UK: Teenage national service planned by Cameron
They always go for the teenagers because they are the most helpless. Try and draft 30 and 40 year-olds and see what you get. Mr. Cameron is lacking in principles. He will resort to coercion “if necessary”. Beware Britain! This proposal is not even a thinly veiled Trogan Horse that will bring conscription to your land and your people will lose their right to choose their own destiny--Editor
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Posted on Sep 11, 07 | 4:01 am
Press TV: Israeli draft dodging on the rise
Even though some Zionists won’t let themselves be drafted because the army is clearing settlements, and the settlements are the greatest threat to peace in the middle east (west Asia), we still view this resistance to conscription as a positive development--Editor /
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Posted on Sep 11, 07 | 3:46 am
Martyr Chose God's Kingdom over Hitler's
Franz Jagerstatter will be beatified next month in Linz, Austria. Linz was the boyhood home of Adolf Hitler, who re-introduced conscription in Germany in 1935. It was the Catholic Center Party in Germany in 1933 that swung their votes in the Reichstag to the national socialists and the nationalists on the “Enabling Act” which gave Hitler his dictatorship. I guess what goes around comes around--Editor
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Posted on Sep 11, 07 | 3:34 am
WSWS: New push for military draft in US
We don’t think in terms of class or race. For us, those things do not exist. The way we see it, there are only individuals, and you can’t judge one by another. But in the antidraft movement we will march alongside our socialist brothers against the real threat to world peace--US military intervention in the affairs of other countries!--Editor
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Posted on Sep 11, 07 | 3:18 am
Fighting the draft during Summer of Love
Go ahead, Selective Slavery, try and draft the sons and daughters of these folks from the Summer of Love. They will swarm all over you. They are still around and they will never forget what you and your draft did to their generation. Selective Slavery drafted millions of Americans and millions of people died in Southeast Asia --Editor
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Posted on Sep 11, 07 | 3:08 am
AP: Another Malaysian teenager dies during National Service training
The only things this kind of coercion will instill in the youth are a distrust of their government and a hatred of slavery!--Editor
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Posted on Sep 11, 07 | 2:53 am
Taiwan News: Proposal to create all-volunteer force wins MND respect
Looks like the KMT and the DPP are falling all over themselves trying to phase out conscription. Let’s hope it happens. The 3 months mandatory military training for males that Ma wants is still UMT(Universal Military Training) and compulsory--Editor
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Posted on Sep 11, 07 | 2:39 am