International Man: How can people protect themselves from the danger of conscription and forced national service?
Doug Casey: There’s very little you can do other than renounce your citizenship and/or leave the country.
Or you can do what a lot of people did during the Vietnam War and simply say, “Hell no. I won’t go.” If you do that, however, you’ll be imprisoned. But perhaps that’s a better alternative than being forced to kill people you don’t even know. There’s no easy solution to the problem at this point. The situation is pretty far gone. Ultimately, we have to reform the character of the country because it’s going in the wrong direction very rapidly.
The US is now automatically registering all males between 18 and 26 into the Selective Service databank.