--- Ken Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I.7 Conscription All schemes for automatic > registration through > government invasions of the privacy of school, motor > vehicle or other > records should be immediately eliminated. The > still-functioning > elements of the Selective Service System should be > abolished and all > associated records should be destroyed. The > President should > immediately pardon, providing unconditional > exoneration, for all who > have been accused or convicted of draft evasion, > desertion from the > military in cases of conscription or fraud and other > acts of civil > resistance. Disagree. Defense is one of the prime > responsibilities of > the national government as enumerated in the > Constitutiion. As > distasteful as the draft is, and I was drafted, the > tradition of the > citizen-soldier is far preferable to the system of > the mercenary soldier > which we presently have.
This goes back to the concept of self ownership. You own you. NOT the government. To have any system of conscription is contrary to this and further is an initiation of force. A draft is immoral and unethical and just plain wrong. It is slavery. BWS ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html
