I only have this report, which doesn’t say much. Nothing so far on the ordinance proponents’ site.
Can’t say I’m surprised.
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June 18, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Skippy
I think that if there was to be a draft, or any other kind of compulsory national service, it should only include persons 30-50 years of age. Actually I think that even voluntary admission to the armed forces should be limited to that age bracket. Folks younger than that have hardly had a chance to have any kind of life yet, much less developed the maturity needed to make an enlistment decision that might cost them their lives.
[Also, they just get out of some 12+ years of compulsory education, and now they would have 4 or more years of compulsory national service on top of that? Esseantially born into slavery, with no hope of freedom 'til age 22... is that what we really want for our kids?]
Better yet, members of Congress who declare war (or cede that authority to the President) along with the President and his Exec branch war enthusiasts should be on the front lines. A President who is so sure that war is absolultely necessary should be “leading the charge” with the Vice President safely ensconced in the White House until the end of the war, or when the President gets killed in action, whichever comes first.
Sending our children to do our dirty work and be injured or killed in the process, while the politicians wax poetical about their sacrifices, is the height of immorality and hypocrisy.
I bet we’d have a lot less wars if we couldn’t send the kids as cannon fodder, and especially if the chicken-hawk civilian leaders had to put their own well-padded rear ends on the line!
June 18, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Anonymous
Not a peep from the David Cobb cult brains on this one. They must still be licking their wounds from the Measure T embarassment.
June 18, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Anonymous
They are over at Heraldo’s peeping away.
June 19, 2009 at 5:16 am
mresquan
How was T an embarassment?
June 19, 2009 at 7:54 am
Anonymous
How much public money and time did Cobb and Kaitlin waste on this latest fiasco? When will the public learn that they never take on a project that doesn’t have a PayPal button linked to their personal account. They can’t lose but we lose every time.
June 19, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Skippy
Yet another reason to be wary of military recruiters involvement with minors:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iNUnQ7uErGq9PAox6lkCBTfc3vwwD98IUGD80
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June 12
HEMET, Calif. (AP) — Police have arrested a U.S. Marine Corps recruiter on charges of felony pimping and kidnapping and are looking into whether he used sex with a 14-year-old girl to entice potential recruits.
Staff Sgt. Bryan Damone Cunningham, 33, of San Pedro pleaded not guilty to seven felonies last Thursday after police in Orange discovered the teenage girl in a car with Cunningham and two other men. The two men, ages 18 and 19, were potential Marine recruits, police said.
The girl, who has since been returned to her parents in Hemet, told police that she met Cunningham online and had sex with all three men. She also told police Cunningham wanted her to work as a prostitute and had tried to take her to Los Angeles County against her will.
Police said they are trying to determine if Cunningham may have been using the girl to entice Marine recruits.
“It’s not proven … but when you look at it, this is a grown man, a Marine staff sergeant,” said Hemet police Lt. Joe Nevarez. “Why would he be taking them out to have sex with a 14-year-old girl?”
Cunningham’s attorney, Dane Levy, did not immediately return a call seeking comment Tuesday.
The two potential Marine recruits face felony charges on having sex with a minor.
Cunningham is being held on $1 million bail and has a court hearing June 18, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney’s office.
Hemet is east-southeast of Los Angeles
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Just in case there’s anyone too dense to see the relevance of this article:
If they had a “Youth Protection Act” in place in that community, the recruiter would have been banned from contacting the 14 year-old girl in the first place.
June 22, 2009 at 10:55 am
Anonymous
Skippy, your reasoning (or lack thereof) is amazing. Be wary and distrustful of teachers because some have been arrested and convicted of child molest and keep those under 18 yrs away from them? Be wary and distrustful of the clergy because some have been arrested and convicted of child molest and keep those under 18 yrs away from them? Be wary and distrustful of doctors because some have been arrested and convicted of child molest and keep those under 18 yrs away from them?
Be wary and distrustful of lawyers because some have been arrested and convicted of child molest and keep those under 18 yrs away from them? Ok, at least we maybe can agree on this last one.
June 22, 2009 at 11:32 am
Eric Kirk
Be wary and distrustful of teachers because some have been arrested and convicted of child molest and keep those under 18 yrs away from them?
Not very likely that anyone would have that history and be allowed to teach. Nor physicians.
June 22, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Mr. Nice
Repeal No Child Left Behind.
April 2, 2010 at 5:09 am
Neville A. Ross
Great idea, the only problem is most 30somethings can’t really cut the mustard in Basic Training, and would wash out-that’s why most of the fighting’s done by teens and twentysomethings. The problem gets worse when you have to get pilots-20somethings are the ones usually picked to fly fighterplanes, because of their youth, and specialities like Marine training are just as problematic. Then again, maybe it might work.