The Draft
By Andy Carloff

To kill a man is one crime of itself. But to force a man to kill is an unspeakable atrocity. To force men by violence, to become violent, is a crime that extends to a higher damage, that falls to a lower low -- it is a thing of vice and brutality. It is more than the destruction of lives, the loss of loved ones. It is the disintegration of the heart, and the imprisonment of the soul. The Draft only forces men to be thoughtless brutes -- it turns individuals from lovers to warriors. This thing, this so-called necessary institution, has been a plague to all mankind as long as there have been men who despised death -- that is, to say, the Draft has been hated for all eternity.

The concept of the Draft is to force normal citizens into war. Without their consent, without their consideration, they are driven from their homes and thrown into what every war veteran confirms as hell. This is not done to them by the opposing army, nor is it done to them from any foreign nation. It is done to them by their very own leaders, the very people who are issued with the duty to govern their people. Yet their first act is to crush the souls of their people, make them into killers -- take from them their livelihood and give them dirt. A government's right to govern comes from the population. When the population is forced to do something that the majority of them disagree with, then the government is tyrannical, oppressive, and destructive. Such is the Draft. Individuals are lined up, packaged, and sent to foreign nations, where their blood will soil the ground.