Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, & parents from their children, & compel them to fight the battles of any war, in which the folly or the wickedness of Government may engage it? Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous & baleful aspect, to trample down & destroy the dearest rights of personal liberty? --Daniel Webster
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Speech_Against_Conscription
The fact that we have gotten away with being wrong before does not excuse deliberately being wrong in the future.
they don't want a draft per se so much as they want a materially weakened US military.
ReplyDeleteonce you understand the goal, the methods make more sense.
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