This article is about the draft and the borders. They're keeping track of draft dodgers BEFORE they are drafted? To keep us in? Is this not big brother policy scary to all of us?
The following is from
http://www.vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/105146.phpCongress brought twin bills, S. 89 and H.R. 163 forward this year,
> entitled the Universal National Service Act of 2003, "To provide for
> the common defense by requiring that all young persons
in
> the United States, including women, perform a period of military
> service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national
> defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." These active
> bills currently sit in the Committee on Armed Services.
>
> Dodging the draft will be more difficult than those from the Vietnam
> era remember. College and Canada will not be options. In December
> 2001, Canada and the US signed a "Smart Border Declaration," which
> could be used to keep would-be draft dodgers in. Signed by Canada's
> Minister of Foreign Affairs, John Manley, and US Homeland Security
> Director, Gov. Tom Ridge, the declaration involves a 30-point plan
> which implements, among other things, a "pre-clearance agreement" of
> people entering and departing each country. Reforms aimed at making
> the draft more equitable along gender and class lines also eliminates
> higher education as a shelter. Underclassmen would only be able to
> postpone service until the end of their cur-rent semester. Seniors
> would have until the end of the academic year.