will be! Posts: 2482 | From: Ala Igbo | Registered: Apr 2004
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"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of warriors yield to the tongue of the orator." - Cicero.
Quote: --------------------------- "...if these kids due to their status as American born can aspire for the office of the president of the U.S., they can equally serve their country however, little georgie bush’s kids together with the kids of his gang of racists cabinet should too.---MeBiafran. ---------------------------
I couldn't have said it any better. The problem with those who are in the fore to call for violence (even when the same problem can be solved diplomatically) is that they will do everything to dodge ACTION when the die is cast. You can be sure that all those that supported this SENSELESS war in Iraq (icluding the starter of this thread) will never be around to fight when their village in Nigeria is under seige. From the tune of this thread, you can expect same reaction when the America they talk so loftly comes under siege from without or within. Being the NOISEMAKERS that they are, they are good in TALKING and little or nill in ACTING. Their open hypocrisy is to say the least SICKENING. My long stay on this board has indeed helped me understand these folks better. I hope with time you will as well.
Ochiagha, Watch what you say today because you might be reminded of it tomorrow! With every due respect, and without being personal, I think if there's anyone that should complain of his/her kids dying for others that person is certainly not you. For if I recollect correctly, you are one of those who is of the habit of suggesting violence as the ONLY way to solving local and international conflicts (the Iraq debate is one of those), so I wonder why you should now shield your child/ren, or suggest that others do now that those in the American legislature are simply helping you and your type put into action right there in your abord in the U.S. those things you spreech day in and day out on this board. Talk they say is CHEAP and you couldn't have made it any cheaper by your double-speak as portrayed in another thread and contradicted in this. I hope you wont take my words personal. I'm just putting the records straight for yesterday was just a day before.
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quote:Talk they say is CHEAP and you couldn't have made it any cheaper by your double-speak as portrayed in another thread and contradicted in this.
Ooooh no, you got me! But…
What contraction is there in reporting information that the good people of this tread may not be aware of?
Did I generate or initiate the senate bill or am I a senator? Well, I appreciate your devotion to my past and present postings, but the satisfaction you seek is quite obvious……direct response to your colloquialisms!
Instead let me share this with you: "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib, Mahfouz"
___________________ Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom Posts: 96 | From: USA | Registered: Apr 2001
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