At 02:18 PM 8/16/96 EDT, you wrote:
Bill Stewart <stewarts@ix.netcom.com> writes:
(If Clinton had said things like "Of course I tried to avoid the draft and smoked dope, I'm no fool" and had dropped the draft and the Drug War instead of supporting both after he was President, I might have
There been no draft for about 20 years. What have _you been smoking?
There's still draft registration. Sure, they don't currently ask that your body show up at Camp LeJeune for basic training, but they still insist that you register where you live and essentially give them permission to draft you if they feel like taking the political heat for doing so. It's illegal not to register if you're 18 and male. And they do occasionally track whether people are registered; college loan databases are used for it, and there are occasional mentions in the press that they've used other sources of lists-of-18-year-olds to "remind" people that they have to register, such as public school records. Some day that you're not too disgruntled, walk into a Post Office and look at the posters oon the wall. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> Reassign Authority!