I actually like and agree quite mostly with what this newletter talks about.

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

What are your thoughts on it?

LP.org

Law forcing schools to share student data with Selective Service should be scrapped, Libertarians say

WASHINGTON, DC -- A new law that requires public schools to turn over student information to military recruiters should be scrapped, Libertarians say, because educators shouldn't have to cooperate in sending their students off to get killed in senseless foreign wars.

"Apparently the government believes the three R's should stand for reading, writing – and recruiting," said George Getz, Libertarian Party communications director. "Schools are supposed to be supplying an education to their students, not supplying their students to the armed forces."

A little-noticed amendment to the elementary and secondary education funding bill signed earlier this year by President Bush requires public high schools to turn over students' names, addresses, and telephone numbers to military recruiters. The measure, which has already sparked opposition in New York and other cities, is designed to help the Selective Service track down 18-year-old males who have neglected to register for the draft as required by federal law.

But Libertarians say the government has no business deputizing
school administrators to act as agents for the Selective Service.

"The fact that some students fail to comply with a federal regulation shouldn't obligate schools to violate the privacy of all students," Getz said. "The Selective Service should have no more right to demand student records without a warrant than does the IRS, the DEA, or any other government agency.

"Besides, teachers' first obligation should be to educate and protect their students, not make it easier for the government to launch another Vietnam-style draft."

The law was prompted by complaints by the Selective Service that compliance with draft registration has been falling, and has plunged to 49 percent in some urban areas like New York, Getz noted.

"Americans should think about why so many youths are refusing to register," he said. "Maybe they've learned that the draft has been used as a tool to wage senseless wars that the public rightly opposed, such as Vietnam and Korea. Maybe inner-city students are especially aware that while governments launch wars, minorities always seem to end up leading the charge into battle.

"And how can students fail to notice that presidents have a habit of sending Americans to fight in places totally unrelated to U.S. national security, like Bosnia, Haiti, Panama, Somalia, Lebanon, and Iraq?

"No wonder so many students are reluctant to register: They don't want to die defending someone else's country."

History shows that a draft has never been needed to defend the USA, Libertarians note.

"Anytime this nation was actually attacked, as it was at Pearl
Harbor and on September 11, Americans rushed to volunteer for military service," Getz said. "It's only when U.S. national security is not at stake that politicians turn to coercion and conscription.

"If the government wants to ensure that Americans will always be eager to defend their country, it doesn't have to turn teachers into informants for the Selective Service. All it has to do is adopt a truly defensive foreign policy of neutrality and non-intervention."

 

[juicylips]

I didn't read it.

I just stopped in to say hello and kiss you.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

I didn't read it.

I just stopped in to say hello and kiss you.

Thank you hun

 

[Guest]

I read it.

I don't want to kiss you.

 

[tswyk]

I read it AND I'm sending you a kiss!

 

[sch00lteacher]

Where you been Todd?


I disagree. I think there should be a two year mandatory enlistment in the military service of your choice. Or a four year enlistment with the Peace Corp.

 

[seXieleXie]

I disagree. I think there should be a two year mandatory enlistment in the military service of your choice. Or a four year enlistment with the Peace Corp.

because the peace corp is so much easier than, say, the national guard?

 

[sch00lteacher]

I don't consider the Guard or Reserves to be an actual branch of the military. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard.

A lot of countries do this.

Basic training alone would wake a lot of, what are we calling you these days, Gen Xers? Wake them up anyhow. Teach them how to take care of themselves, responsibility, that sort of thing.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Where you been Todd?


I disagree. I think there should be a two year mandatory enlistment in the military service of your choice. Or a four year enlistment with the Peace Corp.

been on your blurty a few times, but no body is answering replies

I have been light on this lit cycle

 

[SilvaTungDevil]

I disagree. I think there should be a two year mandatory enlistment in the military service of your choice...... I don't consider the Guard or Reserves to be an actual branch of the military. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard......Basic training alone would wake a lot of, what are we calling you these days, Gen Xers? Wake them up anyhow. Teach them how to take care of themselves, responsibility, that sort of thing.

Dad.....is that you.....?

 

[Lancecastor]

this newletter

What are your thoughts on it?

There's a new letter?

Did u retire?

Silly cnt.

 

[Purple Haze]

I don't consider the Guard or Reserves to be an actual branch of the military. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard.

I was with you until you said this.

Who the fuck was in Desert Storm?

The National Guard AND the Reserves.

Just saying hello...

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Re: this newletter

There's a new letter?

Did u retire?

Silly cnt.

huh???

 

[SilvaTungDevil]

Re: this newletter

There's a new letter?

Did u retire?

Silly cnt.

hehe

 

[Azwed]

Will read it later just saying hi to todd and saving thread.

I can now scratch off one MIA lit person from my list.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Will read it later just saying hi to todd and saving thread.

I can now scratch off one MIA lit person from my list.

hi feel free to PM me or email me, you know how.

thanks to notice me missing, I will be sparce while the dung keeps on getting flung by a dung with over 200 posts a day

 

[sch00lteacher]

I was with you until you said this.

Who the fuck was in Desert Storm?

Now now, you know better than that, you know what I meant. I mean full time service for two years.

I respect what the Guard and Reserve do, of course I do. But I can not consider them to be a BRANCH of the military, because they are not. No disrespect intended.

If I really wanted to go off the wall I'd require the kids to join the Guard or Reserve after they served their two years. And be like Switzerland, require them to keep and practice with an assault rifle at home.

 

[Purple Haze]

And be like Switzerland, require them to keep and practice with an assault rifle at home.

Beautiful...