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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/

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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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