THE Flyer that will win the youth voter, old voter, rich voter, poor...

[Dems Will Win]

HANG THIS FLYER EVERYWHERE
Printable PDF: http://somnamblst.tripod.com/draftalert.pdf

THIS IS A SPECIAL DRAFT ALERT

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!

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[sybylla]

1. Thanks for posting this.

I'm part of a Dem group near a college town. The flyers may be very appropriate there.

[cheezus]

2. I'll print a bunch of these up and leave them around campus

thanks!

[Dems Will Win]

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[ClassWarrior]

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[Sugarbleus]

6. FANTASTIC!! Just what I was looking for.

I'm off to turn on my printer. :bounce:

EXCELLENT WORK AND CONTRIBUTION!! Thanks DWW

[Dems Will Win]

7. Thank Rosebud57 for graphics and creativity too!

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[Sugarbleus]

8. Thank you... I will do just that when I find her/him...

Just printed out the flyer. Then printed out the info. Next stop, Kinkos......... Superb activism technique, this... WOW

[UrbScotty]

9. Save Generations X and Y!

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[roseBudd]

10. Defense vs. Offense flyer also

http://somnamblst.tripod.com to download high res TIF or PDF files for printing

[LiberalEsto]

11. So THIS is their Jobs plan!

The B*sh Employment Plan

Step one: Massive layoffs

Step two: Outsourcing jobs overseas

Step three: Start wars everywhere

Step four: Draft the unemployed

[Dems Will Win]

12. YOU GOT IT!

[Austin26]

13. How insane can our Fearful Leader get:??

Does this mean that the unemployed, 22-year old alcoholic First Twins could be drafted??...I'd pay to see that...

[Dems Will Win]

14. Here's the combat DRAFT they are also cooking up:

Taken singly, each of the clues indicating the return and expansion of the draft might seem insignificant but when you add them all up with what the selective Service is doing to gear up the combat draft, a clear pattern emerges, leading to the inescapable conclusion that a Bush re-election will see not only a Skills Draft, but a return of the Combat Draft as well.

What is the proof? The government’s own document, the SSS Performance Plan for Fiscal Year 2004:

http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html

The Selective Service System, or the SSS, has for decades operated at a low level of readiness. Readiness Exercises are conducted on a multi-year cycle but historically these have been little more than getting draft board volunteers together and going over the procedures of what would happen under reinstatement and training new members every summer. And the draft boards themselves have become 80% vacant over the decades.

In the current 5-year cycle of exercises, however, the SSS is clearly ramping up the draft machinery to an unprecedented level.

“Strategic Objective 1.2: Ensure a mobilization infrastructure of 56 State Headquarters,
442 Area Offices and 1,980 Local Boards are operational within 75 days of an authorized
return to conscription.”

Tie that to this objective:

“An annual report providing the results of the implementation of these performance
measures will be submitted by March 31, 2005.”

75 days from March 31, 2005 is about June 15, 2005. According to the 2004 plan, the draft boards will be “operational” then, meaning that they will be set up in 1,980 local offices around the country. If Bush asks for reinstatement on April 1, Congress could pass it that night and the first batch of over one million 20 year-olds would face the national lottery as soon as that date, June 15, 2005.

Here is how the $28 million is being spent according to the official document. Although the Senate rejected the funding request to bump up the SSS budget to $28 million, the SSS says in one paragraph of the Performance Plan that budgets will be “adjusted” to cover the additional cost for 2004:

“Strategic Goal 1: Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the Manpower
Delivery Systems (Projected allocation for FY 2004 – $7,942,000)

Strategic Goal 2: Improve overall Registration Compliance and Service to the Public (Projected allocation FY 2004 – $8,769,000)

Strategic Goal 3: Enhance external and internal customer service
(Projected allocation for FY 2004 – $10,624,000)

Strategic Goal 4: Enhance the system which guarantees that each conscientious objector is properly classified, placed, and monitored. (Projected allocation for FY 2004 – $955,000)”

In analyzing each of the 2004 goals in detail it is obvious that there are hidden “activation bombshells” in this so-called “Performance Plan”. Goal number 1 in particular brings the combat induction process up to 95% operational readiness, going so far as to actually hold a mock lottery drawing this year and to issue sample orders to report for the famous medical exam. The document does not reveal the day in 2004 the mock lottery is to be held.

In addition, the Medical Draft, or Health Care Personnel Delivery System (HCPDS in the document), is for the first time brought up to full readiness by next year. This draft would take men and women up to age 44 if they are doctors, nurses or one of 60-some medical specialties. No medical deferments allowed. Previous readiness exercises merely went over what would happen with HCPDS and updated the guide. The 2004 plan actually develops a readiness exercise for the Medical Draft that would be conducted next year. Plus HCPDS must be ready to conscript by June, being part of the system.

Goal number four is particularly ominous.

“Strategic Objective 4.1: Ensure a mobilization infrastructure of 48 Alternative Service Offices and 48 Civilian Review Boards are operational within 96 days after notification of a return to induction.”

“Strategic Objective 4.2: Develop a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the Alternative Service Employer Network to specifically identify organizations and associations who can, by law, participate in the Alternative Service Program. This network will provide jobs for ASWs at the local level. Prior to activation, SSS will develop a draft MOU for use when obtaining agreements with qualified employers at the local and national level.”

For 31 years, the Conscientious Objector system, called the Alternative Service, has lain dormant. The 2004 plan also calls for this to be brought up to speed and to be ready to decide cases and place COs in the Alternative Service by July 6, 2005 (96 days after March 31, 2005). The SSS is even going so far as to draw up the SOPs, the Standard Operating Procedures which identify local employers eligible to receive cheap AS workers and to also draw up the actual MOU, the Memorandum of Understanding the employer must sign to get their CO workers and allow their mandatory attendance to be monitored. This is the last obstacle to be hurdled before the draft could actually be ready for quick activation under the law.

In sharp contrast to all this preparation for a Spring 2005 draft by Bush, Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry has proposed a military plan that rejects any draft. By adding 20,000 active duty combat soldiers and 20,000 active “reconstruction specialists”. At a Wisconsin high school, Kerry pledged in June, 2004, that the draft would be “absolutely unnecessary”. When asked in April by 130 college editors in a conference call as to whether he would support a draft, John Kerry said unequivocally: “No. No draft” and he has criticized the use of the Guard and Reserve and now the Individual Ready Reserve as a “back-door 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, in which Clark was told by a senior Pentagon official that invasions of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan and Somalia were still to come over the next three years.

[oasis]

23. Wake up America.

[wildeyed]

15. This is interesting.

I have a volunteer who is interested in working college campuses. I might set her up with a stack of these.

Question, would it be appropriate to add a 'register to vote' link to the website and a 'college voter's bill of rights'? Students might pick up the flyer, got to the site and then be confused as how to proceed form there.

[Dems Will Win]

16. Blatanttruth can put up those links on the draft page

Go to blatanttruth.org and e-mail them the links. They'll be up tomorrow!

[wildeyed]

20. Did it.

Thanks.

[roseBudd]

17. you should have voter forms at hand for instant registration

and you should take them to the BOE. I don't even trust the post office. Repugs work there too.

[roseBudd]

18. new Draft Alert flyer uploaded

I hung some today and they printed and photocopied too dark and were hard to read from a distance. Go to http://somnamblst.tripod.com to download the new high resolution TIF or PDF file to print.

[wildeyed]

19. That is what is preferable, but if people are picking up the

flyers and then hitting the site independently, it might be good to have a 'register' link. Also, people might want to email the site to their friends.

[oasis]

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[DesEtoiles]

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[Dems Will Win]

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[blue neen]

25. Just called my friend so she could give the info for printing the flyer

to her daughter. She attends the University of Pittsburgh. They are on it.

Thanks!

[blue neen]

26. Sending to all the college students and 18-34 year olds that I know.

[drdigi420]

27. Hell Yeah!

[roseBudd]

28. Make sure you dowload the high res files and not the GIF examples

http://somnamblst.tripod.com

With computers, printers and photocopiers WE are the new old media (print) newspapers be damned!

[roseBudd]

29. New easier to read from distance draft alert flyer

[blue neen]

31. Thanks rosebud57. Sent out the update to everyone.

[Dem Agog]

30. I'm pasting it on my website...

As my 404 error - my website used to be used and linked to quite a bit. Now all those pages are outdated and gone. Instead of a generic 404 error, my hits will all register to this page:

New 404 Error "Flyer"

Thanks!

[Dems Will Win]

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[roseBudd]

33. Brilliant! Now that is guerilla marketing

We need more out of the box ideas like this.

This could be effective spam. people will either want to read the flyers or not

[Dems Will Win]

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[MisterGamut]

35. It's 4 in the morning

I just got back from hanging these all over town. I wanted it to be the first thing people saw on Monday morning. On phone booths, boarded up businesses, phone polls, community bulletin boards, under people's yard sale signs, at a local observation deck, everywhere. I especially hung them around the local high school. The kids deserve to know the fate that awaits them if Bush is reelected.

Thanks so much for the poingnant graphics.

[oasis]

39. Great work. You will be rewarded by having a peaceful planet to live on.

[Ganja Ninja]

36. Skills Draft?

Doubtful if any of the wealthy elite will possess the skills required. Certainly the Bush offspring will be low on the priority list. Young Republican's will have no place in this draft since they can best help in the war effort by campaigning for the GOP right here in the USA.

The skills most desired will be poor or middle class "skills". People who can serve as cannon fodder will be in great demand.

[Bongo Prophet]

37. Excellent! I have sent to some friends...

Important support info on the skills draft. Not only Army, but border patrol, HomelandSec, etc.etc.
WTF do they have planned? Keep people out or IN?
Our worst fears may be realized if we don't oust these f^*%%s out in NOV.
:grr:

How to get tinypic to work?
DL my riotsquad painting...
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