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11 pages found in Conscription: Dodged Draft
Last week's House vote to eliminate draft registration was a symbolic blow against a vestige of slavery.
http://civilliberty.about.com/newsissues/civilliberty/library/weekly/aa091399.htm A Draft After the 2000 Elections?
There may yet be a military draft in the future if for those turning 20 in 2001, once the elections are out of the way. Documents key members of Congressional military committees, for the first time in a generation, are discussing revival of the draft.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/polner1.html Draft is Slavery
Links to essays criticizing military conscription.
http://www.draftisslavery.com/ Draft Not Needed for Protection of Liberty
Article by Representative Ron Paul (R) of Texas against selsective service registration.
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst99/tst082399.htm Draft Registration: The Politics of Institutional Immortality
Even the Department of Defense acknowledges that registration could be dropped with no effect on military mobilization requirements. Yet draft registration lives on, an example of the difficulty of terminating even the most useless government programs.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-214.html Draftresistance.org
A group attacking the policies of selective service registration in the USA.
http://www.draftresistance.org/ European Campaign Against Conscription
Struggling to end forced military drafts.
http://www.c3.hu/~farkashe/english/index.html Manifesto against Conscription and the Military System
States that conscript armies, with their large corps of professional officers, are a grave menace to peace.
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/english.htm Neither Fair Nor Useful
Believes the State must not arbitrarily and systematically oblige its citizens to go into a service, armed or not, against their will.
http://www.ngnu.org/english.htm No-Conscription Fellowship
An organisation active since the First World War which encourages men to refuse war service.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWncf.htm Resisting Military Conscription through Taxation
Some governments actually have the gall to tax you for failing to join the military, even in the US.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dan_lundquist/
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