The Privacy Act Statement (required by law to be sent to anyone from whom a government agency is soliciting information) which accompanies the notification sent to young men regarding the registration for the draft, states that they are REQUIRED to provide their Social Security Account Number. Since there is no law which REQUIRES everyone to even have a Social Security Number, the registration is obviously another ruse created to cause the public to believe that the government has a right to the lives and services of young men, despite the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting involuntary servitude -- slavery.
Why would our government create this system if it is only a rule? So, it can "legally" draft volunteers into the military if someone should decide to embroil the nation in a war. Since Draft REGISTRATION is not really a law, the young men are tricked into "voluntarily registering," and since they have volunteered to register, they can be considered to have volunteered to be drafted when the government chooses.
If there is any doubt in your mind, and the Social Security Account Number REQUIREMENT does not convince you that it is a rule and not a law, look at the other warnings on the Privacy Act Statement: The information can be USED AGAINST YOU IN A COURT OF LAW for criminal prosecution -- that would violate your Constitutionally enumerated safeguards, under the Fifth Amendment, against self-incrimination; You have NO RIGHT to Privacy, according to the warning, since the information can be given to the General Public. Then you are told that failure to provide REQUIRED information MAY violate the Military Selective Service Act and MAY result in imprisonment and/or a fine. If it were a valid law, the word "may" would not be used. Obviously there is some discrimination in the application of the Act, so it must be a rule -- not a law!Some young men, in the past, have tried to fight this registration and have been convicted. Without looking into the individual cases, it is reasonable to assume that they "entered a plea of Not Guilty" when charged, and thereby gave the Courts jurisdiction to decide their fate. Instead, they should have just challenged the mandatory application of the ACT and refused to enter or allow any plea to be entered.
There seems to be reluctance on the part of the bureaucracy to try enforcing this Act except to let the future cannon-fodder know that they will not be able to qualify for government loans, government jobs or contracts. Student loans and other perks will not be available for them if they do not "voluntarily" register before they are 25 years old.
The REWARD procedure is the most acceptable one. The rule should and could be applied to everyone, male and female. Since involuntary conscription (the draft) violates the Constitutional provisions against slavery, paying or rewarding the people to register is an excellent and legal alternative. Citizens do not have a RIGHT to have the government guarantee their loans so they can go to school. Citizens do not have a RIGHT to have the government guarantee their mortgages when they buy a house. If they want these perks, then they should do something for them.
Even women could register for the draft as long as it was clear that a CALL-UP could include other services than military. We might find that we could eliminate some full-time Civil Service jobs if we were able to draft volunteers for a limited time to do that work.
This is not intended to counsel young men to refuse to register for the draft since that could be considered unlawful. The intent of this chapter is to give our young men and their parents the opportunity to determine the difference between a valid law which does not violate the Constitution and a rule which can be applied as law if you volunteer for it.
Voluntary registration with the Selective Service Board includes your agreement to abide by all of their rules and regulations. It is the same as joining the Army. That Master Sergeant has absolutely no authority over you until you "join up." At that point you become the voluntary property of the U.S. Army and most of your Unalienable Rights are temporarily set aside (you volunteered) in favor of the Military Rules and Regulations. To be legal, you only volunteer for a pre-determined period of time -- the term of your enlistment. If it was "forever," your agreement to surrender your Rights would be null and void. Since your Rights are UNALIENABLE, they cannot be surrendered or taken without end. You cannot sign contracts for such a vague period of time as "forever." Some might argue that the civil marriage license and subsequent vows, "til death," would also be too vague. Maybe those vows could be changed to be for 50 years. After that time they could be renewed.
