Regiment Commander Brian Gonsalves hopes Supreme Court will be packed with uniformed soldiers when a controversial anti-conscription case begins next month.Lt Col Gonsalves and other senior officers will be called as witnesses by Government lawyers, and seek to counter arguments put forward by Bermudians Against the Draft (BAD.)BAD will be asking the court to rule Bermuda’s policy of mandatory military service unlawful, based on constitutional arguments.The campaigners have lost previous court cases based on human rights arguments, but are hoping their new tack will be successful. The case is slated to begin in the second week of February.On Wednesday, Lt Col Gonsalves sent a message to all Regiment commissioned and non-commissioned officers, giving them advance notice of the hearing and the times the court will be sitting.In the message, which was also pasted on the Regiment Facebook page, he wrote: “This hearing is open to the public which is likely to attract significant media attention. A few of us will be required to give evidence.“Please accept this e-mail as an open invitation to ‘pop by’ during the course of the trial in order to show support, wearing of uniforms are encouraged.”Lt Col Gonsalves added: “What the Regiment does and how we do it is being questioned and those providing evidence are charged with justifying that process, so your support is crucial.”However, his message attracted criticism from Larry Marshall, leader of the BAD campaign, which plans to call reluctant conscripts from the campaign group as witnesses.Another planned witness is Marilyn Steede, a former Sergeant Major who quit a full time post at the Regiment last April claiming she was demeaned, disrespected and made to feel “like a cockroach” at Warwick Camp.She is now a supporter of Bermudians Against the Draft.Mr Marshall said of Lt Col Gonsalves’ message: “I think this shows that he’s very concerned about the evidence that will be presented at trial. The Regiment will be calling him as a witness and we will have the right to cross-examine him.”He added: “It’s coming across as someone who’s desperate and is aware of the magnitude of this case.”Mr Marshall is calling on supporters of BAD to come and support the cause during the case too.“They want to fill the courtroom with green shirts but we want to fill the courtroom with black shirts with our BAD emblem,” he said.Invited to respond to Mr Marshall’s comments, Lt Col Gonsalves said he could not understand how his e-mail could be interpreted as desperation.“He must be reading a different e-mail,” he said.Meanwhile, four members of BAD continued on Thursday in their bid to win an injunction preventing them from being arrested by the Regimental police. They filed papers with the Supreme Court last week after Regimental police surrounded the home of one of the men.The Regiment said the men Shaki Easton and James Famous, both 27, and brothers Seth Ming, 24 and Tekle Ming, 28 had to report for Recruit Camp 2010 after failing to persuade a defence exemption tribunal to let them off serving because they are conscientious objectors.Government pledged at a hastily-convened preliminary hearing last week that the men would not be arrested until the injunction case has been dealt with. However, the case did not come to a conclusion on Thursday, and will resume on Monday.