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As the TOS are no longer applicable on this forum, I'll tell you a tale about a regime with compulsory service.
One moning at the entrance to this nation's international harbour, a most grizzly sight greeted every one. Dozens of naked bodies were washing up on the shore. They all had one thing in common - they had all been shot in the head.
They were also all political prisoners. Men and women.
This regime decided they want to eliminate these people, not free them. Most were innocent, but were in the wrong place at the wrong time. So to dispose of the bodies, instead of burying them (mass graves can be found) they flew them out over the sea in a transport plane and dumped them into the water.
What they did not count on was the tide bringing back the bodies.
So I have a real chip on my shoulder when it comes to compulsory service. Have a guaranteed mass force, and the powers that be begin to feel invincible and use these powers at will and with total disregard for life.
Didn't we learn anything from Vietnam? Our own Government didn't give two thoughts about us to send our boys in when they were given no choice.
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