Obama to End Military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Policy, page 2

Let me play devil's advocate for a minute. Let's see if I can make infowars. Haha..

What if he was trying to dissolve the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, not for equal rights or due to demand from the gay community, but what if he was doing it so all people can be drafted.

His National Service act parallels a bill of which Chuck Rangel (D-NY) proposed in House Resolution 393.

Draft Reinstatement bill

To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the favorable treatment afforded combat pay under the earned income tax credit, and for other purposes.

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Obama at around 6 minutes says:

“One of the things that I’ve proposed, for example, is that I will give a $4000 tuition credit - every student, every year - so that they are not being loaded up with enormous debts, uh, but there will be a community service - a national service component. The military could be one way for you to get this $4000 tuition credit. Another way would be to work in an under-served school that needs help. Another way would be to work in an under-served hospital or a homeless shelter, or a veterans home. The point is, I think it is important for young people to serve.”

I don't necessarily disagree with above, except his first insinuation about "Oh, the military could be one way

." As I don't think anybody should be coerced into joining any part of the military, as serving ones OWN country, here, within would be highly more efficient. Regardless.

In the national debate held at Columbia University Obama goes on to say in response to a question about how to make military service more appealing:

Well, first of all, as commander-in-chief, my job is to keep America safe. And that means insuring that we’ve got the best military on Earth. And that means having the best persons in uniform on Earth. We have that right now, but as a consequence of these wars, they have been strained incredibly. I think it’s important for us to increase the size of our Army and our Marines so we can reduce the pace of tours that our young men and women are on.

Without hesitation or provocation he dives right into national service with:

My grandfather, after Pearl Harbor, joined the military. My grandmother, who had just had a baby at Fort Leavenworth, stayed back and worked on a bomber assembly line.

and in the same long winded jaunt:

But it’s also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months. And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it’s important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some. Source

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Rahm Emanuel when asked about how the Universal service plan would work, the question being "How would this work? Are people going to live in barracks?"

He responds "Universal civil..? Civil Defense Training?

At around 2:00 the reporter still doesn't get the answer he's looking for and asks again something to the extent of "How would we do that? Just go down to a Red Cross building or something?"

Rahm responds: "The whole idea there is you can do it through your state National Guard."

The reporter says, "I'm a little hung up on the barracks.."

Rahm responds: "Rather than figure it out, whether you take a train ride or barrack, think of it this way; it will be a common experience."

Civil defense. Even though, Rahm didn't serve to defend the United States. Though, born in Illinois, he served for the Israeli army and not any branch of the United States military. I have an issue with this. How the hell is someone going to force me to serve, when he won't even serve his own country?

Personally, I have always been drawn to military service. After aquiring my first responder and EMT certifications, joining the military as a medic was instantly on my mind. After much thought and even some ATS dialogue in one of my threads I have settled on becoming a Corpsman in the United States Navy. I believe within the next year I will be signing my life over so that I can serve others and that is my choice, my freewill, as a citizen, as a person protected by my constitution. I will not stand for someone who didn't even serve his own country telling others to serve it. Neither will I stand for the circumvention of our constitutional rights.

Back to the point.

Is this a push for "equal rights" or is this a ploy so that people aren't excluded from the draft for proclaiming their homosexual preference? As Obama said, if we go, we all go! I could see how the sexuality hang up could hold a lot of his conscripts from entering the service under the "don't ask, don't tell."

I apologize in advance, but I'm typing with my tin foil cap on for the first time.