HUH???
What in the world would that have to do with anything? She's not refusing to go to war, you know.
How about she just "claims" the US Constitution.
As usual -- you don't understand your own thread.. She attempted to MODIFY her citizenship application by stipulating she be RECOGNIZED as a conscientious objector. That means roughly --- she will not serve.
Now -- she needs to prove it. This isn't about "denying citizenship". This is a challenge to back up her C.O. status assertion.. As soon as that is resolved, we can get back to reconsidering her MODIFIED application..
Can ATHEISTS be C.Objectors?? Seems like it. But then again the incompetence of the BIG BUREAUCRACY YOU WORSHIP, might have to actually spent 12 man-years reading regs and court decisions..
YOU LIKE Big Bloated Govt?? Then don't act so shocked and irate when this shit happens..
R U that dense?
No they can't when it comes to the oath. Atheists don't have any scripture or dogma to point to that commands them to not kill or not do anything for that matter. Personal convictions do not weigh much compared to being brain washed by a cult like the Christians or Mormans. Truth is under the right set of circumstances anyone will kill without giving it a moments thought. I don't care who she is or who a guy might be.. If she enters her home and discovers a rapist molesting her daughter or young son and she grabs a butcher knife in the kitchen upon hearing the screams of her child ...she will stab the rapist until he stops moving.
Whether a citizen will volunteer to kill on the order of a military superior who gets sent somewhere on the planet on the order of a politician is another matter. I'm sure that there are a lot more psychopathes that just like to kill and harm others in the military than those that join and discover they cannot kill because upon seeing the reality of the act they reject it not out of fear but out of an inner compass that cannot be ignored.
A lot of innocent men women and children get killed whenever our troops get sent anywhere "to defend our freedom".
I am so totally offended by that phrase. The last time our freedom was actually on the line was in WWII. Every war since then has been a war of choice and the only thing on the block was some companies agreement about an economic resource or a trumped up threat like terrorism which clearly takes excellent intel and Navy Seal teams and drones to eliminate the individuals involved. We did not need to destroy Iraq to kill Saddam. We did not need to engage in over ten years of war in Afgahnistan to get our pound of flesh from Al Quida.
The truth of the matter is that 9/11 would not have happened if our own agencies that are charged with our safety had not bungled and dropped the ball ...all the way to the president that didn't have the curiosity to follow up on a known threat that had a recent history of violent, deadly attacks on our military and civilian assets thruout the ME and Africa. Few Americans have the balls to look at the facts of 9/11 and admit we knew that some sand ******* were being all hopped up by a guy we knew very well because he worked for us when the Russians were run out of Afgahnistan. 9/11 happened because of the hubris of George Bush and the incompetance of the FBI the NSA and the CIA. 9/11 happened because a couple of flight instructors were asked to teach some Mid East guys with no commercial aviation experience or prospects of ever needing to know how a Boeing passenger jet liner is flown even if only in a simulator but the most important part of flight training save weather is how to land the goddamned airplane. And these individuals told the instructors they were not interested in landing training. Flight instructors are supposed to be smart. They are suppposed to reject bad judgement observed in any student pilot. I know, I am a liscenced pilot. It makes my eyes pop right out of my head and make my skull want to explode when I think of all the flight instructors I have known and the ones that trained the terrorists didn't march right down to the local FBI and FAA offices and scream bloody murder until someone in authority acted. A classic case of unregulated buisness run amuck ... We will train our own assassins for a few bucks because we don't like to discourage any business opportunity. We are fools.
Our own stpidity and hubris allowed 9/11 to happen. That is only responsible way to look at it.
LikeI said earlier. We don't need the dumb ***** in our country. We already have enough morons amongst us.