Conscription

[DMac]

Simple poll.

Should the big one break out and conscription is reinstated, let's say ages 18-45 like it was at the start of WW2.

You get a draft notice. What next?

[DMac]

I think I would try to flee the US.

[dys]

Death first.

dys

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

I will show up to the induction center, that is required by law. I might refuse to take two steps forward, raise my right hand, and recite the oath, since that is not required by law.

Legally, you have to show up to the induction chamber if you receive a draft letter. You don't have to recite the oath which makes you a member of the armed forces.


I take this stance because I do not believe our wars are honest. They are all predicated on fabricated intelligence and are basically resource wars, you all know that. The Gulf of Tonkin never happened, the US govt recently admitted. All of Vietnam was avoidable.


That being said, if another country invaded the Californian coastline, you couldn't stop me from defending my homeland. I am the rifle behind every blade of grass.

It really depends on what the threat is.




Do I have any plans in fighting in the next world war, the famous WW3?

Not likely, TPTB don't hold your breath.

[vacuum]

I will show up to the induction center, that is required by law. I might refuse to take two steps forward, raise my right hand, and recite the oath, since that is not required by law.

Legally, you have to show up to the induction chamber if you receive a draft letter. You don't have to recite the oath which makes you a member of the armed forces.
Good strategy, has anyone done this with success? I don't see how they could court-marshal you because you aren't part of the army. What's happened to those who do this?

[palani]

You get a draft notice. What next?

Consider the correlary as well. Not what comes next but what came before. In other words, what made you eligible for selective service to begin with.

Had you not accepted the FREE benefit of home delivery of mail then registering for the draft would not be a requirement. Prior to free home delivery of mail all mail was general delivery and you called for it at the post office. This all changed in 1862 when bodies were needed as targets for canon to be aimed at.

Thank Abraham Lincoln for this benefit.

[chad]

my grandfather was conscripted during ww2. you either did it or got shot is what he told me.

[osoab]

They won't take me unless i sit in an office. ;D

[horseshoe3]

What next?

Politely ignore it and go about my business.

[dys]

my grandfather was conscripted during ww2. you either did it or got shot is what he told me.

Ever get the feeling that the good ole' days never happened? Stories like these make me feel that things have always been this way.

dys

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

Do I get a free college education if I say yes?

[chad]

Ever get the feeling that the good ole' days never happened? Stories like these make me feel that things have always been this way.

dys

yep. having one set of grandparents & great uncle that came from germany and one set that grew up in the great depression (and had their parents abandon them at an orphanage) makes me tend to think things have not always not been grand.

[horseshoe3]

But at least they had the illusion of being free. That illusion has been shattered for all of us here and is becoming less believable for the public at large. Ignorance really is bliss.

I have a coworker who is not at all bothered by the TSA rules. His response, "I don't fly anyway, so why should I worry about infringement of a right I would never even use?" I think that is how the people of previous generations felt. As long as the government wasn't in their face, they believed they had rights. Now, it's getting harder to ignore since the government really is in your face all the time.

[Awoke]

I have a coworker who is not at all bothered by the TSA rules. His response, "I don't fly anyway, so why should I worry about infringement of a right I would never even use?" I think that is how the people of previous generations felt. As long as the government wasn't in their face, they believed they had rights.

Sad.

[chad]

But at least they had the illusion of being free. That illusion has been shattered for all of us here and is becoming less believable for the public at large. Ignorance really is bliss.

I have a coworker who is not at all bothered by the TSA rules. His response, "I don't fly anyway, so why should I worry about infringement of a right I would never even use?" I think that is how the people of previous generations felt. As long as the government wasn't in their face, they believed they had rights. Now, it's getting harder to ignore since the government really is in your face all the time.

i have a friend who used to say that until i pointed out that tsa is now stopping cars on the interstate in some states and checking out people on buses and trains. he uses all those things, so now he's aware of it. try that angle.

[dys]

But at least they had the illusion of being free. That illusion has been shattered for all of us here and is becoming less believable for the public at large. Ignorance really is bliss.

I have a coworker who is not at all bothered by the TSA rules. His response, "I don't fly anyway, so why should I worry about infringement of a right I would never even use?" I think that is how the people of previous generations felt. As long as the government wasn't in their face, they believed they had rights. Now, it's getting harder to ignore since the government really is in your face all the time.

Lower population density had a lot to do with that illusion.

dys

[Book]

https://eyesoftheunderground.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/getready1.jpg

Let's sit this one out and allow our sisters and daughters to embrace their new found Equality.

::) ...who have "historically" suffered discrimination during previous Conscription.

[Twisted Titan]

Im not going anywhere to kill poor people because a socipath in a suit said they are "my" enemy.

I have no quarrel with the enemies The Gubbermint has.

They can pound sand......

[Ponce]

I did my six years only because I knew that it would be my college education for what I wanted to do in the future.... I read every TM & FM manuals that were out at the time plus a few more that were "secret" I also volunteer to learn about mortars, different kind of weapns, how to drive a tank and so on........while I did not made any real money it did keep me alive for many more years.

[General of Darkness]

I'm too old to be drafted.

[Ponce]

General? we are to old to be alive ahahahahahahahah

[LuckyStrike]

No I would not "serve"

Even if we were being invaded by China, I would fight in that case, but at this point I would fight for my family friends and myself because frankly if we are honest that is all that is left.

Nation
Noun:

"A large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory."

We have absolutely none of those things in the US.

[BabushkaLady]

They'd kick my butt out in one day. I have a very low tolerance for people telling me to do stupid things.

I guess that's a "no". ;D

[k-os]

I would get myself a "disability".

[Shami-Amourae]

I'd look for a loophole in the law first. Like here in California it's mandatory to get vaccinated to graduate from the universities, but I found a rare loophole in the law and got out of it. I'm sure there's a lot of creative ways to get out of it, people have done it every time in past conscripted wars.

If that didn't work I'd probably try to flee, though that would probably be the last resort, but I frankly don't know now since I can't project into the future at what would happen.