DO NOT confuse the Rangel DRAFT bill with the NEW BUSH DRAFT ACTIVITY!

[Dems Will Win]

Don't be confused by the Rangel DRAFT PROTEST BILL and the new BUSH SKILLS AND COMBAT DRAFT ACTIVITY that I've been reporting on. It's easy to get mixed up because both would draft women and both would expand the age up to 34 from 25. BUT Rangel's bill is a protest bill and hasn't a PRAYER of passing because it DRAFTS WOMEN for COMBAT.

The GOP hates that idea. Rangel proposed it because he knew it wouldn't pass but it would make it

The NEW BUSH SKILLS DRAFT would only DRAFT women for NON-COMBAT skills job.

They are two different animals.

The SSS secret Issue Paper which was an agenda for a 2003 top-level meeting between the head of the SSS and Deputy Undersecretary Abell in charge of Personnel and Readiness of the DoD, see: http://www.blatanttruth.org/selective_service091304.pdf

It's important that we not mix these up.

Here are the differences between the RANGEL PROTEST BILL and the secretive behind-the-scenes activity at the SSS and the DoD to ready not only a BUSH COMBAT DRAFT in 2005 but also a BUSH SKILLS DRAFT and BUSH MEDICAL DRAFT in 2006 or sooner.

RANGEL PROTEST BILL



1. Drafts Women for combat as well as men, 18-34
   
   
2. Does not draft for skills
   



ACTUAL BUSH SSS ACTIVITY TOWARD A 2005 DRAFT




1. Could draft MEN ONLY for combat, 18-25 (Current law)
   
   
2. "Groundwork being laid" (SSS Spokesman Amon) for a NON-COMBAT SKILLS DRAFT, men and women age 18-34. 2-year process to gear up SKILLS DRAFT started nearly 2 YEARS AGO in Feb. 2003, meaning a skills draft would be ready in 2005. (a new law wuold be passed if Bush gets back in)
   
   
3. The MEDICAL DRAFT registration data collection is also going to be readied for operational use in 2005 by using the SKILLS DRAFT work they've done and make the reg card you'd fill out at the Post Office contain all the listed medical skills. This means the Medical draft would be ready in 2005, men and women age 20-44. (This draft like the current combat draft for men 18-25, is already the law of the land)
   
   
4. The secret Issue Paper actually proposes being able to call a SKILLS and MEDICAL DRAFT WITHOUT calling a combat draft.
   

The biggest difference of course is that the RANGEL PROTEST BILL will NEVER happen and the NEW BUSH DRAFT has already begun gearing up for 2005.

SKILLS DRAFT AND NEW COMBAT DRAFT TIMELINE

Feb. 11 2003 - Top-level meeting between the head of the SSS and Deputy Undersecretary Abell in charge of Personnel and Readiness of the DoD on the SKILLS DRAFT. This is the meeting of the secret Issue Paper, revealed by the Freedom of Information Act in May. The SSS goes back encouraged enough to do some more planning.

Summer 2003 - Drive to start filling DRAFT BOARD vacancies by asking current board members to find new ones.

Fall 2003 - DoD announces critical skills shortages in linguists, computer experts and engineers. SSS Director Brodsky orders the designing of the SKILLS DRAFT procedures, the reg card and the massive database needed to track every young American under 35 and their skills. Brodsky, who "plays" JE McNeil and other anti-draft leaders by calling them regularly and shmoozing them, lies to McNeil telling her that in February of 2003 the SSS had to "justify their existence" before a hostile committee--when in reality the SSS and DOD were having the SKILLS DRAFT meeting and he himself had just started designing the new system and making it his top priority.

Sept 2003 - Draft board recruitment ad goes up on Web.

November 2003 - Draft board ad scrubbed!

Dec. 2003 - Brodsky announces the SKILLS DRAFT to be the "top priority' of the SSS in newsletter and tells of rapid progress to come.

March 13, 2004 - Word of SKILLS DRAFT leaks out in a SF Chronicle story and the SSS admits it and tells reporters it’s just a planning contingency. In an attempt to throw the press off, the SSS also says it would take 2 years to gear up and work out the kinks for the SKILLS DRAFT and that there is no funding for it. Eric Rosenberg, the reporter on the story, finds out about the Feb. 11 meeting Issue Paper and files a Freedom of Information Act request to get it.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/13/MNG905K1BC1.DTL


May 1, 2004 – Article on SKILLS DRAFT leaves out key points of how skills conscription would be expanded to fill labor shortages throughout Dept of Homeland Security, 1/3 of government, how the SKILLS DRAFT can be called without a combat draft, how SKILLS INDUCTEES will be inducted within a mere 90 days of reauthorization, that the SSS wanted to “promptly” change the very MISSION of the SSS and so on. The article does, however, reveal many major point of sweeping plan. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/171522_draft01.html

Sept 13, 2004 – Issue Paper agenda memo of key Feb 2003 meeting posted on the Web at http://www.blatanttruth.org/selective_service091304.pdf

2004 – MOCK DRAFT LOTTERY HELD, SAMPLE MEDICAL EXAM REPORT ORDERS ISSUED TO MAIL LIST. Alternative Service geared up for first time in 31 years! Papers to place Conscientious Objectors with employers actually drawn up. SSS brought up to 95% operational capability, full Medical draft capability set for 2005, all DRAFT BOARD vacancies filled by Spring 2005! On March 31, 2005, the SSS Director must report to the Congress that the entire system is primed and ready to open 2,000 draft board offices and start inducting within 75 days, or June 15, 2005.

BUSH ’04 = DRAFT ‘O5

“There will be no draft when John Kerry is President.” - John Edwards

[bowens43]

1. Rangal is the only one to propose a draft.

Rangle IMO is an asshole. If he had his way my son would be dying for bushes oil buddies. ANYONE who proposes a draft for ANY reason should be tossed out on their fucking asses.

Proposed it because he knew it wouldn't pass? Rangal should resign.

[K-W]

10. That is silly. It was a publicity tool, not a real draft proposal.

There was absolutely 0 chance of it passing and everyone involved knew that.

[Bread and Circus]

2. If Kerry was smart, he would be talking more about this...

A draft such as this is the end result of Bush's distastrous policies. The fact that they are hiding it from us is an example of the bait and switch methodology this Administration operates on. My mom's a Bush voter but if she thought her son could be drafted, she'd quickly become a Kerry voter. I'd almost like to be drafted just so I could throw it in her face and prove to her how wrong she's been all this time.

However, as much as I like him, Rangel should shut the fuck up about a draft. He's only giving the RW a talking point when they finally re-instate it. Hell, they will probably credit him with the idea and take the credit for keeping females out of harm's way.

[Dems Will Win]

18. kick

[strategery blunder]

3. I don't confuse them, but the difference is too subtle for freeps

They physically won't let me take the time to explain it to them.:evilfrown:

And another thing that annoys me...why do DUers keep extending the courtesy of referring to the Selective Service as the SSS? It's time to call it what it has become--Amerikkka's modern-day Schutzstaffel. We really should be calling it the SS.

[Dems Will Win]

4. But then Seniors will think they could be DRAFTED!

SS is Social Security, what can you do?

[strategery blunder]

7. Didn't think about that

but I'm sick of giving bu$h* the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the word wars.

[crickets]

9. "We really should be calling it the SS."

The same thought has occurred to me. *looks shifty* Am I allowed to say that?

edit: title quotes

[strategery blunder]

11. I nearly always call it the SS

I am willing to pay the price at Gitmo if that's what it takes...

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Don't forget that Rangel's bill can always be amended and tweaked to

what the repukes want and then they'll pass it.

Rangel didn't intend for his bill to re-activate the draft but in the hands of the republican majority in both houses, he may have loaded the gun that they will fire.

[Dems Will Win]

6. You're not getting it, I'm afraid.

The Rangel Bill is not needed to have a draft.

The law already exists for a combat draft men 18-25

The Rangel bill, just a protest bill, would draft men and women for combat 18-34 and will NEVER pass the House.

So stop saying that.

[Dems Will Win]

8. Draft Flyer

Printable pdf: http: http://somnamblst.tripod.com/draftalert.pdf

In May, the Seattle Post Intelligencer published an article about a document they received through the Freedom of Information Act. It was revealed that the SSS is currently “designing procedures” for the implementation of a “Skills Draft” after holding a top-level meeting on it with Deputy Undersecretaries at the Defense Department. This draft would change the very mission of the Selective Service and require “virtually every young American”, male and female ages 18-34, to register for the Skills Draft and list all the occupations they are proficient in to fill labor shortages throughout nearly the entire government.

Here, for the first time, is the FOI document itself:

http://blatanttruth.org/selective_service091304.pdf

This document is real, having been acknowledged by the DoD and the SSS when they said no action is being taken on it at the present time, as reported:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/171522_draft01.html

Although Congress would have to approve new legislation to create a Skills Draft or reinstate the combat draft, Family Circle reported in its July 13 issue that Karl Rove has polled GOP members of Congress in September 2002 to see if they would support the President if he requests reinstatement. The Republicans said they would vote for the draft.

In addition, the SSS itself has said that it is “designing procedures” (Seattle PI, May 1, 2004) to implement the skills draft, meaning designing the compliance cards and the data fields needed to keep track of “virtually every young American” and their skills. Acting Director of the SSS Brodsky has also said the Skills Draft is the “top priority” of the Selective Service for 2004. The Issue Paper options include:

- Allow a non-combat draft for shortages in critical skills, without calling a combat draft.

- Fill labor shortages of all kinds throughout not only DoD but the Dept. of Homeland Security and other agencies, especially high-paying professionals like computer networking specialist or linguist.

- Create a single-point, all-inclusive database, in which every young person would be forced to send in a “self-declaration” of all of their critical skills, chosen from a long list of occupations like the Armed Forces Specialty Code. The usual penalties of imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine would apply to all non-registrants.

In the secret planning meeting document, the next steps strongly recommended by SSS Acting Director Brodsky were:

1. “Promptly” redefine the SSS Mission to draft men and women up to age 34 for skills, and deliver them within 90 days or sooner to the Department of Defense. Program a massive database to be ready to enter millions of names of those registering their critical skills.

2. Expand mission to deliver personnel in skills draft to the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, including FEMA, NSC, Border Patrol, INS, Customs, Corporation for National Service, Public Health Service and other agencies.

3. Form interagency task force to provide Administration with recommendation on this skills draft for the entire government.

4. Obtain White House Statement of Administration Policy on the future of the SSS.

5. Be prepared to market the skills draft, raising the non-combat age to 34 and the drafting of women to the Armed Services and Appropriations Committee.

In contrast to this planning and preparation to create a targeted draft, Kerry plans to spend an additional $7 billion to strengthen the Volunteer Army in what is essentially a “No-Draft Plan”. Moreover, Kerry is strongly opposed to the neo-con plan revealed in Wes Clark’s book Winning Modern Wars, in which Clark was told by a senior Pentagon official that invasions of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan and Somalia were planned and still to come over the next three years.

DON'T FORGET TO USE THE .PDF NOT THE .GIF FILE.

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

KERRY '04 = PNAC OUT THE DOOR!

For more Flyers: http://somnamblst.tripod.com/

[Dems Will Win]

12. kick

[Comadreja]

17. NeoCons are denying it

In the seattle PI Rummy strongly denies any plans for a draft. I don't believe him, but college kids might feel as if this flyer is calamity howling and sensationalistic for that reason. I haven't decided whether to use it or not.

[rucky]

13. Bush Twins would go to Iraq

go Charlie!

[qanda]

14. Kick

:kick:

[Dems Will Win]

15. kick

[qanda]

16. One more kick because

For some reason I'm hearing a lot about Dems trying to start a draft.

:kick: for education

[Dems Will Win]

19. KICK

[smb]

20. John, John, John, Aren't You Gonna Put Up ANY Fight?

If Kerry had enough sense to exploit the issue, he's publicly commit himself to abolishing registration on his first day in office. That would force Dubya to actually do so or else reduce his minions' denials to so much empty noise.