{"id":2413,"date":"2004-10-22T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T23:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2413"},"modified":"2004-10-22T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T23:07:17","slug":"got-high-school-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2004\/10\/22\/got-high-school-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Got High School Kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry says he&#8217;s opposed to the draft, but what, fundamentally is the difference between conscription and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20040210043828\/www.johnkerry.com\/issues\/natservice\/\">mandatory national service<\/a>?  Kerry has stated that he&#8217;s going to increase the Army by 40,000 soldiers.  Without a draft.  We&#8217;ll just call it &#8220;mandatory national service,&#8221; because, after all, you can go build houses for Jimmy Carter instead of fighting.<br \/>\nAny form of involuntary national service is fundamentally unamerican.  We outlawed slavery in this country.   There will not be a draft under Bush II, unless there&#8217;s a grave crisis that requires a massive mobilization.  Under Kerry, everyone will be drafted.  He&#8217;ll just call it something sweeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kerry says he&#8217;s opposed to the draft, but what, fundamentally is the difference between conscription and mandatory national service? Kerry has stated that he&#8217;s going to increase the Army by 40,000 soldiers. Without a draft. We&#8217;ll just call it &#8220;mandatory national service,&#8221; because, after all, you can go build houses for Jimmy Carter instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}