Ramsey Clark's International Action Center Shifts Tactics
Yesterday, a group calling itself "No Draft, No Way" held a "National Conference Against the Draft & Military Recruiting" in New York. The group is an arm of Ramsey Clark's International Action Center (IAC).
Excerpts from an announcement on the IAC's website describes the conference:
"On Saturday, April 16, youth, veterans, and anti-draft organizers from across the U.S. will gather for a Conference on Draft Resistance and Counter Recruiting. The conference, to be held at P.S. 41 in Manhattan, will feature draft resistance organizers, community activists, and students involved in counter-recruiting work. Workshops will focus on concrete actions and organizing tools to fight the draft, to organize resistance in the event of the return of conscription, and to remove military recruiters and ROTC programs from campuses...This conference will feature veterans, draft counselors, counter-recruiting organizers, and youth activists. Workshops will be focused on developing concrete strategies and tactics to stop the draft before it starts and shut down military recruiting."
The conference marks a shift in the IAC's attempt to cripple the U.S.-led effort in the Middle East. Having failed to prevent U.S. intervention there by organizing massive pre-war protests, the IAC, disheartened by a generally weak turnout during its March 19/20 anti-war protests, appears to be shifting its resources towards a movement that will now try to weaken the US military directly by undermining its recruitment efforts.
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If figures that Clark's group would oppose the draft since there isn't any.
When the draft was ended more than thirty years ago the "anti-war" movement collapsed. The left would love to have a draft re-instated, it was their best recruiting tool. The only people proposing a draft is the left with Charlie Rangel leading the charge.
The attempt to shutdown recruiting will only serve to get protestors thrown in jail where various leftwing activists can begin their own recruiting program. It is an old communist technique of turning a non-violent protest into a violent one in order to get "useful idiots" arrested and then "convert" them to the cause in prison.
Most people are too young to remember that a large part of the left-wing anti-draft protestors didn't want to end conscription, only military conscription. They favored compulsory national serice for all youth. My guess is that there will be a push for this coming from the left pretty soon.
Unfortunately, there are too many conservatives who are also drooling at the idea of compulsory national service where they will get their chance to indoctrinate the young with good "moral values". Buchanan and Fulani may come together again on that issue.
We need to remember that conscription for any purpose is wrong. It is impractical as well as immoral.
I assume that P.S. 41 will be hosting a group with the opposing point of view. Right? Sure.
Equal time at PS 41?
I doubt it, PS 41 is in Greenwich Village. When the last non-leftist died there he was stuffed, mounted and put on display so that people could remember what a non-leftist looked like.
Village residents are offering a reward for any evidence that might help identify the person that voted for Bush in the last election.
I love this: The impending draft to go along with the impending global warming catastrophe, impending AIDS pandemic among straight and monogomous non-drug users, and impending fascist Christian/Jewish state being established in the US. Another fictitious dragon for the Lefties to slay.
If (and only if) the Left resorts to violent means to close down military recruiting centers, then maybe the military can realize some cost savings by integrating live fire anti-terrorism training facilities with their recruiting facilities.
What better way to train for the bomb-lobbing terrorists in the Middle East than to practice on violent, brainwashed, fanatical terrorists at our own campuses?
Nixon tried it at Kent State, but he botched the PR spin.
They want to hurt recruitment so there has to be a draft. They would love that because it would give them something to use in their recruitment efforts. If you ask me actively trying to prevent the U.S. Military from recruiting is boarder line treason.
Meyer says,
"Unfortunately, there are too many conservatives who are also drooling at the idea of compulsory national service where they will get their chance to indoctrinate the young with good "moral values"."
No Rightminded Conservative would want compulsory national service!
Please give me the list of, "too many conservatives who are also drooling."
Government "mandated voluntarism" is a stock leftist notion.-- The Young Pioneers of Fidel Castro-- the Total State of Benito Mussolini--the Hitler Youth-- the Little Red Book of Mao-Tse-Tung, the Red Guards--the various Lenin-Stalin groups whose names escape me.
I am looking forward to that long list of conservatives that are pro-COMPULSORY national service.
P.S. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reported only 79 cases of litigation in the area of employment hiring discrimination under Title I of the ADA during the period from 1993 to March 1998
(EEOC, 1998).
NOT THAT YOU"RE CONCERNED WITH FACTS GETTING IN THE WAY OF A GOOD OLE' "Libertarian Screech!"
Red Beard I lived in that area in NYC . Republicans in that area call
themselves Maranno Republicans. We generaly stay quiet to keep peace.
Maranno refers to the Jews who hid
durring the Spanish inquisition. I had a friend who swore he got far more abuse as a Republican then as a gay man.
Maranno is a term that is upsetting to some so be careful how you use it.
What are the links between Ramsey Clark and the World Workers Party, the main stalinist-baathist mouthpiece in the US?
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John Kerry was for "mandatory service" for high school students before he was against it, at least according to this version of John Kerry's presidential campaign website that found itself in the memory hole.
Recall, this was the guy who falsely accused President Bush of having secret plans for a draft.
The 21st Century Democratic Party is a strange animal. It scores political points by accusing its opponents of supporting THEIR ideas.
Something stinks about that. It's as if they KNOW their ideas suck, so they accuse Republicans of supporting them.
Celebrate victory, but sober up. There's still some 58 miilion Americans, minus a few hundred thousand or so non-existent Pennsylvanians that "voted" before the polls opened, that actually voted for Kerry, despite the lack of any rationally defensible reason to do so.
Next time, the Democrats might run with someone less easily discredited, although I'm stymied as to how they'll prevent said candidate from opening his/her/its mouth.
I remember now, one of the Lenin-Stalin "mandated voluntarism" programs.
THE GULAG!
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