- A Draft After the 2000 Elections?
There may yet be a military draft in your future if you’ll be turning 20 in 2001, once the elections are out of the way. In late July of this year Newsday published a Los Angeles Times dispatch reporting that, “key members of Congress’ military committees, for the first time in a generation, are discussing revival of the draft.”
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/polner1.html
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Review It - Draft Not Needed for Protection of Liberty
When a federal agency admits that it could stand to cut a program, everyone should take notice. Especially when the program carries a $25 million price tag that could be better spent caring for our veterans. In 1994 a Department of Defense document was released saying that the time had come to end the inefficient Selective Service draft registration system. Article by Representative Ron Paul (R) of Texas
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst99/tst082399.htm
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Review It - Manifesto against Conscription and the Military System
It is our belief that conscript armies, with their large corps of professional officers, are a grave menace to peace. Conscription involves the degradation of human personality, and the destruction of liberty. Barrack life, military drill, blind obedience to commands, however unjust and foolish they may be, and deliberate training for slaughter undermine respect for the individual, for democracy and human life.
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/english.htm
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Review It - Neither Fair Nor Useful
we believe the State must not arbitrarily and systematically oblige its citizens to go into a service, armed or not, against their will. In the case of military service the italian law on conscience objection admits that Against conscription: It is unfair to force people to do this kind of "service" against their conscience; in the case of civil service we believe one must not violently enforce solidarity and "volunteering".
http://www.ngnu.org/english.htm
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Review It - No-Conscription Fellowship
When the First World War was declared two pacifists, Clifford Allen and Fenner Brockway, formed the this organisation, which encourages men to refuse war service. The group received support from public figures such as Bertrand Russell, Philip Snowden, Bruce Glasier, Robert Smillie, and Rev. John Clifford.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWncf.htm
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