The Wheat and the Chaff and the Draft 12 09 2021

 So if you are guilty of a felony you can not be drafted in the armed forces.

Can you if you served your time?  I don't know for sure but yes I think you can.  But if you can't own a gun how can you be drafted to fight in a war with one?

But how many in the U.S. are eligible for the draft?

How many men are there in the United States?

How many people are disabled in the United States?  Can't serve in the military if you were disabled while faithfully working for Corporate America?

Where am I going with this? 

One with think that to serve in the military you should be someone that knows how to handle a gun and isn't the type who wants the Second Amendment to go by the wayside?  And perhaps when we had the Revolution that was the greater majority of men in our nation?  But it isn't like that anymore, is it?

What I am getting at is what would the true quality of our fighting force be?

I have heard stories of the high school start player crying their way out of boot camp.  So you can't consider athletic talent a given in terms of what could constitute a viable member of a Constitutionally required militia.  (And how did Rittenhouse not know what a Militia was?  Didn't he ever read the Constitution?  For all his perceived wanting to be a Police Officer, etc?)

It is like a Think Tank from a Foreign Nation is at work slowly destroying the fabric of our Democracy?

As if they are waiting for the opportunity to "roll" our nation?  Perhaps say we are now beholding to China because of the debt we owe them.  Some baloney like that.

And so whoever goes off to fight ends up fighting to protect those guilty of a felony back home?  Going off to fight for the alcoholic wealth class and the dubious distinctions they have birthed?

So let's say that we got in a war with China and Russia and won?  Do we expect to be over their policing those countries like we presumably were doing in the Middle East?  Flawed idea isn't it?

Which means what?  "Who" do we make a deal with in the nations we go to war with and end up conquering?  God forbid we lose.  Doesn't anybody believe we were able to reconstruct Iraq or Afghanistan?  And what happened during 911?  Presumably terrorist rose straight up out of the sand, took college courses on how to fly planes, kidnapped the planes and flew them into our buildings?  Meaning they were able to assemble against us out of nothing after we made an enemy out of them?  Through what?  An Imperialist oil as energy policy?

And what about all our high tech military equipment?  I bet it is no better than that cheap electronica item that goes caput after a year.  And whose gonna man it?  A minuteman who won't push the button because of a momentary change in conscience?

And when they return from a War they walk around looking queer at everyone here?

© 2021 Thomas Murphy

""""If you are enlisted or drafted, you’ll be automatically prevented from enlisting in any of the forces if you’ve been charged with various felonies, are presently on parole, or probation, or incarcerated. There is no way to waive this situation and it also includes instances of pending charges, unless the charge covers unpaid traffic tickets.

Do Felons Get Drafted? Can You Be Drafted If You Are A Felon?

felonyfriendlyjobs.org/do-felons-get-drafted/"""""

20 million Americans in society at large currently have a felony in their past, and this immense population is effectively statistically invisible. The Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control—none can tell us practically anything about conditions of life for these tens of millions of Americans.

America’s Invisible Felon Population

www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/b23fea23-8e98-4bcd-aeed-edcc061a
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