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To: Freedom4US

It would be like WWI, when they had “Slacker Raids” to try to catch the draft dodgers.


41 posted on 05/26/2024 8:09:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I didn’t know about those. Interesting. I wondered about it generally, because in 1917 huge swaths of the US were pretty backwards, there was a Census and births recorded, but no national database of addresses and the rest of it. A whole lot or people could fly under the radar. “Social Security” ended that, I reckon. A lot of children died, too, when SS numbers were required for federal tax returns about 1980. Weird, that.

“You can’t yell Fire in a crowded theater” was the example used by a Supreme Court justice, in response to World War I anti-draft demonstrations.


44 posted on 05/26/2024 10:09:48 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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