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| Kerry Proposed Mandatory Service for High School Students |
| 2004-09-29 |
| Via The Cracker Barrel Philosopher. EFL. NOTE: The link leads to an archived page, so it may not last. John Kerry Outlines Plan to Require Service for High School Students Part of 100 days Plan to Enlist One Million Americans in National Service A Year *snip* On September 11th, 2001, America experienced the most terrible and deadly attack in its history. John Kerry believes we need to think big and do better and get more young Americans serving the nation. And what's his magic plan that will somehow prevent a massive, deadly attack? Drum roll, please: As part of his 100 day plan to change America, John Kerry will propose a comprehensive service plan that includes requiring mandatory service for high school students and four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of national service. [emphasis added] Yeah, that'll scare the terrorists. I'll switch my vote to Kerry immediately! Apparently this page no longer appears on his web site. Wonder why that is? Think some enterprising reporter will ask him the next time he brings up the draft lie? Naaahh, me neither. |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
#25 Maybe Kerry is, deep down, a communistKalle, I think that was established 30 years ago. And it's not so deep. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-29 7:43:06 PM |
| #24 Sounds like what the Vietnamese Communists have been enforcing on kids. Maybe Kerry is, deep down, a communist. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2004-09-29 7:11:12 PM |
| #23 John Kerry spent his manditory High School service on Alpine slopes. Tough duty. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-29 6:13:52 PM |
| #22 It's particularly insane because it explicitly calls for the drafting of minors. That's wrong on so many levels, I can't even start in on it. I'm not sure how it's any worse than forced labor for adults. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-09-29 4:53:46 PM |
| #21 Yes, let's only dragoon kiddies who can't vote! One Hundred and Forty years and the same party still supports slavery! Raptor - just awaiting a family with legal representation to sue the hell out of any system which thinks it can ignor the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the 13th Admendment. Only have to win once to ruin any organization which thinks that forced labor equals volunteer labor. |
| Posted by: Don 2004-09-29 4:32:29 PM |
| #20 2 years of socialist/communist indoctrination is what he is planning. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-29 4:31:10 PM |
| #19 Shhhh don't tell Kerry's webmaster: User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / If he posts more nonsense on his site this could come in handy :-) |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2004-09-29 4:06:25 PM |
| #18 oops...that was me :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-29 2:33:55 PM |
| #17 RantBurg Line of FrankWear I'm big on Cooke Street (at Costco) and Big Dogs :-) |
| Posted by: Dead and Non-Existent 2004-09-29 2:33:12 PM |
| #16 Also should have an Athenian feature: forced five-year exile for not less than 100 citizens of the polis, as per write-in, nationwide absolute majority vote of the citizenry each November. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-29 2:26:55 PM |
| #15 How about the Heinlein solution?: No mandatory service, military or civilian, but no vote either. Serve 4 years, get a vote. Works for me. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-09-29 2:22:43 PM |
| #14 We need a RantBurg Line of FrankWear, I want signatures. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-29 1:29:55 PM |
| #13 Dammit, blown line. I didn't have my lucky aloha shirt on. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-29 1:28:51 PM |
| #12 What do they have for dessert in the Kerry Youth Camps? KY Jelly! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-29 1:25:07 PM |
| #11 Probably has in mind sending tag teams of 22 year-olds into the benighted hinterland to lead sensitivity training seminars. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-29 12:37:28 PM |
| #10 So it's more in the nature of a corvee instead. I see. So they're peasants, not draftees. Very reassuring, I'm sure. Little bastards have too much free time on their hands, anyways. You know what they say - "Idle hands vote Republican". |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-09-29 12:36:55 PM |
| #9 Uh, guys, I'm pretty sure Kerry's "national service" has nothing to do with the military. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-29 12:32:50 PM |
| #8 Wait, isn't that what the Soviet Union did? |
| Posted by: The Doctor 2004-09-29 12:13:04 PM |
| #7 So the Conscientious Objectors would go to the military? |
| Posted by: ed 2004-09-29 12:05:56 PM |
| #6 My step-daughter tells me this a reqiurment for High School Graduation in Mo. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2004-09-29 11:51:17 AM |
| #5 Strange, it's way the hell down in an otherwise unexceptional chunk of meaningless verbiage. I would guess that one of the draft loons works for the Kerry website, and slipped it in when s/he thought no-body was looking. It's particularly insane because it explicitly calls for the drafting of minors. That's wrong on so many levels, I can't even start in on it. It's insane enough that I suspected a dirty trick, but I can find the url in question still on state-party "youth vote" websites, and the page is dead on the Kerry site - not what you'd expect if the archived page was a forgery based on an existing, identically named page. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2004-09-29 11:45:37 AM |
| #4 Shhhhhhhh Mrs. D., YES! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-29 11:28:29 AM |
| #3 Wasn't this supposed to be kept secret till after the election? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 10:48:49 AM |
| #2 Sounds an awful lot like a... ummm... draft. Only instead of going into the military, you can go into a labor battalion. |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-09-29 10:41:26 AM |
| #1 Mandatory service? And I suppose that conscientious objectors will be able to fulfill their duty in the Peace Corps? F*cking socialist. |
| Posted by: BH 2004-09-29 10:37:10 AM |