I just received this email from my friend:
There is pending legislation in the House and Senate
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>(twin bills: S 89 and HR 163) which will time the program's initiation so
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>the draft can begin at early as Spring 2005 -- just after the 2004
>presidential election.
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>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.
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>See the following websites to view Bills:
><http://www.hslda.org/legislation>
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>Congress brought twin bills, S. 89 and HR 163 forward, entitled the
>Universal National Service Act of 2003,
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>"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 national defense and homeland
>security, and for other purposes." These active bills currently sit in
>the committee on armed services.
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>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.
>This plan, among other things, eliminates higher education as a shelter
>and includes women in the draft.
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>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!
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>Please also contact your representatives to ask them why they aren't
>telling their constituents about these bills -- and contact newspapers and
>other media outlets to ask them why they're not covering this important
>story.
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>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
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>June 15, 2005. Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31, 2005
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>that the system, which has lain dormant for decades, is ready for
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>activation.
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>Please see website: <http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html> to view
>the
>sss annual performance plan - fiscal year 2004.
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>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, military experts and
>influential members of congress are suggesting that if Rumsfeld's
>prediction of a "long, hard slog" in Iraq and Afghanistan
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>[and a permanent state of war on "terrorism"] proves accurate,
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>the U.S. may have no choice but to draft.
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><http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html>
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>WHAT TO DO:
>- Tell all your friends!!!!!
>Contact your Senators & Reps and tell them to oppose these bills!!!
>For the full list of Senate & House Representatives (53) and websites,
>go
>to:
>http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=ca!



====================== I think that if the republicans who support the war in congress won't even send their own sons and daughters, why should the rest of the american people who don't support the war have to go fight? (See Farenheit 9/11)