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No Registration: Stop the Draft Before It Stops You

By VVAW

Military for whom?

The only uniform that Ronald Reagan Jr. is about to wear is a pink tou-tou. John-John Kennedy last saluted 20 years ago at his father's funeral, and sured as hell is not going to Lebanon with the Marines. Very few children of senators or congressmen ever turned up in combat units in Vietnam; the only Rockefeller kid killed lately was eaten by cannibals while playing anthropologist in and around Pacific Islands.

Who managed to get out of the last draft? Among others, college kids (and that takes a whole more bucks today), med with psychological or medical problems (that requires only buying a doctor) or people doing essential jobs (like working on dad's re-election campaign?).Even the sons of high-ranking officers only got close enough to combat to have their tickets punched so they could move up the brass ladder. Meanwhile, out in the boonies, the sons of working people had to hack their way through the jungles or tap dance through minefields.

Nothing is going to change this time around. What it comes down to is this: a rich man's war (and profits) and a poor man's fight (and blood). The rich and their children can sit back and enjoy the butter while minority and working people's kids get the guns. This time, hopefully, the poor kids will know which way to point them.