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PyroDice
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We have a constitutional amendment outlawing involuntary servitude except as punishment for crime, Any draft violates this constitutional guarantee on its face. (There is no shortage of lawyers able to argue why words in a legal document actually mean the opposite of what everybody knows they mean, but you can read English and so can I.) After years of violating this constitutional guarantee, we finally stopped. I don't see any pressing need that would suggest we should even consider starting up a draft again.
To answer your followup question: the 13th. It reads, in part:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." |
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Live your Life
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there's many reasons. here's one that comes to mind.
not everyone is mentally/physically stable for serving.
would you want a homicidal/suicidal paranoid man with a gun standing beside you on the front lines? |
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STEPHANIE
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As long as everyone has to do it. No college exemptions, no whiner objections...if they are C.O., they can do a desk job. Or offer them the peace corps instead, or two years of cleaning up the national forests or planting trees. Just some sort of government employment for two years,so they learn about their responsibility to their country. |
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Words Twice
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No country that calls itself free should have mandatory service.
I feel the same about this as I do about the draft. If you don't want to be here, then I don't want you here either. |
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Ghost of Tom Joad
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Not quite. I actually think we should have a program modeled after the way Germany does it. They require mandatory service either in the military or community service. I think the latter is important because alot of people would have moral objections to serving in the military due to possible necessity of having to kill someone.
I think the US needs something like this to become connected to one another and gain some understanding on how government works. Right now, people have no idea either how other lives or how government institutions affect all of this. The boost in community spirit would be well worth it, and help everyone better define themselves as Americans with a shared heritage. |
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Ex Air Force/Navy
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Sure! I want all to go into the military. (I had to so you should too) It will be a great way to spend two years of your life. Good for the country too. |
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Berries
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NO!
There's many men out there that join the millitary and then do the stupidest things so they can be sent back home.
I think only for those people that want to serve our Country and have a passion for our Country!
God Bless them and the USA! |
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John J
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Fortunately we now have a volunteer military and don't need mandatory service. No, citizens should not be required to join the military for two years.. Some people just are not meant for the military and the cost would be prohibited. |
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cordeliabrainiac
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In a word, no! We get so many people who are not qualified for so many reasons. It costs a lot of money and time to put them out....I can't imagine what it would be like if we forced people to come in....
I think it would be great if people had do two years of service to the country but not military service. |
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journey
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Do you mean LEGAL CITIZENS?
Yes!
All young men and women should experience boot camp and life there after for two years.
This is fair, agree? |
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Gotta have more explosions!
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Compulsory national service is usually implemented when a country feels threatened or feels a need to mobilize for war.
Korea has it because their neighbor to the north is led by a destructive party. Singapore has it because they're a tiny, rich country surrounded by potential enemies. America had it at a number of times, first to man divisions to fight in Europe and the Pacific, and then because future war with the Warsaw Pact seemed frighteningly likely.
At the moment, no one nation or even alliance has the ability to invade the US directly. There's no need to send conscript armies overseas and no foreseeable threat that would justify training men for future service.
While the military experience would do people good, it's just not enough to justify ballooning the defence budget, watering down the quality of your military or the idea of forcing people into the stressful military life even if they don't want it. |
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anonymousryu
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I Believe for the sake of the deteriorating discipline of the youths of US, something like that should be mandatory.
When I say something like that, I mean:
Make it mandatory right after high school to go to marines 13-week basic training. And then at the end give them the option to continue as a full member or 4 years of community service in your state with the same schedule as a reservist/NG. |
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Jaeger
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I love the IDF for their military obligation thing. Of course they'd have to be "fit to fight" mentally and physically. I think that immigrants should have to take some part in the military before they can become citizens. I think everyone should have to prove their loyalty. |
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Forever
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God Help us to what we have done in Iraq
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=colcD8UVr90
US occupation cost %5 Iraking lifes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dpITDmuZxI
Bill Clinton and Bush father and son allow a private citizen
to build a private army call blackwater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOrh3bvbXEI&feature=related
we have so much oil in Alaska but we can't use that
because our government don't allow the Alaska's oil company to pump oil into our country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbakN7SLdbk |
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michael d
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We did that before it is called draft, now we don't need draft because our military are all volunteer and we meet the requirement. But if hell break loose I go. |
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Mercutia
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I think so- maybe then we would have more patriotism and less liberals... just saying
But, seriously, it would definitely increase patriotism, and make sure all US citizen knew how to defend themselves. |
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