You Be the Media - AfD's Alternative Media Project

There are many opportunities and topics to write on if you want to highlight AfD's analysis of corporate rule and of human vs. corporate rights. Here's what John Reiger wrote in a Letter to the Editor published in The Sacramento Bee. If you have a letter to share with members, send it to Barbara Clancy at afd@thealliancefordemocracy.org

Draft Corporations! Why is the Selective Service testing the draft system if there are no plans to draft new soldiers? Does the Bush administration think we are really that gullible? But at least they are talking about closing the loopholes that allowed most of our current leaders to escape military service.

If we are going to bring back the draft, let us indeed draft everyone, including corporations. Corporations now claim many of the legal rights of citizens, and they should be subject to some of the same responsibilities. If the country is under attack (as the President claims) and citizen soldiers are being wounded and killed why should corporations sit safely aside making huge profits? Let's draft them, put the CEOs and managers in uniform and issue no-profit contracts for all the military gear we need. Maybe then we will find out if the threat is real, or just a scam to rack up huge corporate profits.