| 2. | 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.
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| 3. | 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.
home.snafu.de |
| 6. | 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
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| 7. | A Draft After the 2000 Elections? | | | There may yet be a military draft in your future if youll 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.
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| 8. | 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.
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| 9. | The Chickenhawk Database | | | Detailing the means by which various right-wing politicians and personalities avoided military service in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, with reasons ranging from Tom Delay's educational deferment to Ken Starr's psoriasis to Rush Limbaugh's anal cysts.
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