Onward Christian Soldiers

Here are marching cadences taught to solders:

Children sucking on a mother's tit,
Wounded gooks down in a pit,
Dow Chemical doesn't give a shit,
Napalm sticks to kids.

Bombadiers don't care a bit,
Just as long as the pieces fit,
When you stuff the bodies in a pit,
Napalm sticks to kids.

Enjoy the entire rhyme here...

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Immigration & War

We've been here before...

Austin offered Parker the opportunity to move to Nashville, Tennessee, where music was becoming big business, but for reasons unknown Parker turned him down.^[9] Instead he decided to stay in Temple Terrace, Florida with his family, perhaps to avoid having to fill in paperwork that could expose his illegal status.^[9] Within a year, however, he had the opportunity to become a legal citizen within the United States by way of the 1940 Alien Registration Act;^[10] a bill passed by the United States Government to allow illegal aliens the chance to become US citizens in return for their promise to fight for the country during World War II, if required.^[10] Parker decided against registering, possibly to prevent his previous Army record from becoming public.

A great place to find good fighters, immigrants.

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Think About It Now

Here is a fellow who received his draft card a year earlier than I did...  1- H status means he was not drafted but available until he turned 26.  Mine is 1 - O, the most radical conscientious objector status (women and children first.)  Wikipedia has a nice rundown on the selective service.  Note how the names collected today are turned over to the advertising arm of the armed forces recruiters.  Today is easy to tailor and ad to prey on a particular persons preferences.  I'd like to see screenshots of ads various young men get, and comments as to what the young men find appealing in the ads.


Without a draft, there will never be an anti-war movement.


Burning draft cards.

Selecting Illegal Immigrants for the Draft

I though this was interesting...

If you are a man ages 18 through 25 and living in the U.S., then you must register with Selective Service.

So if just visiting, you might get snatched for the military?  I guess if you have a visa "document" then no problem...  but working here, a migrant farm labor, you must register.  Yikes!  We used to carry our draft cards lest we be stopped and whisked away until further proof of our status.

ATTENTION, UNDOCUMENTED MALES
& IMMIGRANT SERVICING GROUPS!

Selective Service does not collect any information which would indicate whether or not you are undocumented. You want to protect yourself for future U.S. citizenship and other government benefits and programs by registering with Selective Service. Do it today.

If you are a man ages 18 through 25 and living in the U.S., then you must register with Selective Service. It’s the law. According to law, a man must register with Selective Service within 30 days of his 18th birthday. Selective Service will accept late registrations but not after a man has reached age 26. You may be denied benefits or a job if you have not registered. You can register at any U.S. Post Office and do not need a social security number.When you do obtain a social security number, let Selective Service know. Provide a copy of your new social security number card; being sure to include your complete name, date of birth, Selective Service registration number, and current mailing address; and mail to the Selective Service System, P.O. Box 94636, Palatine, IL 60094-4636.

That word "man" is black in the original...  I guess be eligible for the draft makes you a man.

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Still... Not Drafting Women

Although the Selective Service has plans for all people with any medical skills to be drafted, including 63 yo women gynecologists, the Selective Service clarifies:

Even though the Secretary of Defense has decided to allow women in combat jobs, the law has not been changed to include this. Consequently, only men are currently required to register by law with Selective Service during ages 18 thru 25. Women still do not register. (January 24, 2013)

But Leon Panetta may have changed that:

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently announced the administration's intent to eliminate military women's exemptions from direct ground combat battalions. Unless Congress intervenes, a future court will impose Selective Service obligations on unsuspecting civilian women, on the same basis as men, despite findings that point to differences in women's physiology and performance capabilities. This will drive down tough training standards and weaken the military.

The selective service website is moving awfully slow.  Perhaps inquiring minds are alarmed.

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Soldier Suffrage

In Hitler's Germany, soldiers gave up the right to vote.  I am not sure of the significance, but it is surely of interest.

In USA soldiers give up the right to vote also.  They may fill out a form, but it is unlikely to be counted. No doubt because they would all vote for Ron Paul.  How come some countries make it difficult, in word or deed, for actual soldiers to vote.  See how come soldiers who despised Hitler came to serve him with their lives.

O yes,  just following orders.

More Military Roles for Women

Once we get used to women in the military, in combat roles, then drafting women too will be a natural consequence.  The present draft proposals have a version that includes women.

Now, why would women want to be in the military?  Of course I have heard all of those reasons and they are ridiculous in light of a better question.  Given what only women are capable of, why would they waste themselves in a life in the military?  There is no job in the military a man cannot do.  Soon women too.  But, there is no job in the military that would offer a women as much challenge, interest, goodness, benefit and glory, if women want that, than raising a family.

As an advertising campaign, how about: Women in the Military - Be Less Than You Can Be!

How The Draft Works

The draft was revived in 1969 and ended in 1976.

A draft dodger is one who tries to avoid being drafted.  People would flee to Canada or Sweden, or hide out in Mexico, or try some scam like pretend to be homosexual, starve themselves to get below weight, feign being insane, or lie about being able to type 120 words a minute so they would not put you in combat, they would put you in an office some where, say Germany.  You could get a student deferment, meaning as long as you were in school, you could delay being drafted until you finished college, but then you had to go. Some people were exempt from the draft, such as anyone with an oil engineering degree, because in the United States, since our wars are about controlling oil, we do not risk people with oil-related skills in war.  The Vietnam war was about controlling the oil reserves in the Paracel and Spratly Islands.  As US forces fled Vietnam, Vietnam was obliged to defend the islands against the Chinese.

Elvis Presley was drafted into the military, so his career had to be put on hold.  Muhammed Ali was drafted and refused to serve, so he was imprisoned.

We had to carry draft cards to if we were stopped by police or military police would could prove we were not obliged to be in the military.  In those years military police and Shore Patrol (Navy MPs) also patrolled the streets of major cities, to back up the police when it can to trouble with military personnel.

Conscientious Objectors are not draft dodgers.  The Selective Service i in charge of randomly selecting people to be subject to the military draft.  Conscientious Objectors are not subject to the draft, so there is no draft to dodge.  Some draft dodgers pretend to be conscientious objectors, but conscientious objection is fairly easy to determine, and s it is one of the least likely means to avoid the draft.

Conscientious objectors do not avoid the draft, because they are not subject to the draft.

The way the draft worked is they pull birthdays of a given year out of a drum (like a lottery) and the sequence of birthdays pulled are assigned numbers 1-365.  If May 10 is the first day pulled out, your draft number is 1.  This continues for all dates. Now they pull a number between 1-365 out of one drum and a birthday out of another to make it doubly random.

Then the military decides how many people it needs that year, and a decision is made how many birthdays need to be drafted to meet the needs of the war machine.  Say they decide taking the first 103 birthdays will give them enough people for the year, then announce with a birthday lottery number of 1 through 103 gets drafted into the military.  Now just because you are drafted does not mean you will be assigned to combat, but just about everyone in combat was drafted to be there.

Each year they run a lottery to make available however many draftees are needed for the year.

As to timing, the way it works is the numbers they pull in say 1972 is for the people they will take in 1973.   In essence at that time you got drafted at 18 and put into the military at 19.  The people drafted for the war in 1972 were fighting in 1973.  Now it is 19 to go into the military at 20.

In the Vietnam era draft I was 18 in 1973.    You do not wait until the draft you to get out of the draft (you cannot get out of the selection process, only the draft.) I informed the Selective Service of my conscientious objector scruples in 1973, at the time I was obliged to register for the draft.  In a 1973 lottery, I would be drafted in 1974 if my number was low, and as it turned out, I did get a very low number (023).  Some people did nothing and hoped for the best.

A happy surprise in 1973 is the military did not take any of the drafted, but the lottery continued.  And with defeat of the United States forces in Vietnam in 1975, another surprising event, the draft was ended in 1976

Presently it is an all volunteer military, in the sense you can volunteer to go in, but once you are in you cannot get out, like a gang.  And those that tend to volunteer tend to be people with few other options.

Life of a Slave Girl

Dover has put out a reprint of an 1861 book by a former fugitive slave, and her life.  It does tell a story of horror, and she takes you there where she was, and how she lived.  How to live and the choices made in such horror, and how other people behave in such a malformed society is especially good in this book.

She goes on to talk about the harm done to the slave holders, how the very fact of owning slaves causes rot within the families of the slave holders.

Her observations on the Nat Turner episode are a caution for today.  Slavery concentrated power in the hands of a few by taking the earnings of the slaves and giving it to the master.  This wealth was dissipated on malinvestment, and eventually war (but this whole story is before the civil war.)  The poor whites who could find no work, for slaves did it all, lived in misery in the backwoods.  If and when there was a uppity slave, or even a hint of rebellion, they would pour out of the woods to punish the blacks and defend the system that keeps them in poverty.

We see this today in the TSA, the victims supporting the system that traps them.

In The Beginning...

The time to investigate whether you are a conscientious objector is before you register with the selective service.  It is much better to register and declare yourself a conscientious objector now than to ignore the Selective Service and try to make the claim later.  Get ahead of the game.