What would happen if I tore up my draft card?

[ProudToBeLiberal]

my political career would probably be over? what I believe in versus practicality. lol

[JohnKleeb]

1. I dunno

If I had to I would hide draft resisters, btw around your age but cant get drafted, why I have a heart condition.

[redeye]

2. If caught, you'd go to jail

If not, then it'd be as if you'd never done that. But most elected offices in the US require that you have a clean record, so if you want to be elected to anything you shouldn't do that. But then again, the question is, what's so good about being eligible for elected offices when you're dead?

[JohnKleeb]

3. you know I think my dad had a friend who did that

[redeye]

4. What - tore up his draft card?

Anyway, my dad and his friends had a more creative way to dodge Vietnam, which they never implemented because the war ended when they were 17. The plan was to supposedly conspire to kill an eagle - practically the most harmless felony in the US - and then squeal on one another so that they'd be convicted felons and thus ineligible for the draft.

[JohnKleeb]

6. heh wise

[not systems]

9. kill an eagle

Dude that is just messed up.

I think the guy wiped peanut butter all over his ass
and inserted a plastic eyeball had more irons in the
fire than these clowns your talking about.

[redeye]

10. They weren't *really* going to kill an eagle

They just *conspired* to kill one. Hey, it's better than robbing a bank to go to jail...

[not systems]

12. ok got it

You mean talking about planning to kill an eagle is a felony.

Good.

[bluestateguy]

5. don't do that

Just smoke pot before your physical so you'll fail.

[JohnKleeb]

7. or say you are gay

;) or write fuck you on your fingers like another one of my dad's friends.

[redeye]

8. Or do the conspiracy-to-kill-an-eagle thing :)

It seems a lot easier than smoking pot, especially if you live in a place where you can't put your hands on any.

[not systems]

11. meditate

A guy I knew learned to meditate and control his
pulse and blood pressure.

He was able to fail the physical by making his
blood pressure messed up.

This was real.

Not this messed up eagle crap.

I hope no dumb a**s are reading you crazed idea
because might fall for your stupid story.

[Melsky]

13. just make out with some of the other guys

in the draft physical line.......

[JohnOneillsMemory]

14. In 1979 I was 18 when Carter reinstated SS registration

as a response to the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan. All our older brothers had been the Vietnam generation and my liberal friends and I angsted over how to respond to this militaristic crap. I decided to go ahead and register rather than hide out because I wanted to face the bastards and register as a CO (conscientious objector.) My attitude was "bring 'em on, mofo!" I planned to make the biggest stink possible if called to 'service' while my buddies didn't sign up to save their own butts. Hell, I woulda done jail time but not today with AIDS rampant in the prison population; that could be a death sentance right there. Whatever you do, don't get into uniform. That is leaving all hope for humanity behind.
Peace, bro.

[nomaco-10]

15. CAREFUL I'm pretty sure guys are getting freeped!

[Don_G]

16. Now?

Probably not much.

Hard to sacrifice your life for gas and motor oil.

[Fla_Democrat]

17. It would make it hard to

fill out your Fantasy Football team. :shrug:



http://www.sss.gov/FSdraftcd.htm

Is Selective Service issuing draft cards?

No. A card-style proof of registration is being issued, but it has nothing to do with the draft. No one has been drafted since 1973, and it would require an act of Congress to reinstate the draft.

Most Americans over the age of 30 remember the "draft card" which Selective Service issued to each man at the time he registered. For many years there were in fact two cards: the Registration Certificate and the Notice of Classification. When Selective Service began to store records on computer tapes in the early 1970s the two cards were combined into one computer-generated Status Card. At no time was the card officially titled "draft card," but it was by this colloquial name that the proof of registration was usually known.

Selective Service Regulations required each registrant to have his card in his possession at all times. This requirement was removed from the regulations in late 1974, shortly before registration was suspended, and it has not been reinstituted.


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I guess if you still have your card from 1974(or before), and made a public show of destroying it, then yes, a political opponent might use that against you in a future election.

[dofus]

18. What draft card?

There's no draft these days. Young men, upon turning 18, are currently required to register with the selective service, or some such. I recall my 20 year old son doing so, but I don't know if he has any kind of selective service i.d. I'll have to ask him when he wakes up later on.

[JVS]

19. It would be replaced as though you had lost it

no big deal

[TAH6988]

20. Nothing

Since we don't have a draft...