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2004-09-29 Home Front: Politix
Kerry Proposed Mandatory Service for High School Students
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Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-29 10:22:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#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||   2004-09-29 10:37:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 10:41:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Wasn't this supposed to be kept secret till after the election?
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-09-29 10:48:49 AM||   2004-09-29 10:48:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Shhhhhhhh Mrs. D., YES!
Posted by BigEd 2004-09-29 11:28:29 AM||   2004-09-29 11:28:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-09-29 11:45:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 11:51:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 So the Conscientious Objectors would go to the military?
Posted by ed 2004-09-29 12:05:56 PM||   2004-09-29 12:05:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Wait, isn't that what the Soviet Union did?
Posted by The Doctor 2004-09-29 12:13:04 PM||   2004-09-29 12:13:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 12:32:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2004-09-29 12:36:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 12:37:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 What do they have for dessert in the Kerry Youth Camps?

KY Jelly!
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-29 1:25:07 PM||   2004-09-29 1:25:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Dammit, blown line. I didn't have my lucky aloha shirt on.

Posted by Shipman 2004-09-29 1:28:51 PM||   2004-09-29 1:28:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 We need a RantBurg Line of FrankWear, I want signatures.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-29 1:29:55 PM||   2004-09-29 1:29:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 2:22:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 2:26:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 2:33:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 oops...that was me :-)
Posted by Frank G  2004-09-29 2:33:55 PM||   2004-09-29 2:33:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 4:06:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2004-09-29 4:31:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#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||   2004-09-29 4:32:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2004-09-29 4:53:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 John Kerry spent his manditory High School service on Alpine slopes. Tough duty.
Posted by BigEd 2004-09-29 6:13:52 PM||   2004-09-29 6:13:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/]  2004-09-29 7:11:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 
Maybe Kerry is, deep down, a communist
Kalle, 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||   2004-09-29 7:43:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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