<p>If you’re turning 18 before the next election this fall, you can right now.</p>
<p>Also, if you’re male, don’t forget to register for selective service as soon as you turn 18.</p>
<p>In alot of states as soon as you get your drivers license, you are automatically registered to vote.</p>
<p>what happens if you give the big ****off to the SS?</p>
<p>Technically you are subject to jail time but that rarely happens. You won’t run into many obstacles unless you want to apply for fin aid in college, or ever want to buy a house or get a car loan.</p>
<p>You face jail time and a $250,000 fine.</p>
<p>You can’t get federal financial aid, work benefits, housing stuff, etc.</p>
<p>It is very unlikely a draft would be re-insteaded (HR 163 failed 402-2 last October) so it’s just stupid not to register.</p>
<p>but if there WAS a draft, you would be required to go… doesnt sound very much like “freedom”. if they were so confident they wont be reinstating the draft, they should just temporarily suspend the SS program, $30 million a year waste.</p>
<p>Ahh… selective service. You have a probability of getting drafted till 25. 7 years of fear will be waiting for you… Even people tell me getting drafted is ridiculous, it’s still scary.</p>
<p>It really is the cheapest way to prepare for the worst possibly scenario, as Bill Clinton put it back in 1996 I believe.</p>
<p>Like I said, the last reinstate the draft bill failed 402-2 in the House in October '04 so unless we go to war with China or something, it’s not happening.</p>
<p>I don’t get it–what’s selective service??</p>
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<p>[Explanation</a> can be found here](<a href=“http://www.google.com%5DExplanation”>www.google.com)</p>
<p>I think a better link would be sss.gov, which is the selective service website.</p>
<p>which could save about 1 extra second from your life…if you really wanted it</p>
<p>Anyhoo, heres a basic rundown. The selective service is a process thats been around for years and is intended as a last-resort option for a major international emergency (think WWII scale). If the Big One ever occurs, an emergency draft can be called up and people are picked through a lottery system via the selective service database. All 18 year old males are supposed to register within 30 days of their 18th birthday or else they are theoretically violating federal law and can be sentenced up to 5 years in prison.</p>
<p>Technically however, many people are automatically registered when you do these such as apply for drivers licenses, fill out the FAFSA, etc etc etc…</p>
<p>Btw, you technically also have to be registered in teh Selective Service database to benefit from government aid, such as federal jobs, loans, etc etc etc</p>
<p>It’s not THAT big of a deal to not register. I considered not registering, but I weighed the pros and cons and decided to go ahead and do so.
By the way, if any of you are going to register simply because of threatened jail time and fines, don’t worry. I’ve read that there are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of unregistered males, and only a small handful have ever had charges brought against them for it.</p>
<p>I would not really worry about the draft much at this point. Honestly not registering is going to come back a huant you later on in life! The only thing that I believe could make a draft possible is Korea. Honestly I know everybody is so worried about the car bombings in Iraq, but I’m much more worried about what would happen if we engaged Korea for a second war.</p>
<p>I’m not as worried about us as I am for the South Koreans and Japanese.
It wouldn’t take much provoking to make a lunatic to push a button…</p>
<p>And of course, Iran is next on the agenda. Bush just can’t learn his lesson. We’ve got two rogue nations. One is actually cooperating with the Europeans with establishing peace. One has stalled negotiations for years, and now has suspended them completely AND has admitted to having nuclear weapons. Which is the bigger threat? Ah, yes. The one with the oil.</p>
<p>Not the oil thing again.</p>
<p>Oil isn’t the issue, the issue is that one country can really hurt us if attacked because it actually has nukes, N. Korea and one has “the possibility of possibly having a chance to hurt us sometime in the next 100 years”, Iran.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t you rather attack the country that can’t fight back with nukes?</p>