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POLL: What do you think about a draft?

Whatever happen to those people that runaway to Canada to evade the draft during the Vietnam war? Are they still up there or back to US already? Whats the penalty for avoiding draft anwyay?
 
Originally posted by: rufruf44
Whatever happen to those people that runaway to Canada to evade the draft during the Vietnam war? Are they still up there or back to US already? Whats the penalty for avoiding draft anwyay?
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I believe they were all given pardons. I might be wrong though.
 
What is the cut off age for the draft if there is one? I know it starts at 18 to ??? 65? Just threw in a random number.
 
Originally posted by: her209
I support it, but would have to be in support of the war as well...
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Does this mean that you would serve if called? If you're uncertain, then I disagree with your above statement. If you are a law-abiding citizen you have two options:

1. Serve when called.
2. State your objections and go to jail willingly.

You can't pick and choose when you're going to support your country, nor is it your prerogative to decide that the law doesn't apply to you because you think it's wrong. Once in the military, you have a duty to refuse and report illegal orders, but as for a right to refuse a summons to service, I don't buy that.
 
If I was drafted I wouldn't evade it. I don't want a draft to happen though. Its a mixed bag kind of deal. I do know that I love this country and what it stands for too much to not fight for it if I was drafted. It would be harder to do it if it was another Vietnam type deal, but I would still go. Thing is I'm almost flat footed so I don't think they would take me anyway.😱


edit: spelling
 
Originally posted by: motoamd
What is the cut off age for the draft if there is one? I know it starts at 18 to ??? 65? Just threw in a random number.
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26 for the Selective Service. I think they could probably go past 35 if the military were really desperate, but we'd have to have an invasion of the USA for that to be necessary.
 
I can't understand the people who could serve but would evade, what do you think you deserve the rights as a citizen, but other people should make sure that you can have them when they serve? Makes me proud to have deadbeats like you in the US.
 
I'm eligible, and I would go if called. It is my duty to do so as an American.

However, if it looked like I was going to be drafted, I would enlist and try to get a job in the rear with the gear. As a chemical engineer with computer programming experience, I would think I would be more valuable doing something other than being cannon-fodder. Want me to build a better bomb? Give me some books and a computer and I'll see what I can come up with.

Ryan
 
Originally posted by: Scipionix
Originally posted by: her209
I support it, but would have to be in support of the war as well...
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Does this mean that you would serve if called? If you're uncertain, then I disagree with your above statement. If you are a law-abiding citizen you have two options:

1. Serve when called.
2. State your objections and go to jail willingly.

You can't pick and choose when you're going to support your country, nor is it your prerogative to decide that the law doesn't apply to you because you think it's wrong. Once in the military, you have a duty to refuse and report illegal orders, but as for a right to refuse a summons to service, I don't buy that.
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Sure it is. Remember Jim Crow laws or British tax law. Thank goodness people decided those laws no longer apply to them. More should have done so in Veitnam too.

Draft is nohing nothing but slavery of you poor males to fight for rich corperations and/or politians ambitions. If the casue is RIGHT you'd have people signing up in droves.
 
1. Serve when called.
2. State your objections and go to jail willingly.
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Go and maybe get shot, etc... and die. Or go to jail and be bubba's love toy :Q

am I the only one that thinks both options suck?
 
I would only support a draft *if* and only if the following conditions were met:

1. Women were drafted for at *least* non combat positions.
2. Only if it were *absolutely* neccesary, such as if our nation was directly attacked or invaded by a foreign state. Our nation would need to be in dire need. (WW2). No drafting to save a nation from communism.
3. (obvious) Only after all eligible volunteers and reserves were exhausted. (or it looked like they would be in the short-term).
4. If efforts were made to ensure that the affluent were not able to avoid the draft so easily.

If I were called, I would go. No doubt about it. If it came down to a point before a draft where they were calling for volunteers, I guess my opinion would depend on the situation and who we were fighting, and for what reason.
 
I would be willing to serve if necessary, but it would have to be a war that is worth fighting. If we just feel like invading some stupid country and they fight back, then I would be opposed. OTOH, if it were a serious threat like in WW2, I would be glad to go assuming I get a posting that fits my qualifications and they don't just throw me on the front line with some bedwetters.
 
Originally posted by: Rainsford
Originally posted by: rufruf44
Whatever happen to those people that runaway to Canada to evade the draft during the Vietnam war? Are they still up there or back to US already? Whats the penalty for avoiding draft anwyay?
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I believe they were all given pardons. I might be wrong though.
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Pardons? gosh......thats just unfair.......
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
We called them REMF's.
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Rear-echelon, uh, market forces?

I don't "have too many skills" to be in a combat unit. Nobody's "too good" to fight. Still wouldn't want to be a ground-pounder though.
 
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