{"id":57713,"date":"2016-02-24T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57713"},"modified":"2016-02-23T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:51:08","slug":"drafty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57713","title":{"rendered":"Drafty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There has been recent discussion about requiring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/08\/us\/politics\/draft-registration-for-women-would-stir-a-sleepy-government-agency.html?_r=1\">women to register for the draft<\/a>. \u00a0Failure to register carries threat of prosecution, but nobody has been prosecuted in decades. \u00a0Despite lack of enforcement, compliance is 99% in Idaho but only 34% in Washington, DC.\u00a0 We must address the factors causing voluntary non-compliance.\u00a0 If threat of prosecution carries no weight, how can we give young people a meaningful incentive to obey the law?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to end selective service registration. \u00a0It will never be used, the military doesn&#8217;t want it (ever), and it&#8217;s major\u00a0problem isn&#8217;t that we don&#8217;t draft women; the problem is that the draft puts the onus of defending the nation (especially in the enlisted ranks) entirely on those who don&#8217;t have the means to avoid the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Selective&#8221; service is an abomination to a free society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: There has been recent discussion about requiring women to register for the draft. \u00a0Failure to register carries threat of prosecution, but nobody has been prosecuted in decades. \u00a0Despite lack of enforcement, compliance is 99% in Idaho but only 34% in Washington, DC.\u00a0 We must address the factors causing voluntary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57716,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57713\/revisions\/57716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}