The Draft Is And Always Will Be Slavery

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Anthony Gregory

Obama says some Americans are paranoid, fretting about an imagined tyranny lurking behind the corner. Progressives cheer as he mocks his lowly subjects. Yet some among them embrace one of the most despotic state powers imaginable: the draft.

The draft is military slavery. It cannot be justified on any basis. Ever. It is wrong in and of itself, just like aggressive war. It is true that the Vietnam war did end partly because of the draft—but only after the draft had allowed for a much larger war in the first place, entailing the death of millions of Southeast Asians and tens of thousands of Americans.

The Draft Is And Always Will Be Slavery

Progressives always seek to cure evils caused by the state by running to the state and asking it to resemble fascism even more than it already does. If you hate war, hate the state. If you can’t bring yourself to turn against modern corporate liberal imperialism, then just back off. If you vote for people like Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama, who promise more war and deliver more war, a program 100% consistent with their agenda at home, then you have no business forcing millions of Americans to die and commit murder on behalf of your beloved government in some twisted, too-clever-by-half scheme to stem the predicable evils that are not peripheral but intrinsic to the type of government you favor. You want a government that manages the economy, takes care of us all, stands up to every real and perceived evil of social power? Then you get mass murder. You don’t get to relieve your guilt by forcing young Americans, under threat of imprisonment, into the horrors of war that inexorably follow from your own agenda. Slash and smash the state. It is the problem. Giving it the power of military enslavement is not just self-defeating; it makes you a party to atrocity on a mass scale.

Now, short of abolishing the state or military, we could conceive of a reform that at least moves things toward freedom. Despite the pro-draft propaganda, we don’t have an “all-volunteer” military. People in any other sector have a right to quit their jobs at will. They might be in violation of contract to do so, but they are not thrown in cages for quitting.

The military is the only institution, or at least the major one, that still utilizes indentured servitude. This is inconsistent with freedom and human rights. Soldiers should be free to quit. If they were, these wars would be much harder to sustain. During the Iraq war, many soldiers are marines were forced to return to combat two, three, or six times under Stop Loss Orders. They should have been free simply to say, “No.”

If you want to stop wars by tweaking with military personnel policies, establishing a truly volunteer military, where people can quit at will, would be the single best reform. It would also reduce the many problems of military recruitment, which uses dishonest and shady methods to ensnare young Americans into the Armed Forces. There would still be a lot of awfulness, including the military’s tendency to draw on the poor who have few other options, but there is simply no way to make the intrinsically hierarchical and regressive military into an egalitarian institution. A draft too will always hit the poor much harder than the politically connected.

Calling for military conscription to stop wars is wrongheaded in many ways. More important, the draft is a form of slavery, and simply evil from top to bottom. If you want to reform the system and strike a blow against perpetual war, fight for the right of soldiers to quit their jobs at will. It is consistent with human rights and peace, and shrinks the power of the military state rather than doing the opposite. If your true interest is in ratcheting back imperialism and discouraging particularly disastrous wars, rather than in glorifying the state, work for greater recognition of the dignity and liberty of those who find themselves stuck in the Armed Forces, not less.

This article first appeared at the Center for a Stateless Society.

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2 Responses

  1. 5 War Veteran says:

    Having been drafted I quite agree. I was not given the chance to work my way through college. Instead I was shafted into the military. I did not get my degree until 20 years later.
    I stayed in the service for the retirement and became disabled in the end. Great retirement. It is not just an adventure it is a job.
    It would not bother me so much but the Viet Nam war was based on a political lie called the Gulf of Tonkin event which never happened. Same concept as Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq which were never found. I do not consider old out dated lost chemical weapons corroding underground and incapable of use as having any value nor woulda coulda shoulda reasoning as a political excuse for WMDs. Remember we were also told he had nukes which was a lie.

    The fact is that all wars, including WWII were started by the elite for profit and power, Not one soldier has benefited from war. Do not believe those “movie’s” that show common soldiers getting wealthy off of “booty” taken as spoils of war. That rarely ever happened.

    Instead the Elite raped the people of their wealth their lands and their livelihoods.

  2. Michael J. Marsalek says:

    Interesting article … Although military service is a form of indentured servitude, it is necessary for national defense. The root of the problem is that we Americans permit the federal government to commit the military to conflicts & combat that are not in the national defense and/or an inappropriate response to some attack or hostility that could have easily been prevented. We know that the adventures in Vietnam and Iraq were unnecessary, unjustified and, to a certain extent, illegal. We know that the 9-11-01 attack could have more easily been prevented than develope into the overwhelming success that it was. To educate a slave makes the slave discontent with slavery and this applies to military service as well. Service personnel have the right to disobey illegal orders. It is the responsibility and duty of all Americans not to allow our government to commit our military to unjust, unnecessary and/or illegal military conflicts. The best and least expensive defense is not to provoke attacks which is not in the best interest of the military industrial complex. Americans must demand the truth from government in order to make informed decisions. For example: while Governor of Texas, George W. Bush said during an interview that if he were ever elected president, he would invade Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein. George W. Bush later on swore that he had secret but ” irrefutable ” evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and intended to use them against the U.S. and our allies. Still later while the Iraq adventure was still ongoing, George W. Bush promised that there would be plenty of time later on to discuss the necessity & justification for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Later on has come and gone while too many of America’s service men and women are dead, dismembered and/or disabled. Now Americans watch silently as Mr. Obama sets the entire Middle East on fire while he refuses to protect the Americans he places in harm’s way. Serious consequences are a necessary part of government accountability which is impossible without the general public being well informed by a free & independent press.

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