I'm about to ruin your day: HR 4752

[elfs]

I stared up at the cold, uncaring stars, and shreiked in unholy madness as I read House Bill 4752, introduced into Congress this year:

Purpose: To provide for the common defense by requiring all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.

(Emphasis mine.) It's currently locked up in the Subcommittee on Military Personnel and will probably go nowhere, but doesn't it warm the cockles of your heart (or maybe the subcockle region, maybe your liver, maybe your rectum! No, that's just clenching...) to know that Representative Charles B. Rangel cares so much about his country?

Okay, the guy's a Democrat, and a one-man "I move that the house recognize so-and-so for his or her acheivements in..." yadda yadda yadda machine. It's probably a publicity thing. But the fact that it's there at all annoys me. I hate politics.

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[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

I had the impression that he was serious about it, as a mechanism for better social cohesion and to force everyone to rub elbows with everyone else. At least, that's the way he talks about the issue for the media.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]