[jocon307]

“the word “zek.”

What’s this zek thing. Derbyshire used it too over at NRO in talking about this new “service” thing.

Could you be so kind as to explain?

[VR-21]

I learned the term in Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. It refers to political prisoners in the Soviet Unions labor camps, who were convicted of the Soviet Penal Code's notorious catch-all "Article 58."

[justkate]

I didn’t see a reply to your question so...

“zek” is what they used to call the inmantes of forced labor in the USSR. c.f. Alexander Solzenitzen

[Zeddicus]

so, considering this hypothetical, what are people going to do when the Fed establishes this mandatory conscription of our children as a precondition to their graduation? What if it’s coerced via taxation? What if they criminalize noncompliance?