Selective Service (the rarefied air of elite colleges)

Stanford Daily ^

[RockinRye]

I have a number of questions:

a. How does a Swiss guy mix up the SS and the Gestapo?

b. Does this guy know that the President can't call up the draft? Is he intentionally lying to impugn GW, or is he just a moron who believes the lamestream media?

c. Does Switzerland have mandatory military service? (I thought I read that somewhere...)

d. What perpetual degeneration of Iraq? Did liberals not read the Iraqi election stories?

e. Is this the kind of inanity that's going to come out of our 'elite' colleges for the next generation?

[shubi]

I hope when we need the draft, we can exempt the traitorous cowardly left.

[Bahbah]

What perpetual degeneration of Iraq? Did liberals not read the Iraqi election stories?

Liberals are not required to take into account any facts they don't like or that disprove their world view.

[joedelta]

What a punk!

[andyandval]

Is this the kind of inanity that's going to come out of our 'elite' colleges for the next generation?

Yes. Just like the last generation.

[okie01]

The answer is e.)...

They'll leave the fighting to the underprivileged patriots in the non-elite universities, community colleges and common high schools. People such as Liefer are just too good to risk...

[RockinRye]

It's the New Science...just throw out the bad data.

[NEBUCHADNEZZAR1961]

OK, OK, so maybe I’m not actually a draft-dodger. To be quite honest, my apparent refusal to register for Selective Service is grounded for the most part in laziness, not dissent.

So what are you complaining about? Get down to the post office and register and do your duty, a duty Jimmy Carter re-instituted back in 1979 mind you. Man to be a liberal really means not having to be held accountable for anything.

[SpyGuy]

I hope when we need the draft, we can exempt the traitorous cowardly left.

Exempt them -- are you mad?!? Do you really want all these hippie-wannabees to stay back home breeding baby hippie-wannabees while our nation's real men are dying on the battlefield?

I say, put these pukes on the front lines, pronto! Preferably, as minefield sweepers.

[Beaker]

I hope when we need the draft, we can exempt the traitorous cowardly left
I just hope that we'll never need the draft.

[Sooth2222]

The guy's at STANFORD???? Good grief, he can't even WRITE!

[Joe 6-pack]

"I know that I will not take part. I’ll be a happy Swiss in Switzerland."

In other words..

"I'll be content to sit on my fat ass and enjoy the freedoms of America until I'm expected to do something to help preserve them. At that point, I'll run away."

[RockinRye]

"I guess what really bugs me, go figure, is what the Selective Service stands for"

What's that - the idea that citizenship entails a responsibility to help defend the nation?

[armyman]

I say, put these pukes on the front lines, pronto! Preferably, as minefield sweepers.
I agree.

[Texas_Jarhead]

the author is a dolt

[azhenfud]

b(2) seems to fit the bozo well.

[LauraleeBraswell]

Switzerland does not give out citizenship as freely as the US does.

[anniegetyourgun]

Waddatwit.

BTW, welcome to FR.

[Doctor Raoul]

I hope this punk's X-Box shorts out. That'll make him cry.

[AdrianR]

Does Switzerland have mandatory military service?

Yes, 3 or 4 months long. After which they get an automatic gun with ammo to keep at home so that they could quickly defend Switzerland if another country attacks (which has not happened in last 8 centuries, though).