Draft No, Assassins Yes

...This is the ticklish part of to represent us...

...captures our attention, like the stone-age wormholes and abrasions of age and use...

...When num- every advocate of this plan hastens to gospel, we shouldn't be ungrateful...

...fact that the draft does mean involuntary the state not own people, when it can My proposal is this...

...Wooden furniture is "distressed" with tention to the gross effect...

...the press, free assembly-all of these the intelligent left (the War Resisters Instead of spending millions on armathings involve risks, including the risk of League and other seasoned anti-statists) ments aimed at whole cities and entire failure...

...With one thing and Mercedes as the rest of us...

...We have debates advocating a draft, and, by a logical ex- panies.and the McDonald's chain, but over how many people are needed to protension, of advocating registration...

...they have as much Southern prisons...

...The thing the draft and all of our problems with SALT, registra- willing to put my own children there or to this proposal have in common is the as- tion, the draft and the expense of keeping be there myself, and I hope you won't be sumption that the state owns us...

...Of course not...

...It they don't have the monopoly power to vide conventional military cover, how does involve something which goes make their claim felt with penalties for many people will be needed to mop against the American grain and is forbid- refusing to comply...

...Nice, better than the old draft, have an alternative to suggest...

...things up under the nuclear umbrella, den by the Constitution...

...Fundamen- An alliance of liberals and conserva- how many under that shield will need to talism with regard to the Constitution is tives are pushing registration...

...But most of the another we have come a long way since going to put a nation of 200 million people with a claim on the world's conthe invention of the steam engine and the people on the road, and change models science are in crowds so dense it is all but spinning jenny...

...Freedom of religion, freedom of for a Libertarian Society) combine with people who start wars in the first place...

...the world to let everyone wear wool, and attention to the details...

...it's hard to know which comes first, moral failing of carmakers, but a ques- Amish who forgot to take their polio the moment, people cease to notice, or tion of economics...

...They still turn the really does seem to be limitless-then material goods, must be pursued with an radio on...

...Thousands, millions, get and therefore, in one of those "there- government...

...It is sim- ideas...

...It would cost much found offensive, something less than representatives...

...Nothing shows less sign of loving atten- Tassaday discovered a few years ago in The eye of the beholder is coarsened in tion to detail than a car...

...the modem state...

...it in the jargon of civics class, we are Not since the middle ages has it been JOHN GARVEY Commonweal: 426...

...The way of the modern nation-state is to get we need registration because so many of absolute equation of the state with soci- someone else out there to die, and if one the people who have volunteered for the ety is assumed in this argument...

...We could save a servitude...

...ing" and that Congress is therefore the Peace Corps...

...believed to "owe society" a couple of common for leaders to die in battle...

...either...

...cups-go unremarked, just like the faces of the chromed knobs of the past...

...By what legal fiction does They shouldn't...

...The ACLU is fundamen- the sensible understanding that an army make it through...

...This is not a the Philippines, or the Pennslyvania time...

...Something which longs for things done right, YOU HAVE HEARD, no doubt, that have a choice between military service for knowing the difference, for the par- "the voluntary army isn't work- and a civilian alternative, like Vista or ticular...

...unit infantry tactics, for example...

...We can't let people down, and it Can anyone seriously imagine any hope of a compromise they regard with isn't good to be negative all the time...

...Cheever knew it was no tobacco ingredients," books with glue the mass as well...

...leader accepting the proposal that he affection: you could choose non-military Unlike a lot of critics of the system, I might have to die because of his own bad service...

...THOMAS POWERS there isn't cotton fiber enough to print newspapers on rag paper, and plywood is quite extraordinarily strong, and Of several minds: John Garvey linoleum goes in quicker and cheaper than tile, and the alternative to masonite paneling is not oiled walnut, but plaster board...

...ple, economical, and it will help us out of her parents are on the block, I am not I don't think so...

...They share die to make sure that (pick one) Carter, as silly as any other form of fundamen- a measure of Peace Corps idealism and Brezhnev, Begin, Sadat, whoever, will talism, granted...

...The assumption has talist about press freedom and super- which doesn't want to be there is in some been that these people matter, thatr`they fundamentalist about church schools, but ways a healthier idea than one which are important to our survival, despite the switches to the higher criticism when gun does...

...Plastic car their weapons...

...The mind, like any other...

...those were subjects of size and with carpet tacked down onto plywood century...

...But there isn't any ambiguity about the only bad kind...

...The idea that we really need to the letter of the law, from the right...

...Misery is mass-produced, and seriousness which would appear in his subflooring, formica table tops, furniture the alleviation of misery-when it can be next novel...

...I think the sadness of use getting worked up over this...

...conscription is, one argument has evidence that they may be the greatest control enters, with its own strict claims it, less likely to lead to military adventur- threat to it...

...The tendency nents of registration, this time you could prophecies...

...So do insurance com- against crazy leaders...

...It is the same Occasionally a small group of people flecks of black paint to suggest the way with an automobile production line...

...Luke's what the planners are after...

...property, or have an obligation which person who will be aimed at just one Chaos usually means a situation which can be turned to any use by such many- other person or set of persons, and leave Spiro Agnew and the Kaiser would have fingered people as our strangely selected the rest of us out of it...

...A lot of people came to force them, under law, to do something lot of lives and loads of money if we did America, land of free people, to avoid they would not do without being forced...

...The size of the undertaking requires at- in a crowd...

...The gross effect is considering registration-not for a draft, sort forms the beginning of St...

...There aren't sheep enough in there isn't time or material enough to pay eye to the gross effect...

...It was not war, to the gross effect, which means radio Sahel, crowds in the slums of Brazil, racism and poverty, etc...

...So what if the car radio knobs are deal-and society's appetite for things tice and freedom, no less than the world's only silvered plastic...

...A cop- death doesn't do it (as one death never armed forces have been poor and black trary argument could be made for the does) millions will...

...Let's encourage which allows its citizens a choice in these for any military non-military use...

...The incidentals of lifewhich once seamed leather...

...It takes a fundamentalist to 3 August 1979: 425 like the idea of registration...

...every three years, and meet environmen- impossible to remember they are made One of John Cheever's early books tal requirements, and forgo Rhodesian up of individuals as particular as the trees was called Some People, Places and chrome, and earn 10 percent on equity, in a forest-crowds of unemployed in the Things Which are Not Going to Appear in and keep the price from going through central cities, crowds of refugees in Thai My Next Novel...

...Or to put up an army...

...But until Amy and right...

...The name of John goes hand in hand with inflation, since affection for the brass headlamps, Spinkelink we know...

...The particular perso* and "under-educated" (whatever that position that what we owe to society is a or groups of persons in charge of the state means in these slack days I don't know) resistance to the bad ideas of people in stays alive...

...The world is all crowds now...

...But is private ownership of people the wars in the first place last through them...

...Democracy finally might not to fight the idea that people are a kind of populations, give a decent salary to a work, might lead to (buzz word) chaos...

...Very likely we the easiest way to hide a rise in price is to spoked wheels and leather seats of a 1910 knew enough about him not to mourn his lower quality...

...It means houses crowds of dead left by the horrors of the attacked...

...Carmakers are not shots, or the men sitting on death roww in when they cease to care...

...But there was something in DRAFT N0, ASSASSINS YES Cheever, as there is in most of the rest of HOW TO SAVE LOTS OF LIVES & LOADS OF MONEY us, which rebels against the quick, the cheap, the easy and the ersatz...

...and government is every bit mashed to prove the glory and strength of fore" leaps for which modern liberalism as much a limited special-interest group the safest one in the bunch, or to push his is celebrated, we should have involun- as the AMA...

...etc., which he knobs of silvered plastic...

...The goal is firepower, a tables, chairs, lamps, shoes, coffee radio knobs are "silvered" to remind us blizzard of bullets in a general direction...

...if bers go beyond a certain size, it is only say, but just in case...

...But if they're passing, but its manner...

...Its agencies certainly claim point across, or to defend other people tary servitude...

...The The liberal defense of this idea is that years in government employment...

...Function begins reimposed, according to some propo- go to Jerusalem, think of all the blown to tyrannize over form...

...and if the draft is Mary and Joseph hadn't been forced to averages which matter...

...but rather the cheap glut of stapled together, cigars with "non- alleviated at all-must be engineered in the supermarket...

...Since registration of a But it's too late...

...It can certainly be argued I hope there is massive resistance to any and aimed instead at the people who that a society cannot afford the freedom suggestion that people should be drafted, make them necessary...

...tion do so partly because it offers the lems...

...When things are Each generation of manufactured prod- planners have armed everyone with au- pretty much alike, and serve their puructs imitates the quality of its predeces- tomatic weapons, and soldiers are trained pose well enough without being beautiful sor...

...Vinyl car seats have stamped not so much to aim-"marksmanship" or admirable in their own right, they tend "stitching" to remind us of the threads is an antiquated skill-but simply to fire to disappear...

...There he vented his the roof, then they've got to pay attention camps, crowds of the hungry in the spleen on the century...

...If we're all going to have a great to turn back, and know that health, jusmatter...

...nothing bindings, blazers with gilded plastic but- the age must be that we have come too far can be done about it, and it doesn't really tons...

...There is no arguing with the practi- our leaders is the unsubstantiated basis of Conservatives are selectively picky in the cality of this idea...

...each nation to go for crack assassination matters, but the same argument can be Resistance has already begun, and it is teams, small groups of skilled people applied to every single word of the Bill of good to see the intelligent right (Students who can get in there and clean out the Rights...

...less to have a handfull of serious profesantlike, not competitive enough with But people who consider this stance sional murderers in charge of killing off those Chinese who all dress alike, work too radical have a complaint: what is the the people who organize wars than it hard, and have no flies or prostitutes...

...The ones who make the other direction...

...away with nuclear weapons and armies, conscription...

...The solution, if we are all exempted from costs to maintain our cumbersome deliberals who support the idea of registra- having to serve, to our defense prob- fense systems...

...The process indifferent to quality...