Hang up this DRAFT FLYER everywhere you can, especially colleges!!

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Go to http://somnamblst.tripod.com/

Thanks Rosebud57! Follow Rosebud's instructions on the site to print the .tif file out (the correct file). The .gif is JUST A SAMPLE.

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 .TIF NOT THE .GIF FILE.

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

KERRY '04 = PNAC OUT THE DOOR!

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[BiggJawn]

2. I'm a "Couch Warmer", and a "Resource Squanderer"...

...and a "Authority Questioner", and a "Female Orgasm Facilitator"....

I'm also too old, but I can TEACH you young pups!
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[Deadrabbit]

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[xxqqqzme]

4. thanx and a

Kick.

I printed both draft alert and flop flipper. Going 2 B @ the swap meet this Saturday. These will B seen.

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5. Great!

[donkeyotay]

6. Sounds like involuntary servitude

"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."

Anything else, Master?

[Dems Will Win]

11. Yes! You will be forced to work at a military wage

for the local and state agencies Bush wants you to as well.

Please pay attention here.

[Christof]

7. Oh I will!

I will!

Thanks!

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[wuushew]

8. How the hell does the government tell how skilled someone is?

In order for this to work all the various public and private colleges, universities and technical schools would have to belong to and meet some universal military industrial complex accreditation. Also these schools would have to provide easy to understand and timely transcripts to the military year after year after year.

If such a system exists when did it start, who runs it and how many government employees are engaged in this endeavor?


If the government asked you if you have any skills say no. Absent forced standardized tests, no one besides yourself is qualified to judge whether a person is proficient in a given skill or not.

[Dems Will Win]

9. You register at the local Post Office within 30 days of Bush ordering

you to do so.

All under the age of 35, male or female, must fill out the SSS Compliance card which will list several hundred occupations.

It's easy! A self-declaration like your IRS form. Just check off ALL the skills you have, including everything from truck driver to engineer, and even COMPUTER USER. Put in your work phone, daytime phone, cell phone, street address and birthdate (it's the birthday they'll assign a lottery number to). If you're a truck driver and they call for 3000 truck drivers and your birthday is a low enough lottery number, CONGRATULATIONS!

You've just won an all-expenses paid vacation to the Middle East or maybe even Central Asia where you can show the government your skills after ONLY 90 DAYS! It's QUICK AND EASY!

Oh by the way, if YOU DON'T REGISTER, it will only be a $250,000 FINE AND PERHAPS IMPRISONMENT, so don't worry about it.

And don't forget they already know who you are at the IRS and Social Security and Bush is already breaking down the walls between agencies and the DoD can now get help from the IRS IN LOCATING YOU!

So don't tell anybody about all this because there's nothing to see here.

Move along now.

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[wuushew]

15. That doesn't solve the problem of self-identification

Since the government has no way to validate the type or quality of skills I may or may not possess they can't bust me for anything other than failure to register.

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24. Ever hear of the IRS?

PDF file of above poster for printing: http://somnamblst.tripod.com/draftalert.pdf

[smirkymonkey]

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Hopefully this will motivate the youth vote in our favor.

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[Joanne98]

17. Keep this kicked pleased...........

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[GliderGuider]

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If they don't sign up to be cannon fodder, we'll make 'em cannon fodder.


You Democracts have to win, you just HAVE to win in November.

[EthanAllenVt]

19. Where is the original Whitehouse call for a draft poster?

That is the one we need to hang up. Is there a link to the official call for a draft?

[blondeatlast]

21. We don't typically use RW spin sites at DU.

That's about the biggest RW spin there is.

But then, you are such a fine, upstanding liberal, you already knew that!

[WillyT]

20. THANK YOU !!!

Will be posting those!

:yourock:

[Joanne98]

22. I sent it to everybody i know.

Good work Dems will win...

[Joanne98]

23. Get back up there.........KICK

[tabasco]

25. 100,000 trainees in 30 days.

That is the on order mission of the Selective Service. 100k warm bodies in basic training in a month. Of course, that's just the first iteration. After 6 months, 600,000 new soldiers for Bush's insane conquests.

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[donkeyotay]

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Yes college students, if you didn't think being up to your eyeballs in debt and graduating into an anemic job market was enough, check this out! This must be the land of the free that FUX has been talking about.

[WLKjr]

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put them up on my student info board, the one about the draft.

[Tsiyu]

31. I love her posters

but it'd be great if she did some alternative ones that didn't use so much ink. Small complaint, it's just that we could print more with less.
This will be going up at my kids' college and anywhere else we can tape one.

[Andromeda]

32. Yes, yes, yes!

This is so important that every student, every man or woman between the ages of 18-35 needs to be aware that their way of life will be dramatically altered if the Bushies have their way.

We are losing this war but the Bush administration will institute the draft to send more Americans to Iraq to die.

We want our young people, our students, our FUTURE to stay right here in the good old U.S.

The thought of Americans dying every single day in a third-world country with a dubious future and with every possibility that it will continue for many years to come, makes me sick to my stomach!

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