May I rant for a moment? GET OFF OF MY EDUCATION! [View All]

[otherlander]

The hallways of the schools are lined with Selective Service posters. They're nothing new but lately they've been pissing my off. There's also a sign across which in red lights runs the command MALE SENIORS REGISTER WITH THE SELECTIVE SERVICE WHEN YOU TURN 18. Why are they trying to get us involved in this? Not 'us', really, since I'm female, but us STUDENTS. WHY? None of us were old enough to vote in the last presidential! None of us had a say in this, had a hand in electing this killing fest or an opportunity to unelect it. So how dare they try to get us involved?
And they're such blatant propaganda! Flags and noble-looking profiles. Serve your duty to your country. That's what they want us to think. They don't want us thinking that we might be killed and put our loved ones through hell, that we might kill those who do not deserve to die, that we might be sent to fight for a lie and come back broken people. Fucking propaganda. And who is it who dares to tell us that this is our duty? Who decided that? It was a bunch of rich elitists, profiteering off of bloodshed! They're all safe in their insulated worlds, and they dare to call it OUR duty to die for them?
How dare they? It's just another program designed to serve the wants of the few at the expense of the needs of the many. They're turning our schools into funnels to channel the young masses into their warped causes. I guess they want to make sure that there's No Child Left Behind, because they need all the cannon fodder they can get.