...will not return are correct. Some say it's just too stupid a move. That does not soothe me given who is in charge.
I served 13 months in an Arizona prison camp for refusing draft induction during Vietnam. I was fortunate in that I spent my 12-hour days outdoors cutting brush and trees. The average refusenik spent 18 months behind bars, and some unlucky men were imprisoned for several years.
Now I have a 23-year-old stepson who faces a double-whammy. His is a long story. The short version: When he was 3 and his sister 2, their father kidnapped them from their mother - now my wife - and took them from Oregon back to his homeland in Libya. He refused to allow her to see her children for 15 years. Finally, my wife managed to see them for a couple of weeks in Tripoli. After two more years of meeting in Libya, then in Malta, her son chose to come to the States where he has now lived with us and attended college for two years.
In January, I finally persuaded him to sign up for the draft. If you don't, of course, you lose access to various government benefits, including student loans. I told him then I thought it very unlikely the draft would be reinstated. But, if it was, I said, we'd deal with it then. Obviously, he knows my history.
Six weeks ago, he received a letter from his father, which included a draft notice from the Libyan government. Although he holds a U.S. passport, if he fails to report for army duty within three months, he is a fugitive from Qadafi "justice" and can never return to Libya even to visit his family and friends without facing a grim sentence in prison.
Ironically, given the PNACkers' global ambitions, as an American draftee he could wind up fighting in Libya and shooting at his conscripted Libyan friends.
Either side will draft him over my dead body.
