Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 30, 2008

This September, a group of political and corporate elitists will convene a two-day ?Service Nation Summit? in New York City.

The organizers support a proposal to re-instate conscription for all 18 year-olds as a condition of college admittance. Conscripts would be required to serve in either a military or domestic capacity as directed by the government.

Conscription of any kind is an unconstitutional form of involuntary servitude.

During the July 1863 Civil War draft riots, the New York Times defended conscription, insisting that the government is entitled ?to every dollar and every right arm in the country for its protection?.? We?re often told that governments exist to protect the people, but the moral premise of conscription is that the people exist to protect the government.

Nothing is more patently anti-American than the totalitarian assumption that we belong to the government that is supposed to be our servant.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.