Document:LNC Resolution 30 August 1981 Regarding Draft Resistance

Resolved at the August 30, 1981 LNC Meeting:

LIBERTARIAN DRAFT RESISTANCE: 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 of fight unpopular wars aboard, 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 draft's 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, 11) 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 its takes consistent with libertarian values ; and That the Libertarian Party National Committee supports the right of all draft eligible youth to resist registration and the draft. 	

Note: This was indexed in an official Resolution Index and identified as Resolution [blurred] therein.