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Title: Draft Resistance Five minutes, seven points. Every 18-year-old should know.
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draftresistance.org
URL Source: http://www.draftresistance.org/7reasons.php
Published: Apr 8, 2009
Author: Scott A Kohlhaas
Post Date: 2009-04-08 06:02:53 by Deasy
Keywords: None
Views: 523
Comments: 18
The most important reason why you should not register for the draft is because you own your body. You own your life. With the draft, the government says that they own your life and they will do whatever they want with your body for as long as they want when they decide the time is right. So don't register! Another reason you should not register for the draft is because registration brings us one step closer to conscription (the draft). When you register with Selective Service you are not registering to win a new car, nor registering to win a free vacation. You are giving Selective Service your vital statistics so they can prepare the coming draft. Selective Service sees your signature as your sign of approval. They hold up the number of registrants and say 'these people are in favor of the draft.' If you don't plan to let yourself be drafted, then don't register! Otherwise you are sending Selective Service the wrong message. So don't register! The draft has nothing to do with patriotism. The US has used conscription for fewer than 40 years of its 225+ year existence. The Selective Service System is an alien culture. It belongs to totalitarians. It is incompatible with a free society. This country is supposed to respect individual rights and freedom of choice. When it comes to war, we shouldn't fight unless we have to, but if we have to defend ourselves we should be fighting not for the soil or the cloth of the flag, but for great ideas like freedom and choice and free enterprise and all the freedoms (press, religion, speech, assembly) that we hold dear. If someone on our side decides not to fight (such as members of traditional peace churches who have always refused to participate in war) then we will fight twice as hard to defend their right to say 'no.' The minute we force people into military service, we lose what we are fighting for. So don't register! Basically, we're asking you to do nothing. Do not lift a finger to help the Selective Service System. If you want to ensure that this mass civil disobedience is successful, then you may want to take the next step and convince your friends not to register and toss Selective Service materials when you see them. Call the Selective Service toll-free number at 888-655-1825, and leave 'em hanging! Disrupt their system any way you can! But remember, non-registration is the strategy to beat the draft. If enough of us refuse, there is nothing they can do. So don't register! Over 3 million names have been referred by the Selective Service System to the Justice Department for possible prosecution for violation of the Military Selective Service Act (failure to register). 3 million. They have prosecuted 13 people since 1980. What are they going to do, build concentration camps? Your chances of being struck by lightning are better than your chances of being prosecuted for refusing to register. The 3 million men referred to the Justice Department are called 'hard core' resisters by Selective Service. They received 3 or 4 warning letters (bluffs) from the Selective Service and still blew them off. Millions more are in violation of the law for moving and not re-registering. This law has the highest rate of non-compliance since the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s. Many young men register in the belief that it is their only way to get their student aid for college, but that is a fallacy. The Fund for Education and Training (FEAT) will give you money for college if you refuse to register. So don't register! FEAT address: 1830 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington DC 20009-5732 202 483 2220 fax: 202 483-1246 | Additional Resource: Student Aid Fund for Non-Registrants The draft is not necessary to defend this country and never has been. Whenever this country was threatened, people rushed to its defense because it is the voluntary responsibility of everyone to participate in the defense of freedom. It only became necessary for the government to force people into the military when the government became involved in wars that a large number of Americans did not believe in, like Vietnam. We believe in the all-volunteer military. It should be supported because it is the only alternative to the draft. The government needs a draft to conduct a prolonged war of aggression because once the body bags start coming home, volunteers tend to dry up. The United States has an empire, and it is very expensive both in dollars and civil liberties. There is a direct link between Selective Service registration, the draft, and wars of aggression. If you don't want to see your generation sent off to fight a war of annihilation then don't register for the draft! Selective Service spends every hour of every day planning for the heinous crime of conscription. That is who they are. It is what they do. They are like the Terminator- they would draft your grandmother if the order came down. But in their plans lies a variable, the 'X' factor. The 'X' factor is called resistance. They don't know exactly how much resistance there will be to a reintroduction of conscription. They only have some idea of how much people will freak out. One way to gauge the 'X' factor is non-registration. When they see resistance levels higher than at anytime during the Vietnam War, they know they're in trouble if they actually try and live out their fantasy. So don't register! Statement of Purpose... This site is a crime against the Military Selective Service Act. It advocates. We are specifically encouraging resistance to the registration laws of the United States, seeing registration as the necessary step toward conscription (the draft). We are what the Selective Service calls 'anti-war intellectuals.' We see the direct link between registration, the draft, and aggressive war. Remember, non- registration is the strategy to beat the draft. If enough of us refuse, there is nothing they can do!
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#1. To: Deasy (#0)
Good one! Passing that one on.
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Thanks !
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
The most important reason why you should not register for the draft is because you own your body. This is some pretty terrible advice. They aren't drafting now and won't in the near future without WWIII. So in that case not signing up only hurts you (loss of student loan eligibility) with no real risk avoidance. And in the event of a big war, the military will find you anyway. I wouldn't worry about draft avoidance until there actually is a draft.
You sound to a statist. Don't listen to statists.
I refused to register in the mid-Seventies, part of a group of several hundred thousand young men born in a period of about a year who didn't actually have to register because of oversights in the law. Never regretted it. As their 'older brother', I admire those 3 million 'hard-core resisters' and commend their patriotism.
No I sound like a realist. There won't be a draft, and if there was not registering for it isn't going to make them less likely to find you. In fact the whole registering thing makes no sense in the first place. On my 18th birthday they sent card in the mail to my house. I had to fill out my birthday and address, which they clearly already had since they sent me a card near my birthday and to my home address. There is no downside to registering for the draft and plenty of downside if you fail to.
Wrong. Moving off the grid is always a plus. They only have meaningless threats, not any actual incentives to getting you to register with them. It's largely a domestic propaganda operation to begin with.
I registered for the Selective Service at my local post office the very first morning it started back in the early 1980's. You become ineligible for the draft at age 27, IIRC, unless the upper age limit has been extended.
_________________________________________________________________________ They can always pull out the Constitution and resort to the age of 45 if they have to. Then something in the Constitution would actually mean what it says plainly.
Not registering for the draft isn't moving off the grid, and registering makes them no more likely to find you. If you don't register for selective service you can't get student loans. That is a real incentive more many Americans. I agree with that. There is no reason for it, but it doesn't harm the individual registering.
Another statist lie. You can get such loans. Just go apply.
One could look at it as an incentive. One could also call it bribery.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
Nice post. Personally I don't know how they can sell their souls to the government for the lousy education and mind control indoctrination they will aquire. If it's a just cause they will have more than enough volunteers to fight.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
You can get such loans. Just go apply. I should say federal student loans.
The real war to protect America is right here, right now, at home on our own shores anyway.
Kinda like the existing taxing authorities and the IRS eh? Thanks for posting. They aren't getting mine.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON. It's over. Last one here turn out the lights.
And came with some benefits. War after war made it impossible for many Americans to see what was being done to them. Wars made it easy to accuse dissenters of treason, as well.
Agreed!! And that is a just and honorable cause.
"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms....The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
#2. To: Deasy (#0)
#3. To: Deasy (#0)
#4. To: Rhino369 (#3)
#5. To: Deasy (#0)
#6. To: Old Friend (#4)
You sound to a statist. Don't listen to statists.
#7. To: Rhino369 (#6)
There is no downside to registering for the draft and plenty of downside if you fail to.
#8. To: Deasy (#0)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#9. To: X-15 (#8)
#10. To: TooConservative (#7)
Wrong. Moving off the grid is always a plus. They only have meaningless threats, not any actual incentives to getting you to register with them.
It's largely a domestic propaganda operation to begin with.
#11. To: Rhino369 (#10)
If you don't register for selective service you can't get student loans.
#12. To: Rhino369 (#10)
That is a real incentive more many Americans.
#13. To: Deasy (#0)
#14. To: TooConservative (#11)
Another statist lie.
#15. To: phantom patriot (#13)
If it's a just cause they will have more than enough volunteers to fight.
#16. To: Deasy, redpanther (#0)
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You own your life. With the draft, the government says that they own your life
You think you own land, too, until you fail to pay the taxes on it.
well, we think we own our lives until we fail to pay the IRS or refuse to get our vehicles registered or insured or drive without a license and then we find out quickly that the State owns our lives and will take them away.
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#17. To: IndieTX (#16)
...and nobody came to the party because it was incremental.
#18. To: Deasy (#15)
The real war to protect America is right here, right now, at home on our own shores anyway.
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