[Mb-civic] The return of the draft

[Cheeseburger]

Re:  The return of the draft


Al Baraka wrote:

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That would be great, Cheese, but how do we get there from the bloody mess we
are in now? What pragmatic steps can be taken? Just about all the
contributors to MBC knew that Bush, Blair et al were lying to us from the
start (ie before the Iraq war and indeed about just about everything else
ever since) and we foresaw pretty clearly the consequences of their
wickedness and the situation we are now in and a fat lot of good it did us
and the millions of people around the world who thought the same way. Bush
was reelected on 2 nov 2004 and Blair looks certain to be reelected in the
UK in May 2005. We all believe we can see the problem and you for one write
very movingly about it - so how are we going start solving it? It is pretty
complicated - this particular onion has many many skins.
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Ok, I'll step down for a moment from my relatively useless inflammatory
rhetoric that millions of people are spouting just like me around the
planet, and go for the gusto and punch up a Real Solution.

Hmmm...  Ok, you got me on that one, there ain't a solution.

LOL........

In America, at least, we are living under a relatively hunkered down
Military Industrial Dictatorship that could care less if we want a Draft
brought back or not, as they need foot soldiers to secure various arenas in
the new global conquest game.

So we're basically probably going to have a Draft, and already have a Back
Door Draft as they refer to it, with even current military personnel
currently suing our government for breach of contract as they just keep
extending their enlistment unlawfully.

Add to that, that we have a party calling themselves "Republicans" who have
basically been hoping to turn back the clock to the early 1900's where
robber barons ruled the world unchallenged, and such things as rights,
votes, welfare of people children etc were basically nonexistent.

And it all tied together in one big neat bundle means they can just about do
anything they want.

The only *real* solution to things such as not desiring a New Draft and how
to avoid it, is to get about 10 million people and march on Washington D.C.
in protest.

However, given that we cannot *organize* a 10 million person protest march
on D.C. currently, that offers little hope until the Draft legislation
actually hits the table firmly in Congress, and then maybe at *that* late
date, people will start *really* organizing "in protest".

Americans always wait until *after* the fact about so many things to squeak
up, and, just like now, after the fact, it is usually too late.

But, hey, I could keep typing this crap until the sun goes down, and we
would be no closer to "A Real Solution" than at the time I began typing it.

But I will typing anyway.  Useless or not.

Let's again look at the Facts, though, just to clear my mind.

We're under a military industrial dictatorship.

We invaded Afghanistan, which supplies 90 percent of all heroin to Europe
and England, to put people in power who give a rat's *ss about Afghanis,
while regular Afghanis are dying in hovels in the slums there after being
invited back by "the new guys".

Score one major great victory for America right there.  If the poppies that
make heroin weren't there, and we weren't going to get a piece of that drug
money pie under the table in the process, we probably wouldn't have bothered
going after something called the Taliban.

We invaded Iraq, spent about a half a trillion dollars almost between the 2,
basically accomplished nothing except to piss off a whole lot of people and
make them even more adamant in their "Anti-American" stances, and are now
spreading ourselves militarily thin and need more personnel to, among other
things, man those neat 14 permanent military bases we have already started
construction on in Iraq, as we send drones into Iran as scouts, preparing
for an invasion of that country with the aid of Israel, or visa versa.

We're going to need *lots* more military personnel for that one also.

Ok, so now that we've established that A New Draft will *definitely* arrive
in one form or another, as we are currently under a Government that controls
the House, the Senate, the White House, most of The Supreme Court, the
Department of Justice, Etc, and is currently overseas invaded whomever in
The Middle East that has oil underground who is stupid enough to let us
undermine what little credibility they have in the international community,
there's probably not much anyone can really do to avoid a Draft in the
coming future.

Bush will be in office until when, 2009...?   Geez, that *certainly* seems
like a long time, doesn't it.

By then we will be so deeply embroiled in various wars in The Middle East,
that whomever inherits it won't be able to *not* continue a Draft without
simply abandoning our military arenas on all fronts and simply pull our kids
back home.

We are so broke *already*, that kids of The Poor are already scrambling just
to get *in* to the military, so they can have an income other than
McDonalds.

The Solution...?  I don't really know.  A revolution..?  They would just
call out the storm troopers and they would shoot us all, so there will be no
Boston Tea Parties anytime soon coming down the alleys of Freedom.

A 10 million person march..?  That sounds reasonable.  All one has to do is
organize it and implement it.  However, since Americans do not *currently*
see a DRASTIC need to get such a thing together and do it, it remains one of
the farthest things from their minds.

Amazing that someone must now re-teach America how to relive the 60's and
the political activism that was born during and from that pooh poohed era of
long hair, pot, and hippie music.

They have their heads in televisions, video games, fast cars, and
refrigerators.

They forgot that they actually have to fight to keep their Freedoms alive
here in their own country.

Entrusted their own well being to Capitalist Communists for the most part,
and are now reaping the results of their own complacency, and their children
are paying for it, currently and in the future, by coming back in body bags.

Solution...?  Probably isn't one.  Most likely 50 years from now there won't
even be an Internet as we know it now, the Government will have most likely
taken that over by then as well.

The Federalist Society.  Who belongs to that, I forgot.  Scalia, Ashcroft,
etc etc etc etc etc.

They believe the clock should be turned back to a time where men were men,
robber barons ruled the world, women were to cook and shut up, and it was
allright for children to work in the coal mines, especially when the roofs
of the tunnels were too small for adults.

And they are now in the position to actually make it all happen in reality.

A new Draft appears to be merely another sore popping to the surface of a
humongous deadly disease that has eaten what was left of Democracy, Freedom,
Rights, etc in America.

If one can NOT wrest the power from the hands of these current unscrupulous,
yes, let's call them what they really are, "REPUBLICANS", then getting A New
Draft cancelled is impossible.

So, the *real* question is not how to stop a new Draft, but how to remove
the actual power from these Fascists who basically now run the entire
Federal Government.

The draft thing will naturally follow the solution of that previous
question.

How to remove them from Power.

Our forefathers would have had a *real* revolution, as they realized that
was the *only* way to remove such tyrants, as exampled as their actions
toward England in their original revolution.

Today, again, however, they will just gun us down like dogs if we get "too
out of hand", so "revolution" seems just like some nice song on some Beatles
album I heard long ago.

Politically remove their Power...?  While they **virtually** control the
entire Federal Government, that basically remains a complete impossibility.

So, then.....    What the f*ck options are we really left with.

Well....   Hmmm....   Lemme see....

What did THEY use to build the bedrock of their Power on, other than
compliant treason from various entities in America, including various
corporations, judges, medias, etc.

Ah, yes, that's right.      Propaganda.

They used simple Propaganda to eliminate some little thing called The Truth.

And, the Media, it has become apparent, is in it with them.

Ahhh...  Ok, then that leaves us with *what* weapon as a last resort...?

Propaganda.

Ok, but for sanity's sake, we'll say that for fighting fire with fire,
Propaganda with Propaganda, whereas they used Lies, Half-Truths, and
Delusional Bullsh*t for their Propaganda, we will use The Truth.

Ok, so here we have our weapon, if this be the only weapon left available to
us, Propaganda, or, The Truth.

Allright, so spreading that takes MONEY.

And that, other than an actual revolution, since political removal of their
Power appears impossible at this late date, and a 10 million person march on
D.C. would be like trying to get an enemated elephant off the toilet,
appears to be the closest thing that I can come up with an actual Solution
from my tiny uneducated brain.

Since most "Administrations'" "criminal activities" are usually, in America,
only prosecuted LONG after the Administration leaves office, trying to use
legal means to unseat them from Power also appears useless, at least in an
immediate light.

50 years from now, long after I'm gone, someone might read this and say
"What is THAT crap?  Throw that garbage on the fire and hand me another clip
for the rifle..."

And *that* is where we're heading, as you and so many others now realize.

So, let's see, we've gone over possible Solutions, let's just relist them
again, for removing THE REPUBLICAN FASCIST PARTY from the Power it currently
holds in America and its stranglehold control over the ENTIRE Federal
Government at this time.

1.  Political.  Won't work.  We don't have the numbers except for a
filibuster now and then.

2.  Legal.  Apparently all the lawyers in America are currently on
thorazine, and won't sue Administrations, normally, until long after they
are out of office.  Won't work either.

3.  Revolution.  No can do.  They will shoot us down like dogs.

4.  10 million person march on D.C.  Might work.  Can't get Americans to get
off their butts, however, to do it until long after the *necessity* for
doing it has arrived and gone.

5.  Counter-Propaganda campaign.  Might work if one has the umpteen millions
(billions) of dollars made available to them that it would take to engage
the current Republican Propaganda now firmly in place, with some obscure
thing called The Truth.  Would have to circumvent the Media who is also
complicit in the current Treason and Betrayal of America somehow.  Buying
them off remains an option.  As Hitler or someone said, if you repeat the
same thing over and over and over to a people, convince them that there are
Crisises all around them, and then point at any ignoramus enemy, they will
throw all their eggs in with you, which is basically how the Republicans
have managed their Propaganda campaign very nice and tight so far.  Might
work.  Need the cash and organization and brains to pull it off though.


About 25 percent of votes elected Bush in 2001 came from right wing
Christian nuts who have been progandasized by The Republicans as to
everything from Gays, to Food Stamps, to Welfare, to Abortion, to Liberals,
to Democrats, to Clinton Getting Head In The Oval Office, to You Name It.
In 2004, the same thing happened, except it was about 50 percent of the
votes that came from those people, and this time their actual priests
preached them a sermon based basically on The Political Platform Of The
Republican Party, on the Sunday before the Tuesday of the Presidential
Election.

Even if an anti-Propaganda campaign (The Truth) is found to be an acceptable
and viable and financeable weapon of choice, *those* particular people will
probably not respond whatsoever, as they long ago gave up their common sense
for anything spoken by anyone who used the name of Jesus along with it.

That's about 25 million sure votes the Republicans will, most likely, always
be able to count on, as they are easily duped into any kind of betrayal of
Democracy, again, as long as the word "Jesus" is used to frame it with.


Other than that, I don't really see any other "solution" hanging around,
other than "Reaching The People With The Truth", which, again, will take
LOTS of money, organization, and brain power.  That someone has not already
done it astounds me.

Remove their Power, the Wars, and, consequently, any need for A New Draft
will easily follow.

Convincing "The Military" to give up some of their budgets, powers, and
secrecy is an entirely different matter, lol, especially since they have
just spent so much money on so many new toys that can broil your kidneys,
boil the water under your skin, or put actual thoughts into your cranium.

All put together, The Republicans, with The Military, with The Corporations,
with The Media, it looks like one big pile of sh*t, which, again, yes,
you're right, so many can now plainly see.

A "Solution"...?  Well, if you can't get "The Truth Campaign" off the
ground, there is always "Revolution" waiting in the wings just waiting for
some really stupid Americans to dust it off.

While seemingly extremely unpalatable now, 50 years from now, that will be
the last option left available to anyone.

Or we can just change our name to Palestine and keep pretending.





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