Re: OT: Re: MOST (was Re: Zodiacal light linked to ancient Martian oceans)

From: OM (om_at_our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 23:09:33 -0500

On 3 Aug 2004 15:23:16 -0700, d_schneider@emulex.com (dave schneider)
wrote:

>Herb Schaltegger <herb.schaltegger@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>[...]
>>
>> If anyone doubts the importance of the issue of the military draft, do
>> yourself a favor and read up on the New York City draft riots of 1863 .
>
>Uhh, is this relevant? After all, in 1863, there *was* a war going
>on, and draftees were just about guaranteed to be cannon fodder.
>Also, the decision to secede had already been been made by this time.

...Very relevant. Most lower and middle-class Yankees went ballistic
over the draft, as the majority of them honestly had AbZero interest
in the War itself. _Uncle Tom's Cabin_ notwithstanding, most of them
cared jack *** about slavery or states' rights, or any of the other
causes of the War. Like a lot of people on the home front, the only
thing they really cared about in a war of this nature was that prices
were going up, goods were getting scarce, and people they knew were
dying not to defend their homes from foreign invaders but from fellow
Americans who just wanted to be left alone in the first place.

Do a little googling on this subject, Dave. The only other time we've
had this sort of reaction to drafting military forces was during
Vietnam...

                                OM 

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