13-06-2010, 07:54 PM
The draft will not likely ever be seen again: it could possibly put men and women with a conscience and some cognitive skills on the battlefield, would again become politically explosive (half the COINTELPRO, COG and perception management programs are devoted to or available to the suppression of anti-war dissent), and would "disable" in some sense the move towards the privatization of war where special units can operate as corporate entities and thus be beyond sight and accountability.
In 1966, I was blessed with an English teacher who taught (among other things) the poetry of World War I and who shunned me when I showed up after graduation in my "almost-a-soldier" pretend uniform, and I was blessed when a 6'6" football player practicing spring lacrosse indoors cross-checked me into a concrete-and-steel support beam, thus creating a knee injury that made me a 1-Y in the draft. My orthopaedic surgeon practiced in a town that to this day remains avowedly dissident in terms of war and justice.
In 1966, I was blessed with an English teacher who taught (among other things) the poetry of World War I and who shunned me when I showed up after graduation in my "almost-a-soldier" pretend uniform, and I was blessed when a 6'6" football player practicing spring lacrosse indoors cross-checked me into a concrete-and-steel support beam, thus creating a knee injury that made me a 1-Y in the draft. My orthopaedic surgeon practiced in a town that to this day remains avowedly dissident in terms of war and justice.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"