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      <title>Mr Ted Thomas [Signature #28]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4174713?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ted Thomas, Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom<p>Forcing children to stay on a few years will not that much difference. This largely is a cynical means of trying to curb unemployment. The structure of education needs to be changed internally. Just extending the amount of time children have to stay in compulsory education will just mean more of the same. This will not change a thing.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:08:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr peter horne [Signature #27]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2584910?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[mr peter horne, saltburn by the sea, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:29:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Francis Sedgemore [Signature #26]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2566293?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Dr Francis Sedgemore, London, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:45:08 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Scott Kohlhaas [Signature #25]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2219589?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Scott Kohlhaas, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America<p>Where will all this compulsory service end?</p>

<p>Would you be willing to spread the word about www.draftresistance.org?  It&#039;s a site dedicated to shattering the myths surrounding the selective slavery system and building mass civil disobedience to stop the draft before it starts.</p>

<p>Our banner on a website, printing and posting the anti-draft flyer or just telling friends would help.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Scott Kohlhaas</p>

<p>PS.  When it comes to conscription, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:15:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Nathan James [Signature #24]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Nathan James, Consett, Durham, United Kingdom<p>What is the point of this scheme? In practice, what will end up happening is that colleges will end up with more people in them who don;t want to be there, in other words an extension of the final two years of school.</p>

<p>This would cause grave damage to the academic standards at colleges, and is opposed by the main college lecturers union.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2007 07:43:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Tim Read [Signature #23]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Tim Read, Woking, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 11:09:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dame Fanny Flaps [Signature #22]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dame Fanny Flaps, Bumford, Anguilla]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 08:53:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Andrew Hunt [Signature #21]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/1677838?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr Andrew Hunt, Wisbech, Cambs, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 03:20:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr steve yeardley [Signature #20]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr steve yeardley, middlesbrough, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:19:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #19]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Kinross, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 11:42:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Patricia Dunn [Signature #18]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Patricia Dunn, Oxford, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:02:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr David Wildgoose [Signature #17]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr David Wildgoose, Sheffield, ENGLAND, United Kingdom<p>I didn&#039;t enjoy education until I started my A-Levels at 16 when all the disruptive and unruly pupils were finally absent.  I hope my 3 children will do A-Levels, but only amongst those who actually wish to be learning.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:48:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Paul Hayman [Signature #16]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Paul Hayman, Cardiff, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2007 03:38:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Paul Lewis [Signature #15]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Paul Lewis, Edinburgh, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2007 03:02:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Nick Cowen [Signature #14]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nick Cowen, London, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:18:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Peter Risdon [Signature #13]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Peter Risdon, Cambridge, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2007 07:48:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Ian Grey [Signature #12]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ian Grey, Morley, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2007 05:49:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>James Hammerton [Signature #11]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[James Hammerton, Glasgow, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2007 03:54:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Mark McCubbin [Signature #10]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Mark McCubbin, Aylesham, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:59:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Eur Ing Matthew Pemble [Signature #9]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Eur Ing Matthew Pemble, Falkirk, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 7 Apr 2007 01:51:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs carol scott [Signature #8]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs carol scott, Huntingdon, Cambs., United Kingdom<p>If this went ahead some would be turning up with their own children!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2007 06:18:57 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Christopher Hawes [Signature #7]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Christopher Hawes, Watford, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2007 05:29:09 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Tim Daw [Signature #6]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tim Daw, Devizes, Wilts, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2007 05:16:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr. Chris Underhill [Signature #5]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr. Chris Underhill, London, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2007 04:18:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Ian Hunter [Signature #4]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Ian Hunter, Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2007 11:05:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Steven Shone [Signature #3]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Steven Shone, Moscow (UK Expatriate), Russia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2007 10:11:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Christine Fulcher [Signature #2]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Christine Fulcher, Oxford, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2007 05:52:02 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Fabian Tassano [Signature #1]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Fabian Tassano, Oxford, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2007 11:19:33 UTC</pubDate>
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