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To: Roscoe
Have you decided which of the facts in post 104 or post 107 you disagree with yet?

I'm tired of your evasive tactics of attack, attack, attack in an effort to draw attention away from the fact that you've never answered the initial question that was posed when you attacked my first post.

163 posted on 03/27/2002 11:35:50 AM PST by Equality 7-2521
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To: Equality 7-2521
Equating our military to a slaveholder and miltary service to slavery or even civil contract is tired and inane.

Selective Draft Law Cases, 245 U.S. 366 (1918). The Court's analysis, in full, of the Thirteenth Amendment issue raised by a compulsory military draft was the following: ''As we are unable to conceive upon what theory the exaction by government from the citizen of the performance of his supreme and noble duty of contributing to the defense of the rights and honor of the nation, as the result of a war declared by the great representative body of the people, can be said to be the imposition of involuntary servitude in violation of the prohibitions of the Thirteenth Amendment, we are constrained to the conclusion that the contention to that effect is refuted by its mere statement.''

Chattel slavery may be permissible in Somalia or a piece of Rand pulp fiction. It's illegal here in America.

165 posted on 03/27/2002 11:43:19 AM PST by Roscoe
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