Conscripting Americans to go to war will change things here at home.
It was the enchilada in the Vietnam protests.
Nobody knows the extent of protesting occuring today because the media does not cover much, and the part they do cover seems to have trouble reporting correct numbers.
On a national level, unlike the Vietnam area, there is not much effort nowadays to stand up and deliver a response to protesters being shuttled into rope-offs and cages, and generally handled with the same new m.o. as the New Cops handling crowd control situations like riots.
Things have changed in the protest arena.
The technological components alone give strong support to the controllers.
The rights of protestors now seem moot, to a point. The stragtegies and tactics of modern cops seem to reflect that they think anything necessary justifies protecting the Homeland and keeping it Secure, rather than conceiving it in the manner cops had to in the sixties--as legally permissable dissent.
It was responsible monitoring with strong legal help in the waiting, and a press willing, at least, to cover it when you could smell the fire, that kept the cops straight back then.
This broad band of sem-iorganized advocacy and support has evaporated.
And now, the draft.
The news talk shows and the pundits rarely mention protests, but I have heard them mention nervously that if the draft were to return, it would guarantee more and bigger protests.
The ones out there now, protesting out of principle, are the base of this political animal. And when suddenly everybody else nows feels threatened with being conscripted to fight the fight for the mega-corporations, you are going to see swelling upon swelling of the protesting ranks.
