KC Star, MO: DRAFT BOARDS ready if call for conscripts goes out

[Dems Will Win]

Draft boards ready if call for conscripts goes out

By SCOTT CANON

The Kansas City Star


“I'd give it my best. Obviously, you're dealing with someone's life.”
Hope Davis, a member of a draft board in Lee's Summit, on her service if a military draft were to be resumed

In case a draft ever comes back, draft board members gather from across a state once, sometimes twice, a year for training. They are reminded of the nuanced rules that would determine who could be exempt from military service and then chew over mock cases.

“It does sharpen your critical-thinking skills,” said Zelma Sully of rural Wyandotte County. “But there's no real pressure.”

Someday, the Selective Service System emphasizes, Sully and more than 10,000 other volunteers nationwide could be called to listen to real cases and make real decisions about who should fight America's wars — a process dormant since the Nixon administration.



http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/8736443.htm?1c

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

(Bush spending $28 million to reactivate DRAFT this summer and fall for Spring 2005 Trigger Resolution--no new bills needed BTW! read this and FIND THE HIDDEN BOMBSHELLS LIKE THE AS STARTED UP AND THE MEDICAL DRAFT COMPLETELY READY. LADIES FIRST! -- NURSES WILl BE FIRST I THINK: http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html )

[bluestateguy]

1. Are any DUers members of draft boards?

Not applicants, but actual members. We'd like to hear what you know.

[AndyTiedye]

2. What if DU'ers Pack the Draft Boards and Exempt Everybody?

[bluestateguy]

3. That would be my idea

In the early 1980's, at least in northern California, the draft boards were stacked with peace activists, but their terms are expiring now.

My agenda would be a little more sinister. I'd exempt everybody unless the person was a proven chickenhawk with a bullshit excuse: pimple on the ass, trick knee, Daddy gave a lot of money to the Bush campaign, etc.

Then again, I just couldn't bring myself to get an application. As a draft board member you make decisions for other people that have literally have a life or death impact.