Yeah. Slavery, just like mandatory public school. What part of mandatory compliance do you not understand???
Just because you assign your morals to the issue so that you can justify government interference in an individuals life, doesn't make it right, or good or any other moral term you frame your arguments in. If the state must resort to coercion and placing individuals under duress until the point of compliance... that isn't freedom of association, which by the way is guaranteed by the constitution. You know that pesky document that was supposed to limit the federal government to Bill of Rights enforcement, nothing else, as it states in the very text itself.
Mandatory servitude is slavery, regardless of what the law of man says. Natural rights, my friend, do not bend to the will of government, they always exist and are sometimes enforced by the more astute and adventurous among us. Why should a fat, rich old whiteman (a skinny blackman is fine too...) be able to send poor young boys and girls off to their deaths to defend the profits of oil companies, defense contractors and global corporate interests?
That is, in the end what this is about. National service for all able-bodied citizens, just as both puppets stated in the National Service Forum. They would gladly send you (or your sons and now daughters) to slave in the field or die halfway around the world for corporate America. Mandatory service is a slippery slope, regardless of your moral opinion.
Washington handles slippery slopes like Bob Dole skiing down the Matterhorn. To give them more is absurd.
As for me, if they start a draft, I will make [Something that can get me sent to Guantanamo]. You see, it is not that I don't want to fight, I just think we are fighting the wrong government.
