15 October 2004Politics
Rock The Vote, The RNC & The Draft
Take a look at this. It's a cease and desist letter to Rock the Vote from RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie trying to get them to stop discussing the possibility of draft with a threat to remove their status as a non-profit (as if he has the power to do that).
To defend his point, Gillespie qoutes members of the adminstration like, well, the president:
""We don't need the draft. Look, the all-volunteer force is working..."
What the hell else is he going to say? Gillespie goes on to write that claims that the draft could be instituted is tantamount to "malicious intent and a reckless disregard for the truth." I suppose that's one way to squelch healthy debate in America.
The oddest thing is that at the end of the letter Gillespie tries to make nice by saying that "the Republican National Committe shares the goal of your organization to encourage voter registration and "empower yonug people to change the world." I think what he meant to say was the RNC values younger voters so long as they take their political ques from Brittany Spears.
Posted by andrew at October 15, 2004 06:02 PM
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