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In article <3236956b.37768187@news.mv.net>, jack@threeindians.com wrote:

:timd@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (timd) wrote:
:
:>In article <323092C8.1CD4@cybernex.net>,
:>Kevin M. Agard <agardk@cybernex.net> wrote:
:>>timd wrote:
:>>> 
:>>> In article <50nonf$l08@hollywood.cinenet.net>,
:>>> Paul Blumstein <pbjb@cinenet.net> wrote:
:>>> >[...]
:>>> >An even better idea is to abolish the draft altogether. [...]
:>>> 
:>>> I think you are a little behind the times...
:>>> 
:>>> -t
:>>
:>>No, he is not. Although not currently active, the draft still exists, or
:>>at least the registration requirements do, that means in can be
:>>reinstituted in very short order. 
:>
:>That's not the same as actually being drafted.
:
:You are ignoring the penalties associated with not registering - no government
:jobs, no school loans, monetary penalty if you are caught, etc.
:
:Seems that the draft still has some teeth.
:
:Jack

I registered because of the penalties you mentioned and did not think twice
about since all I did was give the federal goverment my name. It is not
like they did not have it already anyway. As far as I can recall I did not
say anything about whether I would actually murder people if the state
requested me to. Registering is not the same as complying with an actual
draft. And frankly given that my social security information contains date
of birth information it would be trivial for the federal goverment to draft
me whether or not I registered for the draft.

     ....no government, so called, can reasonably be 
     trusted for a moment, or reasonably be supposed to have honest 
     purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon 
     voluntary support. 
 
             --Lysander Spooner, 
               No Treason: the Constitution of No Authority

-- 
Geordie Korper     geordie@chapman.com

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