Re: The return of the Draft in the US.

[dana tierney]

This is a very valid and highly honorable position. It's essentially the same argument that Socrates made when his friends offered to get him out of jail and out of the country. He said that if he accepted the authority of  the Athenian government before it sentenced him to death then he had to accept its sentence. However, I disagreed with him too. They sentenced him to death because he was politically inconvenient and that is wrong. Period.

In the case of military service there is a line somewhere. Is it refuse to serve, refuse to serve in Abu Ghraib, refuse to "stress" prisoners, refuse to make them strip, refuse to beat them? I don't know and I think I would be very arrogant to try to tell *you*. I just know there is a line there somewhere.

Dana

>No.  The people that start these wars are elected.  It's too late at that
>point.  You go and do your duty, and you make sure you vote your beliefs.
>There have always been people opposed to every war.  People that refused to
>be drafted in World War 2.  It's nonsense.  Service is the cost of freedom.
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 1:40 PM
>  To: CF-Community
>  Subject: Re: The return of the Draft in the US.
>
>
>  yeah it is. Unless unless it is an unconscionable war. There was a case to
>be made for refusing to go to Vietnam in my opinion. Especially after My
>Lai.
>
>  >hooahh.
>  >
>  >good answer.
>  >  -----Original Message-----
>  >  From: Won Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  >  Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:41 AM
>  >  To: CF-Community
>  >  Subject: Re: The return of the Draft in the US.
>  >
>  >
>  >  I don't understand the subject of this thread.
>  >
>  >  Do you mean?
>  >  A) The mechanics/law to conduct a draft was abolished and is back now?
>  >
>  >  Then you would be incorrect, because the mechanics/law to conduct a
>draft
>  >  have been in place for a long time.
>  >
>  >  B) They are conducting a draft right now?
>  >
>  >  I'm pretty sure this is not what you meant, but the subject begs the
>  >question.
>  >
>  >  C) Or that there is a strong probability that the US will be conducting
>a
>  >  draft in the neat future?
>  >
>  >  Then I guess the subject should have been The POSSIBLE return of the
>Draft
>  >  in the US as not to give them impression the mechanics of the draft
>were
>  >  not in place before.
>  >
>  >  That said, I do find it rather suspicious that Selective Service is
>  >  receiving additional funding.
>  >  If I'm called to war I would be honor bound to go regardless of my
>  >opinions
>  >  about the war itself.

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