[Peace-discuss] ron paul, teabaggers, and some of their best friends

[C. G. Estabrook]

"The usual explanations for the difference between then and now
won't do. The suggestion, for example, that the renewal of a
military draft would ignite students' self-interest doesn't
account for the fact that most 60s-era students were sufficiently
sheltered from the draft to make their chances of seeing combat
negligible. Lewis B. Hershey, director of the Selective Service
until 1970, granted draft deferments to students and some
white-collar professionals on the reasoning that engineers,
scientists, and teachers were essential to national security and
the war effort. By the time the lottery system evened the playing
field somewhat in 1969, 'Vietnamization' was under way, and the
number of combat roles filled by American GI's began shrinking."

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Times-They-Changed/65192/


On 5/4/10 4:54 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> The only way to get ANY folks out of the woodwork to protest the US's
> imperialist wars is to reinstate the draft. How 'bout we [peace activists]
> start a rumor that that's in the works and see what happens? Add that to
> blogs and picket signs, get talk radio hosts ranting about it. Worth a try
> :-) -- Jenifer
>
> --- On *Mon, 5/3/10, Ricky Baldwin /<baldwinricky at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss]
> ron paul, teabaggers, and some of their best friends To: "E.Wayne Johnson"
> <ewj at pigs.ag> Cc: "Peace Discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Date:
> Monday, May 3, 2010, 11:06 AM
>
> Wayne, I assume you are referring here to the "tea party" as the rebellion?
> I think there's an element of that, but it's dragged so far out of that
> orbit by the weight of its racism and Know-Nothingism, homophobia and fear
> of socialism, and miscellaneous rightwing conspiracy theories, that it's
> more likely to push national policy away from anything that might help
> working people than accomplish anything good and decent...

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.