"Food For Thought": The Draft in The New American Century

An excerpt from an in-depth, thought-provoking article via blatanttruth.org on the possibility of a military draft in 2005: "Here are the facts on the Skills Draft, an account confirmed by (1) the internal Agenda document recovered through the Freedom of Information Act, now posted on the Web and acknowledged as real by the SSS, and (2) the statements of the Pentagon, Selective Service Congressional liaison Richard Flavahan, and Acting Director Lewis Brodsky. We now know that on February 11, 2003, Charles Abell, the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, and William Carr, Deputy Undersecretary for Military Personnel Policy, met with Lewis Brodsky, the Acting Director of the Selective Service, Flavahan, and some other officials. This is the highest-level meeting you could have about the draft, outside of Rumsfeld and his inner circle. The proposed changes discussed in this meeting include:

• Allow a non-combat draft for shortages in critical skills, without calling a combat draft. This non-combat Skills Draft would induct men and women ages 18 to 34.
• Fill labor shortages of all kinds throughout not only DoD but the Dept. of Homeland Security and other agencies as well, especially high-paying professional positions like computer networking specialist or linguist. However, truck drivers, cooks, and several hundred other skills are also considered "critical."
• Create a single-point, all-inclusive database, in which every young person would be forced to send in a "self-declaration" -- like an IRS form -- of all of their critical skills, chosen from a long list of several hundred occupations, similar to the Air Force Specialty Code with Skills Identifier. The usual penalties of imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine would apply to all non-registrants.
• Upgrade the Medical Draft so that it collects data on skill sets and other information in the same way the Skills Draft would.
• Reduce induction time from being able to deliver all inductees in 193 days down to just 90 days for skills and medical inductees..." (source: BlatantTruth.org)

NOTE TO ALL READERS: I strongly urge all interested readers to entire original article (full article) on BlatantTruth.org. The website also has many other intriguing articles, sources and links on a variety of political issues.