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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

It's the same principle. I think a person should always have the optoin of 
opting out of the system. Whether it's not driving on publilc roads, or not 
going to some foreign country to kill people they don't know who never did 
any harm to them...should be an individual choice. I know people who feel 
that the government has 'stolen' the airwaves with the new HDTV requirement, 
and refuse to get converter boxes...opting out of TV...their form of 
protest. We will always have to accept SOME pubic services/involvement and 
participate at some level (file tax forms, have a SS#, etc). I accept much 
of it that because it's the price for living in a civilized country. I think 
wars are stupid and unnecessary, but boys will be boys and will waste tax 
dollars on their macho pissing contests, and if people want to sign up, 
that's their business. Conscription in the military is, to me, the ultimate 
invasion of one's privacy.

Lynn Wigglesworth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] It's almost over


> Who gets to make the decision concerning which war we should or should not 
> be involved.  You just, yesterday, said that a man was wrong for not 
> abiding by the instuctions of elected officials on what he must do to 
> drive an 1/8 mile down a public street, do you now say that every 19 year 
> old,and 22 year old,  and 25 year old gets to decide which battle or war 
> in which they will personally participate?
>
> p.s.  A lot of smart people , including Sciott Nearing, thought we had no 
> business in WWII, until after Pearl Harbor; and then, only with the 
> Japanese
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> --- On Tue, 12/2/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] It's almost over
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 8:18 PM
> > Rob; thanks for saying what I was thinking. I have far more
> > respect for
> > someone who refused to be involved in a war we had no
> > business being
> > in...and for me, that's every war since WWII.
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>
> > To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] It's almost over
> >
> >
> > > It's funny to see how people have judged
> > presidential candidates on
> > > their service or lack of it since Clinton. He was the
> > first president
> > > that came of age in the 1960s.
> > >
> > > I was a kid in the 60s, came into my teens in the 70s.
> > Ever since I
> > > remember, dodging the draft was a good thing.
> > Sometimes I guess I'm in
> > > my own world, but it's still funny to hear people
> > talk about that
> > > being a bad thing. Being a child of people that went
> > back to the land
> > > in the 60s, I just grew up thinking that burning drat
> > cards was a
> > > brave thing to do.
> > >
> > > It's really funny to hear people my parents age
> > (old hippies) talk
> > > about how Clinton or Bush didn't serve. Wasn't
> > that what they admired
> > > in the 60s? I guess not everyone did or they just
> > forgot.
> > >
> > > I remember being 16 or so and a lot of the thought me
> > and my friends
> > > had was what a hard act our generation had to follow
> > with the hippies
> > > and the 60s and all. I don't think we did any
> > better. I guess becoming
> > > Yuppies was just as bad as being at the cusp and then
> > forgetting you
> > > ever got there.
> > >
> > > Rob - Va
> > > Glad I did not do the Yuppie thing.
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