[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:58:51AM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Dan Duncan <dand at pcisys.net>
> " 
> " On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:19:07AM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> " > He proposed a draft so that politicians (whose own kids
> " > would also be elligible for military service) would be far
> " > more cautious when waging war. It is always easier when
> " > somebody else's kids are doing the dying to go gun ho.
> 
> nit: -gung- ho, chinese for something like 'good luck' [gung hey fat
> choy ~= happy new year].  entered english in ww2.

iirc:

gung hoy fat [or fet] toy -- happy new year
la choy -- good luck

(depending, of course, on the transliteration currently in vogue)

If the 'gung hoy' part if the 'happy' part, the drift from there to
'gung ho' isn't a big surprise.


> i generally think plato's a crock, but one thing he got right is that
> lawmakers must not be able to exempt themselves from the laws they
> pass.

Abso-friggin-lutely.  Any time you allow the lawmaking class immunity
from the laws it passes, any time you allow "one law for them and
another for us", you're sowing the seeds of a new aristocracy.
Government should not EVER be allowed to be above the law, collectively
or individually.


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