Oregon Bill Would Require New Drivers to Register for Selective Service

[chlamor]

Oregon Bill Would Require New Drivers to Automatically Register For Selective Service

From the Catholic Sentinel: The Oregon Catholic Conference and Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon have teamed up to oppose a bill that connects drivers’ licenses with a military draft. House Bill 2575 (PDF of bill) would automatically register young men for Selective Service when they sign up for licenses or state identification cards.

“There is a significant difference in moral judgments that an individual makes between applying for issuance or renewal of a driver’s license, permit or an identification card on the one hand and registering with the Selective Service System on the other,” says a statement written by Oregon Catholic Conference executive director Bob Castagna and read to the House Transportation Committee March 30 by Philip Kennedy Wong of Ecumenical Ministries...

Signing up for a driver’s license does not involve moral questioning, the statement said, but registering for Selective Service “raises issues of the most critical judgments and moral decisions a person may be called to make in life: potentially placing oneself in the position of agreeing to engage in warfare, use all the weapons in our nation’s arsenal and take human lives." Read More

http://rncwatch.typepad.com/counterrecruiter/2005/04/oregon_bill_wou.html

[Mr_Spock]

1. Son of a bitching bastardly ass holes!!

I had to sign up to get a student loan - slimy bastards

[roguevalley]

2. oh puck.

[movonne]

3. Who came up with this crazy bill HB 2575????

[chlamor]

5. At website

you can download on PDF the whole bill.

[KamaAina]

6. You get three guesses. The first two don't count.

Possible Top Ten nomination here:

http://www.sentinel.org/articles/2005-15/13802.html

Rep. Jeff Kropf, the Sublimity Republican who introduced House Bill 2575, calls the legislation a matter of fairness and a help to the 10 percent of Oregon men age 18 to 26 who fail to register.

Those who don’t sign up for selective service may miss out on college aid, federal jobs and even naturalization, Kropf told the Transportation Committee last month.

"Some young men simply don’t think they need to do it or they forget," Kropf said. "This simply assures it’s going to get done. . . . It ultimately has a very negative consequence if you just forget."

What's a Sublimity Republican? Is that like some kind of bizarro New Age/repuke hybrid? :-) (obviously Sublimity must be a place in Ore., but it just sounds so weird!)

"It ultimately has a very negative consequence if you just forget." Remind you of anyone? A male cheerleader from Crawford, perhaps?

[Spinzonner]

4. Drive a car ...

Shoot a terrorist

[PsN2Wind]

7. Sorry Y'all

but I'm glad to see anything that pushes the possibility of a draft to the fore in the minds of young men and their parents. I don't want to see anymore kids killed in Dubya's wars but I want people to realize that they or theirs might get to be involved if changes aren't made.