View source for Document:LNC Resolution 30 August 1981 on Libertarian Draft Resistance

Resolved at the [[LNC Meeting 30 August 1981|August 30, 1981]] LNC Meeting:

WHEREAS: the draft is the ultimate form of government control; it enslaves
young people in the name of defending freedom; and

WHEREAS: the draft, by guaranteeing the manpower to fight unpopular wars
abroad, encourages dangerous foreign adventurism of the sort now
being practiced by the Reagan administration; and

WHEREAS: by the government's own admission, more than half a million
eligible men have refused to comply with the government's draft
registration program; and

WHEREAS: the Reagan administration is threatening to prosecute a small
number of such resisters; and

WHEREAS: at least one draft-age Libertarian, a delegate to the 1981
Libertarian Party Convention and an activist in the anti-draft
movement, has been singled out for prosecution by the
Selective Service System, that Libertarian being Paul Jacob; and

WHEREAS: his situation represents the fears of hundreds of thousands of
other young people under 22 years of age who must decide whether
or not to register for the draft;

BE IT RESOLVED:

1. That the Libertarian Party National Committee unconditionally
supports his right to resist, and will continue to support
his struggle against the state in whatever form it takes
consistent with libertarian values; and

2. That the Libertarian Party National Committee supports the
right of all draft eligible youth to resist registration
and the draft.

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[[Category: Resolutions from the 1980s]]
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