Patriot,
We had a big victory last week when the U.S. House of Representatives included language in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to restore the constitutional rights of American citizens to due process of law – by repealing the provision allowing for the indefinite detention of Americans without trial.
That’s the good news – and we will continue to demand this language be included in the Senate version and the final bill.
However, that doesn’t mean the NDAA is a perfectly good military authorization bill. It would be a shock if it didn’t contain problematic and even dangerous elements.
In fact, secretly tucked deep inside the 1,000+ page House bill is a provision that should shock every liberty-minded American:
“Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the
United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically
registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System.”
That’s right – the bill includes automatic registration for the military draft.
And the draft language in the Senate version would require women to register for the military draft!
This proposal comes at a time when politicians in the Swamp are rabid with war fever.
The war in Ukraine has gone disastrously, but they continue to escalate.
The risk of an all-out nuclear war has never been so great.
On top of that, they’re also beating the drums for war with China – the country with the largest economy, the largest population, and the largest industrial base in the world.
And as all of this is happening, military recruitment in our United States has cratered. There are multiple reasons for this, all of them ultimately caused by the Biden administration’s own policies.
Now, the warmongers want a bigger military, and since they can’t attract young people to enlist, they want to draft them and force them to serve.
The war machine should never have unfettered access to any American citizen, male OR female.
Tell your U.S. Senators right now: Oppose ANY expansion of the military draft in the NDAA.
Patriot, as Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul declared on the House floor, the military draft is slavery.
“Liberty cannot be preserved by tyranny. A free society must always resort to volunteers.
Tyrants think nothing of forcing men to fight and serve in wrongheaded wars. A true fight for survival and defense of America would elicit, I am sure,
the assistance of every able-bodied man and woman. This is not the case with wars of mischief far away from home, which we have experienced often in
the past century.
“A government that is willing to enslave some of its people can never be trusted to protect the liberties of its own citizens.”
“A government that is willing to enslave some of its people can never be trusted to protect the liberties of its own citizens.”
—Ron Paul
Before the U.S. House of Representatives, October 5, 2004
Before the U.S. House of Representatives, October 5, 2004
In that same speech, Dr. Paul also quoted Ronald Reagan, who remarked in 1979:
“…[conscription] rests on the assumption that your kids belong to the state. If we buy that assumption then
it is for the state — not for parents, the community, the religious institutions or teachers — to decide who shall have what values and
who shall do what work, when, where and how in our society. That assumption isn’t a new one. The Nazis thought it was a great
idea.”
These are strong words. But that’s what it means when the government forces young men and women to kill and die for their country.
Congress has tried to sneak draft expansions into the NDAA before. They know it’s overwhelmingly unpopular, which is why it’s always done so quietly.
And Campaign for Liberty has been loud about removing these changes to the draft and eventually getting them removed from the NDAA in past years.
That’s why it’s so critical we make our voices heard once again and let our U.S. Senators know we know what they’re doing, and we will not tolerate it. Contact your U.S. Senators NOW!
A whole generation of Americans might think the military draft is a relic of history and it can’t be brought back.
All of the machinery to reinstate the draft has been kept in place ever since the Vietnam era. And now they want to modernize it – for a reason.
In Ukraine, reports say military
“recruiters” roam the cities looking for able-bodied men, who are literally dragged screaming into vans and thrown into battle. This photo
was taken less than a week ago. That’s what governments resort to when they’re desperate for troops.
We think it can’t happen here . . . but most Americans didn’t think the recent Covid tyranny could happen here, either.
As the drums of war beat louder and louder, the calls to push young Americans into military service are going to get louder and louder.
You and I need to speak out RIGHT NOW and DEMAND all language expanding the military draft be STRIPPED OUT of the National Defense Authorization Act.
Click the link to contact your U.S. Senators and tell them to do so.
Take just one moment, right now, to make your voice heard!
Then, please forward this message to your fellow patriots.
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Taking on the statists in D.C. is never easy . . . or cheap.
But when Congress attempts to sneak these liberty-stealing schemes under the radar, a big public outcry is often enough to get them to back down.
We need to continue the fight, even in the heat of election season because the forces of tyranny will never just go away.
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For Liberty,
John McCardell
Executive Director
P.S. The statists in Washington want to drag you, your kids, and your grandkids off to war.
And they thought we wouldn’t notice when they slipped automatic draft registration into the National Defense Authorization Act.
Prove them wrong and send your directive to OPPOSE the military draft and instead RESTORE our constitutional rights in the NDAA!
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