Word: sls
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Students for a Libertarian Society (SLS), the student wing of the Libertarian Party, will begin a nation-wide student anti-draft campaign in response to proposed congressional legislation to re-implement the draft...
...SLS believes "cooperation in society should be based on the voluntary actions of its citizens," Cosmides said. She added that the Libertarian Party is the third largest political party in the country with 20,000 officially registered members...
...SLS claims the United States' global military presence demands a larger military complex than is necessary, Cosmides said. "The real justification, for renewing the draft" is "the maintenance of a global empire," she added...
...volunteer army is perfectly capable of defending the United States," Alan Fruzzetti, a member of the Brown University chapter of SLS, said yesterday. "It is a defensive, peace-time army, a conscripted army is an invitation for military adventurism and a threat to world peace," he added...
Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy and Faculty adviser to SLS, said he opposes the draft because "it's a serious intervention on someone's rights to force him to spend two years doing something he would not choose to do," he said...