May I rant for a moment? GET OFF OF MY EDUCATION!

[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.

[Floogeldy]

1. All I have to say is that . . .

. . . You are correct. I live and feel your hate.

[otherlander]

3. Huzzah! Agreement!

:woohoo:

Although it's not so much hatred so much as it is "get-away-from-my-people" psyco-defensive mode.

[Floogeldy]

13. I have hatred.

I admit it. I hate every Neocon supporting !!#%^&* in the country.

x(

[otherlander]

16. Good.

:yourock: Here's some Australian rock music to hate Neocons to: http://www.peace-not-war.org/Music/MidnightOil/index.html
Midnight Oil!

[LeftyMom]

2. Not only that but

While nobody gets prosecuted for failure to register for the selective service, poor and middle class boys have to in order to get financial aid for college. Meanwhile, families of means have no incentive for thier sons to register since they can finance thier educations themselves and there is no real consequence for failure to register.

Damned if I know why a young man should have to register for the draft to get help with college money. :shrug:

[otherlander]

6. Yeah, it sucks.... our government is dependent upon

there being an impoverished underclass. It's within their power to get rid of poverty, but they don't want to, because then nobody would have to die for them.

[Random_Australian]

4. What is the selective service?

[otherlander]

7. Well, you're not exactly in the army....but

you have to fight if they tell you to. Not actually joining, but agreeing that you will if you're told to.

[Random_Australian]

10. What a load of shit. Why the fuck has no-one told them to fuck right off?

Nice rant, worthy topic, and your gov should fuck itself.

[otherlander]

11. Yes. Indeed. Except....

now my mind is flooded with sickening images of an army of the satanic lovechildren of various cabinet members.:puke: Rice- Cheney hybrids.... *shudder*

[XemaSab]

18. You're thinking of the national guard or the reserves

The selective service is different.

That's registering for the draft.

Which we don't currently have.

[LeftyMom]

8. Registration for a potential military draft nt

[Lars39]

5. Well placed stickers would seem to be an appropriate form

of civil disobedience. O8)

[otherlander]

9. I put up one of these the other day....

It's on the window of a courtyard, so that when you walk by in the hallway it's on the other side of the window facing you. :toast:

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. I understand your anger at the patriotic crap

But if these are just Selective Service posters and none about enlisting, I think they're just reminding the male students to do the legal thing. I wouldn't assume they want them to go fight *'s war.

[otherlander]

14. Well, I guess it's not as dangerous as the army

at the moment because there is no draft, but once you sign up you're agreeing to go along with any draft put in place.

[Lars39]

15. In many states you don't necessarily have to sign up...

just getting a driver's permit can get you signed up.
They also started looking at birthdates, and automatically signing guys up that way.

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Yeah... and if you don't

they come looking for you.

Look, I understand what you're saying and feeling, but registering for the draft doesn't equal going to war — and it's the law. And, like you said, there is no draft right now, and I doubt this Congress is liable to enact one.

I registered within a day or two of my 18th birthday. That was during Vietnam — near the end of it, but the war was still going and so was the draft. All things considered, there were two chances I'd get called up: slim and none. And if it did happen, I could've filed for conscientious objector status.

I registered not out of any sense of patriotism because I didn't have one — at least, not that kind — but because I didn't want to get busted for not doing it. I think your school might simply be reminding its male students to avoid that, although it sounds like they're doing it with a heavy hand.