Knowledge: conscription

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• society → issues → labor → slavery
• society → issues → warfare and conflict
• society → military

Links

European Campaign Against Conscription 
http://www.c3.hu/~farkashe/english/index.html

Struggling to end forced military drafts.

No-Conscription Fellowship 
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWncf.htm

An organisation active since the First World War which encourages men to refuse war service.

Manifesto against Conscription and the Military System 
http://home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/english.htm

States that conscript armies, with their large corps of professional officers, are a grave menace to peace.

Neither Fair Nor Useful 
http://www.ngnu.org/english.htm

Believes the State must not arbitrarily and systematically oblige its citizens to go into a service, armed or not, against their will.

Resisting Military Conscription through Taxation 
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dan_lundquist/

Some governments actually have the gall to tax you for failing to join the military, even in the US.

Draft Not Needed for Protection of Liberty 
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst99/tst082399.htm

Article by Representative Ron Paul (R) of Texas against selsective service registration.

A Draft After the 2000 Elections? 
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/polner1.html

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.

Dodged Draft 
http://civilliberty.about.com/newsissues/civilliberty/library/weekly/aa091399.htm

Last week's House vote to eliminate draft registration was a symbolic blow against a vestige of slavery.

Draft Registration: The Politics of Institutional Immortality 
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-214.html

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.

Draftresistance.org 
http://www.draftresistance.org/

A group attacking the policies of selective service registration in the USA.

Draft is Slavery 
http://www.draftisslavery.com/

Links to essays criticizing military conscription.

Campaign against Servitude 
http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6145

The Ayn Rand Institute's campaign against Bill Clinton's Philadelphia Summit promoting citizen service. ARI has labelled the summit 'Anti-American'

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