The noose tightens for Universal Military Service

[unhappycamper]

WASHINGTON: ­ Congressman John Kline (R-MN) introduced legislation to alter the National Call to Service Program to remove the Peace Corps as an option for completing an individual’s military enlistment requirement.

The National Call to Service recruitment program was created in December 2002 to allow military recruits to count service in the Peace Corps or Americorps toward the 8 year commitment required of enlisted military personnel.

Many former Peace Corps members are concerned that perceived links between military service and the Peace Corps could jeopardize the safety of Peace Corps Volunteers who provide humanitarian service in remote locations. Kline’s legislation will help differentiate the roles of Peace Corps volunteers from those of enlisted military personnel.

“Thousands of military veterans have served honorably in the Peace Corps following their military careers and will continue to do so,” said Kline. “The goal of this legislation is to ensure the independence of the Peace Corps and the safety of their volunteers.”

Link:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c109:1:./temp/~c109R4GJQT::

[triguy46]

1. What? Being in Iraq is NOT a peace mission??? n/t

[Peace Patriot]

2. Ya know, it's funny. I read through this, trying to understand the motive

of the legislation. The argument makes sense on the surface--that Peace Corps volunteers might be jeopardized by an association with the military. But unhappycamper's title seemed to suggest something else--the hidden motive of forcing military personnel to endure more tours of military duty without the option of Peace Corps service.

So then I looked more closely at the author of the bill. Ah, a Republican. My eye had skipped over "R-MN." Lies. Ulterior motives. Slimebag. Fascist. Selected by Diebold. One of Bush's "pod people" (mindless repeater of Karl Rove "talking points").

That's what I think of Republicans now. I don't just disagree with them. I think of them as lying, hypocritical bastards who have no legitimacy, and I automatically disbelieve every word that comes out of their mouths.

A Democrat--I might have given the benefit of the doubt. (--might be a lying, hypocritical bastard, might not be). Republicans have lost the benefit of the doubt.

I am not an closed minded person. I try to have a large view. But experience, reason and a mountain of facts piled up over the last few years have taught me that we must preemptively distrust and disbelieve anything a Republican politician says, and, not only that, we must try to get ahead of them, anticipate what lying, murderous, greedy crap they're going to pull next, and what methods they're going to use to ram their diabolical policies down our throats.

Democrats I detest because of their failure to warn us about Bushite companies tabulating all our votes with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--and their venal corruption. (I.e., Democratic election officials getting in a week of fun, sun and high-end shopping at the Beverly Hilton, this August, sponsored by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia electronic voting machine companies. Corruption like that.)

When a Democrat speaks, I ask myself: Did Diebold and ES&S "select" him/her as token opposition? Why isn't he/she talking about--screaming about!--Bushites owning and controlling our election system? Ignorance? Fear? Money changing hands? What?

Sometimes I can get past those questions, and listen to their Bush-lite talking points. Sometimes not. But at least they have a chance with me.

Not so Republicans. Every one of them deserves to be wearing an orange jumpsuit, and life imprisonment in Guantanamo Bay. I trust them about as much as I'd trust, say, Charles Manson.

Those bodies of the poor and the black, dead in their wheelchairs in the Superdome, and floating around the streets of New Orleans, have changed everything.

[Peace Patriot]

3. P.S. The bigger Draft--general involuntary conscription--is going to

come later, with the War Democrat that Diebold and ES&S will install in '08. (Bush can't get this done--and they also need someone to run the war more efficiently, keep the war loot flowing, manage the breadlines here at home, stifle any serious financial investigations (or recovery of our funds), and start taking the rap for the Bush Cartel's calamitous, and filthy, thieving, murderous mismanagement--so they can install Jeb in '12.)

(--that is, if we don't throw these election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor'--or a Louisiana levee--sometime soon.)