[dcwusmc]

Obviously, Roscoe, you have never served in the armed forces if you can spew that bilge with a straight face. You sign a contract for minimally six years and if you try to leave early they can hunt you down and lock you up or (in war time) execute you for violating your labor contract. However, only our FedGov masters are allowed to keep slaves and/or indentured servants, right???

[Roscoe]

Selective Draft Law Cases, 245 U.S. 366 (1918). The Court's analysis, in full, of the Thirteenth Amendment issue raised by a compulsory military draft was the following: ''As we are unable to conceive upon what theory the exaction by government from the citizen of the performance of his supreme and noble duty of contributing to the defense of the rights and honor of the nation, as the result of a war declared by the great representative body of the people, can be said to be the imposition of involuntary servitude in violation of the prohibitions of the Thirteenth Amendment, we are constrained to the conclusion that the contention to that effect is refuted by its mere statement.''