Mothers Against the Draft

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The HCPDS was enacted to "provide a fair and equitable draft of doctors, nurses, medical technicians and those with certain other health care skills if, in some future emergency, the military’s existing medical capability proved insufficient and there is a shortage of volunteers."

Cold Fusion: Liberals and Neocons for a Draft The debate over the size of the military inside-the-beltway is how to increase the number of troops by 100,000, not whether to do so. At a recent debate on the draft sponsored by the Center for American Progress, the views range from reinstating the draft to enhancing economic incentives to increase enlistment.	Draft Needed to Bail Out Neocons The U.S. desperately needs to escape from Iraq before America is sucked into a wider conflict that will necessitate a draft. Once the Bush administration has created so much instability in the Middle East that a rising Islamic revolution is afoot, the stakes will be too high for the U.S. to be able to withdraw.
The Price of Patriotism … Two recent news stories underscore the issue. First, the Washington Post reportsthat military recruiters are working night and day to fill the ranks of the U.S. government’s "volunteer forces." In spite of signing bonuses of $20,000.00, there are still not enough enlistees. When asked why recruiting is so tough, military recruiters – not yet graduated from the Karl Rove and Karen Hughes spin school – answer simply and truthfully: "the war."	Sacrificial Lambs The Bush administration’s "No Child Left Behind Act" includes a provision preparing for a new draft by requiring schools to collect contact information for every student on behalf of the Selective Service System. And it’s a foregone conclusion that an administration determined to leave no child alone will devise some way to gather homeschoolers in its nets.
'Progressives' for Slavery The inside-the-Beltway debate over the size of the military is about how to increase the number of troops by 100,000, not whether to do so. At a recent debate on the draft sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the views ranged from reinstating the draft to enhancing economic incentives for enlistment	Despite doubts of a draft, the possibility raises fears If people agree with a war, the Army should have no trouble finding volunteers. But when the public disapproves of a war, conscription is the card left up Uncle Sam's sleeve. The Selective Service System is, essentially, a giant dog leash tethered to Americans.
Will we have to re-institute the draft? If America's involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan continues much further some hard choices are going to have to be made. Among them is reinstatement of the draft. And that should send chills down the spines of young men - and women - who are of draft age today.	Defending liberty with compulsion The latest calls for conscription go farther than schemes of the past. Gerber explicitly wants to swell the ranks of Americorps with conscripts. Moskos and Glastris plan to use draftees as border guards, customs agents and even FBI agents. They would subject us to social workers and law-enforcement officers who were forced into their jobs under threat of fine or imprisonment.
Don’t Bring Slavery Back to America Some liberals oppose military conscription but believe that mandatory civil service is a wholesome policy for a "social democracy." While it is true that being forced to clean up highways and work in recycling centers is probably preferable to being forced into enemy territory, such mandatory service is still a form of slavery, and has no place at all in a free society, or even in the partly free society into which the United States has degenerated. That "social democracies" in Europe demand impose forced labor on their youth speaks of their failure to embrace liberty, and should not be seen as a good reason to bring such oppression to America.	The Janissaries are Coming Empires require standing armies, with professional soldiers, whose loyalty is to the Emperor. Wars of conquest require Conscription, Deficit Spending, and Emergency Wartime Powers. Wars for purposes of defense are never short on manpower, while wars of conquest cannot long be sustained using volunteers who have loyalties to anything beyond war itself and the power it accrues. But they are very expensive to maintain, and your professionals get ideas.