In 1994 a Department of Defense document was released saying that the time had come to end the inefficient Selective Service draft registration system. 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. European Campaign Against Conscription - Struggling to end this inhumane form of oppression. Volunteering cannot be involuntary.
Conscription involves the degradation of human personality, and the destruction of liberty.
Neither Fair Nor Useful - we believe the State must not arbitrarily and systematically oblige its citizens to go into a service, armed or not, against their will. The group received support from public figures such as Bertrand Russell, Philip Snowden, Bruce Glasier, Robert Smillie, and Rev. John Clifford. Thoughts on Conscription - The draft also is a blatant attack on the Thirteenth Amendment, which prohibits involuntary servitude.