people will be robbed of their money and liberty. If it is a war, and a war great enough to require a draft (involuntary servitude just to prove that you are State property,) they may be robbed of their lives, limbs, and/or sanity. Where did all of these problems come from in the first place? If you look closely enough, you will find a government policy that has created every problem that plagues this and every other nation. The War on Drugs created the drug wars. The intervention in the Middle East created blow back. Monetary policy and foolish lending standards created the housing boom and bust. The War on Poverty has created more poverty! What our not-so-wise overlords fail to understand is the Law of (Un)intended Consequences. A nation cannot terrorize another without the abused eventually striking back. People work by incentives and when incentives to do the wrong thing are put in place, don't be surprised when people do the wrong thing. Politicians expect their decrees to be followed as if they were the word of God, even though those same politicians ignore... the very words of God. It appears that the politicians, like so many of the people that put them on pedestals, also believe in the myth of the State. "If the world is round, can the king declare it to be flat? If it is flat, can the parliament pass a law that makes it round?" St. Thomas More To put the nature of the