Correction:

"Of course, I don't oppose slavery and so I do not agree with Boudreaux on this issue."

Fixed that up for ya, David P. Graf. Be sure to tell your children that they are the property of a group of people by virtue of being born within the confines of an imaginary shape drawn on pieces of paper that refer to the globe, and as such are morally obligated to comply if those people wish to use them for the purposes of murder at the risk of their own lives. I'm sure they will have nice dreams afterwards.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/09/when-americas-c.html

Good thinking and I will go you one better.

"If you protect a man from folly, you will find you have raised a nation of fools". William Penn

Let us take the wisdom in that astatement and turn it into this: "If those who vote for war do not go to fight that war, then you will find voting for war an easy task."

or

"Those who make the laws must live by those laws."

It is my personal philosophy that our laws should make it mandatory for all congresscritters who vote to send our troops into combat, or those who do not actively vote to oppose it, be required to accompany those troops either as a company commander of combat troops or as a front line medic.

Demanding that others go where you will not just doesn't make for good law.

There is bad law, 99.9%.

There is good law, .01%

And, law that no one has ever understood, .09%.

Lysander Spooner, (lysanderspooner.org) one of the brightest legal minds this nation has ever produced makes the case that obeying bad law means that there is no incentive for the lawmakers to change the law. If the law is bad, only disobedience, mass disobedience especially, will get it changed. See also the effective tactics of Ghandi.

Disobedience is not the best way, it is the only way.

The draft is not the "law of the land". The fact that it exists is proof that it is not. It is simply a use of force in the interest of the political class.

Do I read our Dear Tenured Professor telling his 11 year old son "And if, when the time comes for you to perform this degrading tribal ritual, you decline to do so, you'll have both my admiration and my unconditional support”?

Is he actually telling his son to break the law instead of asking his son to help him change the law?

Where on earth does our Dear Tenured Professor believe the frontier goes between the law of the land and a “degrading tribal ritual”? In the need to respect a tenureship?

What on earth might he be teaching his students? Parents and students caveat!

Admit? Admit, sir? Nay, proud boaster I am!

Viva la prurient interest!

Good unceasing health maintenance in all that implies. And, maybe good genes.

That could be the answer, but I still have to wonder because when I renew my passport I am never asked about military service or selective service registration and it isn't my white hair that gives me the pass. I have never had the question asked.

Not when I have registered my car, renewed my driver's license, or done any of the things that make me brush up against government.

I only use my military retiree's ID when I infrequently wander into the PX at Ellington AFB, or as the 2nd ID when someone asks for 2 forms of ID. So, it isn't that I advertise that I am a military retiree.

To tell you the truth I have never heard of anyone having the complaints that Jeff expressed. Not calling him a liar, understand, just wondering what circles he is moving in. Government can be like that, black to me and white to Jeff and all for no discernible reason.

Double positions are always hard to respond to. Let me help myself …

… is it treasonous to endorse the immigration policy that reigned for the first 100 years of America's existence as an independent nation?"

No.

It's more like being human than being treasonous.

As long as you understand that all immigrants are not looking for independence — or freedom. Which was recognized in that policy.

Vidyohs:
Didn't you admit you're 67 years old on another thread? What's in the water down there? I want some!!!

I can show you the data about the productivity gains made by foreign labor. All you can do is point and shout and go "They took our jobs!" which is absurd on its face because it assumes that American citizens have an inherent right to their job. And then you couch it in terms of a.) Race and b.) "invasion".

I had to register for student loans, but you know what, if they call me up, I'm heading to Mexico. No government has a claim to my life, hell they take enough of my life from me as it is.

I'm assuming that you enlisted while there was still an active draft and that Jeff signed up after the draft was suspended.

Exactly, scottynyx, that is why I say government is the problem.

Everyone is all excited about the wrong problem, and that is no accident.

Great system.

Oh, is that all we have to do? I'm sure the welfare state will be eliminated any day now, right after hell freezes over.

Some really sad, insufficient, ignorant, and irrational thingking went into that post. Immigration is not your problem, Your a loon, government is. Stop all the left wing government give away of goodies and you cut down on immigration immediately, and what immigration that did continue would be beneficial not a drain.
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Keith,

"I think there is an unquantified drive in humans to be a part of something bigger than just the individual. Posted by: Keith | Sep 7, 2008 5:02:24 PM"

Some people, Keith, some people, but not all by any means. Being a part of something bigger is unsatisfying when you learn it isn't better.
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"The draft is unconstitutional. Try telling that to the treasonous politicians in Washington though."
"Posted by: happyjuggler0 | Sep 7, 2008 6:09:57 PM"

Actually, happyjuggler0, Milton Freidman did just that during the Nixon administration and convinced them that the draft was unconstitutional and that was when it was canceled. Why they still have a Selective Service Reg. is proof that nothing is ever dismantled unless it is directly tackled. With no draft there is no need for a Selective Service Registration.
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"The fact that Don obviously feels comfortable sacrificing others, but not his own, smacks terribly of hypocrisy."
Posted by: nunya | Sep 7, 2008 6:24:17 PM"

Nunya, this is plain silly, however it is the heart of your post. Find one quote from Don that supports your silly accusation. I have seen time after time Don express a consistent position, that being that he doesn't want to sacrifice your son or his son on the alter of a politicians whim.
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"The statesmen may call it "murder" or anything else they like. I couldn't care less.
Posted by: Martin Brock | Sep 7, 2008 6:31:01 PM"

For once we agree Martin, without reservation. I am military retired and my 21 years taught me enough to advise my 3 children that if the draft came looking for them I'd help them and support them in Canada before I'd see them place themselves under the arbitrary authority of the kinds of shitheads I most frequently served under and with.
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"Still, it's been a pain in the ass, and always will be. There's been serious talk about revoking passports and other stuff. What a pain that will be for me.
Posted by: Jeff | Sep 7, 2008 8:24:21 PM"

21 years in the Navy, retired, never registered for Selective Service, and never have had a single moments of hardship or controversy in any manner because of that lack. You must be born under an unlucky star.
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"Don advocates erasing our borders and those who wish to defend them are called racist by people like Jon.
Posted by: Your a Loon | Sep 7, 2008 9:04:36 PM"

Me, I just call you a blind fool who has never spent a moment really digging deep into the facts and truth about the value of immigration. The boogie man gotcha running scared.
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Government is our problem, not immigration, not the draft, not selective service, no drugs, not guns, not oil, not traffic, not infrastructure, not the babe next door who wears the itty bitty bikini…..okay maybe she is a problem.

The only difference, then, is that you seem to favor racially differentiated criterion for admission into this country. Now…that sounds like racism to me. What would you call it?