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"Selective Service" looming
Submitted by Matt on Sun, 2008-08-10 23:18
Despite Hillary's ridiculous assertion that woman are the primary victims of war, the truth is, it's men for the most part who do the fighting and dying. And we are on the verge of going back into that in a big way.
Selective Service, The Draft, Conscription, whatever you want to call it, is involuntary servitude that governments place men into. At the risk of being accused of at least being a pessimist and at most a seditionist, we are on the verge of WWIII, and thius on the verge of a new draft, which to this day is applied only to men of a certain age. I suppose I may also be accused of being overly dramatic as well, fine. Read this and then tell me I'm rushing to judgment.
The author of that blog knows his facts. As of this writing, his latest update reads in part:
'Georgia calls for US help; Russian Air Force bombs Georgian air bases. DEBKA, the Israeli strategy and military site, states that Israeli military officers are advising the Georgian armed forces in combat operations and that 1,000 Israelis are in-combat on the side of Georgia at this time.
Kuwait has activated its "Emergency War Plan" as it and other Gulf nations prepare for the likelihood of a major regional war in the Middle East involving weapons of mass destruction.'
Note the Universal National Service Act of 2007 is currently in the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
The blog author urges people to contact their government officials and tell them to pull back from the brink. I think that's a good idea. The lives of many men are at stake.
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Being a seditionist ain't all that bad!
I have been preaching action against the system for a long time. The only way we will ever be able to live with dignity and respect is if we govern ourselves. It's about time we quit letting them divide and conguer, and unite to overcome! The military industrial complex is gearing up to rape the population again, or to be more precise they are just going to continue. Industrialized society is falling apart all over the globe. We live in interesting times Folks. I just hope we can rise to the occasion!
David A. DeLong
Why isn't this in the news?
I know the author says the MSM is focused on the Olympics, but since the date on this article is 8/7 you would think it would have at least been in Sunday's L.A. Times 8/11 (though I only read the first page so far - I usually make that paper last until Thursday). Also why does the Earl of Shaftesbury (or whatever) give out a "yahoo.com" email address?
This one comment was interesting:
"I'm in the national guard, and I've seen the opening moves of this chess game played out on 9/11. Iraq and Afghanistan are just staging areas so we can out-flank Iran from opposite directions"
With a naval group that size headed to Iran, how can the Olympics have completely overshadowed it? Or maybe it was on a later page and/or the MSM has not connected all the dots yet?
-ax
The Democrats are in on this too - check this dated 7/9/08
"HR 362, sponsored by Rep. Gary Ackerman, a New York Democrat, calls for the president to enact more draconian economic sanctions against Iran. These include an embargo against any imports of refined petroleum. (While Iran is of course a major exporter of oil, it imports at least 40% of its refined petroleum.) The wording of the Resolution is chilling in the extreme: “Congress… demands that the President initiate an international effort to immediately and dramatically increase the economic, political and diplomatic pressure on Iran to verifiably suspend its nuclear enrichment activities by… prohibiting the export to Iran of all refined petroleum products; imposing stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains, and cargo entering or departing Iran; and prohibiting the international movement of all Iranian officials not involved in negotiating the suspension of Iran’s nuclear program.” The resolution is moving quickly through the House and could pass as early as this week.
The “stringent inspection requirements” listed would require a naval blockade, thereby constituting an act of war.
"There is more support now than there was a year ago in Congress, especially among the Democrats, for military action against Iran. Thus HR 362’s co-sponsors include 96 House Democrats and 111 House Republicans. These are the same Democrats whom Americans voted into Congress, in November 2006, as majorities in both houses, based on what voters believed to be the Democrats’ opposition to war in the Middle East."
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/5562
-ax
manonthestreet It's
manonthestreet
It's difficult to find a country that the USA or Britain have not at sometime either occupied or was been at war with. So stuffed up with their own innate feeling superiority that they are quite prepared to set the world on fire. Sadly some in the MM are sort of attracted to war which they in some way think of as manly. They are also patriotic. This is ludicrous. There is no way to be both patriotic and anti feminist. There is only one USA and one UK and they are feminist. The idea that by going to war then they will again regain the respect of women is madness. One more war will see the permanent defeat of men which will last for ever.
MSM
With a naval group that size headed to Iran, how can the Olympics have completely overshadowed it? Or maybe it was on a later page and/or the MSM has not connected all the dots yet?
The MSM is owned by five corporations. Five small groups determine how the (pre-internet) US population interprets the world around them. Think about that for a minute. They sold us the Iraq War by parroting any propaganda from the administration without double-checking the facts (or even single-checking).
The truth is that these five corporations WANT war. It's good for ratings as well as good for their other interests. I know that at least one of them has connections with the Military-Industrial Complex. Don't ever expect the MSM to openly speak out against yet ANOTHER mistake with that hornet's nest over there.
I agree, but
accordingly, the MSM should want to generate ratings using predictions of war - they should have at least mentioned it by today (Tuesday - Pacific Time), it seems? Again, maybe it's not on A-1. That's about all I read anymore.
-ax