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Articles and sites addressing the controversial issue of conscription, also known as the military draft.

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European Campaign Against Conscription Struggling to end forced military drafts. www.c3.hu/~farkashe/english/index.html

No-Conscription Fellowship An organisation active since the First World War which encourages men to refuse war service. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWncf.htm

Manifesto against Conscription and the Military System States that conscript armies, with their large corps of professional officers, are a grave menace to peace. home.snafu.de/mkgandhi/english.htm

Neither Fair Nor Useful Believes the State must not arbitrarily and systematically oblige its citizens to go into a service, armed or not, against their will. www.ngnu.org/english.htm

Resisting Military Conscription through Taxation Some governments actually have the gall to tax you for failing to join the military, even in the US. ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dan_lundquist

Draft Not Needed for Protection of Liberty Article by Representative Ron Paul (R) of Texas against selsective service registration. www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst99/tst082399.htm

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

Dodged Draft Last week's House vote to eliminate draft registration was a symbolic blow against a vestige of slavery. civilliberty.about.com/../../library/weekly/aa091399.htm

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. www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa%2D214.html

Draftresistance.org A group attacking the policies of selective service registration in the USA. www.draftresistance.org

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. www.nhgazette.com/../..

Draft is Slavery Links to essays criticizing military conscription. www.draftisslavery.com

Campaign against Servitude The Ayn Rand Institute's campaign against Bill Clinton's Philadelphia Summit promoting citizen service. ARI has labelled the summit 'Anti-American' www.aynrand.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6145