HEllo LEe,   
      
   On Sat 2012-Mar-03 21:31, Lee Lofaso (2:203/2) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
   LL> Politicians do not want responsibility or accountability.   
   LL> That is why reinstatement of the draft (regardless of form)   
   LL> will never happen.  We have the mercenary army the pols   
   LL> have always wanted.  As such, if it ain't broke, why fix it?    
      
   YEs, that's what they want, it's only those without good   
   options who go now.   
      
    RW> YOu might end up toting a rifle,   
      
   LL> Conscientious objectors will never tote a rifle of any kind.    
      
   Too bad, then they can forfeit their rights to vote and   
   otehr such imho.   
      
    RW> or you might be helping build a road or dig a well, or, as you say,   
   LL> counting   
    RW> penguins, whatever's needed.   
      
   LL> Conscientious objectors will also refuse to go along with other   
   LL> kinds of service, on the grounds that doing so would be supporting   
   LL> the war effort, even if there is no war going on at the time.    
      
   See above.   
      
   LL> Physical and/or mental disability would disqualify many from   
   LL> serving, even if they wanted to.  Not really an issue for   
   LL> conscientious objectors, since they would refuse to serve regardless   
   LL> of their physical/mental capacity to do so.   
      
   Why should so-called physical disabilities exempt you?  See   
   earlier in this thread.  Does being blind disqualify a   
   diesel mechanic or a computer programmer?  Except for the   
   severely disabled who can't do much useful even for   
   themselves anybody and everybody should serve imho.   
      
    RW> Imho it just makes sense, helpsyoung people prepare for life as citizens   
    RW> over adn above hs, and gives us the bodies we need, whether it be to fight   
    RW> a war, or provide international aid or bodies for   
    RW> public projects that do us good that need bodies to happen.   
      
   LL> It makes far better sense to denounce war in all its various forms,   
   LL> and promoting and practicing nonviolence in its place.   
      
   Dream on!   
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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