On 07-14-10, DAVE DRUM said to BOB ACKLEY:

-=> Bob Ackley wrote to Dave Drum <=-

DD>> Why do you have this stick up your butt about military
DD>> service? If a person cannot wield a weapon then that person
DD>> should not be in the military. Period.

BK>>  Why not? Conscientious objectors serve as medics.

BA> In point of fact during Vietnam the Viet Cong used the red corsses on
BA> medics' helmets for target practice.  Many combat unit medics did not
BA> wear the red cross on their helmets for exactly that reason.  The Cong
BA> also used as targets the red crosses on ambulances and medevac
BA> helicopters.


DD>While that is true. And while it is a shame that the Dulles brothers did
DD>not have to serve in any front-line capacity in a mess that they were the
DD>proximate cause of it's beside the point I was making. Which is, I see no
DD>earthly reason that *military* service, whether as a combat troop, a CO
DD>serving as a medic, or someone who is just a REMF, should be a requirement
DD>for citizenship. SERVICE to the nation is what I posited as a requirement
DD>for citizenship. It might be military service, or it might be sorting
DD>buttons in Ketchican, AK. But it NEED NOT be "military" service.


DD>Those wishing to remain second-class residents of the country without the
DD>perks and privileges (and duties) of being a citizen need not serve but,
DD>must take life as it comes to them and have little say in the matter.


DD>Those wanting to have a say need to prove their worthiness by volunteering
DD>their service. Else they must siddown, sharrop and hang on to whatever
DD>crumbs they can get as a second-class resident.


I find it disgusting that, in a country where there are elaborate ways to
check the ID of someone buying alchohol or tobacco, and there are stiff
penalties for using false ID to purchase either one of those products,
something as important as voting to elect local and national figures who will
determine our policy and how the public moneys gets spent, gets a pass.


I cannot imagine under what logic someone like Al Franken would be left in
office, were it to be shown he was put there by fraudulent voting.


Its the same as a bank robber buying a house with money they took in a bank
holdup, getting to keep the house once they are caught!


Just as the bank the robber robbed to get the money was illegally deprived of
the funds, the majority of voters in an election that is won by the opposite
side through fraudulent voting, are deprived of good government.



And just as the house would be taken away from the bank robber because it was
purchased with stolen money......a person who won political office by
fraudulent votes should be removed from that office, and the real winner
installed.


A far too casual manner of handling voter fraud is in play in this country.


And a far too loose a method of voter registration as well. Registering to
vote should have a far stricter criteria than it does, as well as stricter
supervision of the voter rolls.


"You're going to have to kill some crackers! You're going to have to kill some
of their babies."  ......Samir Shabazz


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