i think the u.s. govt will feel it has no choice but to invade canada once the draft gets reinstated. a haven for draft dodgers must not be allowed (yet another aspect of the counter-counter-culture hysteria which has characterized the reagan era).
-chris b. In a message dated Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:40:26, Darryl McMahon writes: >The growing number of disputes where the U.S. is choosing which legal decisions >it >will respect (in their favour) and ignore (inconvenient), e.g. fisheries, >softwood, >Devil's lake, can be taken as an indication of U.S. willingness to invoke >"gunboat >diplomacy" at their discretion, even with their "friends". > >I don't think the U.S. military will lack for resources to invade northward >once >the C-in-C gives the order. > >Darryl McMahon > >Doug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Would you be willing to be shot or hanged first? Given the typical >> methods of authoritarian governments, that's the crucial question. >> >> In 1812 coercion was not necessary; propaganda alone sufficed. The >> American immigrants who made up most of the population of the Niagara >> peninsula found it hard to take the war seriously, until the American >> militia started burning and looting. By the end of the war the Niagara >> frontier was a burned-out desert on both sides. >> >> Doug Woodard >> St. Catharines, Ontario >> >> >> On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Mike Weaver wrote: >> >> > In all seriousness, can you really imagine US citizens taking up arms >> > against Canada? No one I know would. I would go to jail first. >> >> [snip] _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
