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  • From: bendy <bendyatlostpladotnet AT example.org>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Message to Ralph Nader
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:49:31 -0400

grady AT ibiblio.org wrote:
Yes, but Ralph doesn't care about all that stuff anymore. Now he cares about keeping our Young People free from being drafted to fight in Iraq:

I'm going to walk into a minefield and suggest that the only way America could avoid this sort of mess in the future is to have manditory national service, thus stopping the rightward drift of the military, and the notion that they're paid to die, should some muckety-muck have another unsubstantiated hunch.

I'm not sure I believe this, but I suspect it. No fucking exemptions for anyone, tho' you could do Americorps type stuff if you had conscientious objections, etc.

It's the *no fucking exemptions* part that would be almost impossible to implement, if history serves as a lesson (and it certainly has been for the last week or so....)

It's socialism, folks! Bring it up during the next Thanksgiving dinner argument with the relatives. It'll baffle 'em.

Bendy




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