The Slave Registry
February 2, 2016
There is no draft in the U.S. at the moment, but young men must still register for the draft upon reaching age 18. Walter Williams compares this to a hypothetical law shortly after the Civil War requiring all black people to “register” with the government. As Walter once explained, the proponents of this law would have said: “We don’t plan on bringing slavery back at the moment, but we’d like you to register anyway just in case.”
How predictable was it that the U.S. government’s top military generals would call for the registration of women for the draft once the decision was made last year to put women in combat?
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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