DraftResistance.org

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT
# Charley Reese at LewRockwell.com - Should Your Personal Life Be an Affair of State? - don't be fooled into sacrificing freedom for security, says Mr. Reese. You'll end up with neither. [smith2004]
As a true conservative with a strong libertarian streak, I fear government more than terrorists and criminals. Random acts by random individuals with no army and no air force can be dealt with much more easily than actions by a government backed up by military and police power. In recent years, federal law enforcement has expanded to the point where there is now an equivalent of five military divisions armed and invested with the power to make arrests.

# DraftResistance.org lists 7 reasons that you should not register with the Selective Slavery System: Life Ownership, Slippery Slope, It's Patriotic, It's Easy, You Don't Have To, Anti-Intervention, and The "X" Factor. Bravo! Remember gentlemen (ladies are not required to register, yet), failure to register may subject you to kidnapping by the fedgoons. If you choose to resist, and I hope you do, be prepared to defend yourself.

This site is a crime against the Military Selective Service Act. It advocates. We are specifically encouraging resistance to the registration laws of the United States, seeing registration as the necessary step toward conscription (the draft). We are what the Selective Service calls 'anti-war intellectuals.' We see the direct link between registration, the draft, and aggressive war. Remember, non- registration is the strategy to beat the draft. If enough of us refuse, there is nothing they can do!
-- Scott A Kohlhaas

# Perry de Havilland at Samizdata.net - The appropriate use of force - a post last Friday on the killing in England of a man who ran from the police. I posted yesterday morning: [samizdata]

I wasn't there, so I can't tell whether the shooting was justified. Judging from the stories I've read, though, the only justification I can see is a credible belief that the perp was wearing a bomb. "Suspected terrorist" doesn't cut it as a reason. We are all suspected terrorists now. The champion terrorists, of course, are the pilots of the airplanes dropping bombs on innocent Iraqis.
This drew some flack, so I responded with:
Beck: "Did you ever hear of the concrete non-explosive bomb-shapes GPS-guided to fall on things like SAM radars in crowded urban zones in order to just squash 'em without ruining everyone else's day?"

Actually, no. If that were the only kind of munition that were dropped in populated areas, thereby completely avoiding the murder of innocents, I would have fewer complaints. But the "shock and awe" I saw on the telly included considerable light and sound, which implies explosives to my mind. Dropping explosives on populated areas is guaranteed to kill lots of non-combatants, no matter how "precision guided" they happen to be. That's not OK with me.

I find it interesting to be branded as a "leftist" because I refuse to recognize war as valid human behavior. I'm as ancap as they come, folks. And ZAP libertarian to boot. War violates ZAP. Dropping bombs on cities is mass murder. It cannot be justified.

Add comment Edit post Add post