<OT> One more reason I am glad I don't live in CA

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:09:47 +0800
> Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
>
> > Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > > Sure.  And they should have made 2 years or more service mandatory for
> > > everyone, as soon as they complete HS (or drop out).
>
> Even peaceful Sweden has mandatory military service. For the objectors, time
> is spent serving in a hospital or other service. But two years it will be.

I've got no problems with mandatory public service.  Mandatory military
service is best left for police states such as North Korea.

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