Ive been keeping up on this one... and i got a few bones to pick with this article..
1. the headline states "The Draft will Start in June 2005" (notice, capitolized are "draft, start, june 2005") ... nobody knows if this will pass, not the writer, not you, not me. 2. "the draft can begin as early as spring 2005". Love how they use all encompassing season words to put a little emphasis on "early" 2005. June 15th actuall happens to be during the last week of spring... misdirection for sensationalism. pheh. 3. The administration is qietly trying to get these bills passed now while the public's attention is on thre elections". Darn those secretive bastards! theyre so slick... that everybody knows about this! 4. "$28 million has been added to the selective Selective Service System budget to prepare for a military draft." I think it should be noted that over 10 million of that is for "Enhance external and internal customer service " 5. "Selective Service must report to Bush on March 31,2005" They know who's gonna win the election? 6. "The pentagon has quietly begun a public campaign" Contradiction in terms? 7. "Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam era." True, but it's still pretty easy to dodge if a person really doesnt want to go. http://www.theorator.com/bills108/hr163.html sections 6 and seven define the details of who's exempt and whatnot. 8. Thus far the article has mentioned "regardless of gender" or "women" a couple of times... I really don't see why anyone should get preferential treatment by the government based upon their gender. If you guys want to do something to change this... call up your representatives. if it doesn't pass the house of reps... it doesn't pass. it's that simple. If it doesn't pass the house of Senate, it doesn't pass. So Call your senators too! If the president at the time doesn't sign it, it doesn't pass. Contact the cantidates! If it passes and you STILL don't want it... start up a referendum. There's 4 opportunities here for this thing to get shot down hard. All opinions aside.. was it really nessecary for the article to exaggerate, contradict itself and pretend to be phychic about whoever the president will be in the future? Sorry folks... it pisses me off when I see real issues like this manipulated to sound better or worse than they actually are. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger ___________________________________________________________________ The DJ Denise mailing list http://www.djdenise.com/ The DJ Denise forum http://www.djdenise.com/forum/
