From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: More Historical Material on Universal Service
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1069
Posted: Sun Nov  7 17:10:06 1982
Received: Wed Nov 10 06:53:37 1982
References: eagle.599

There is one minor point of fact which I would like clarification on in
Charles's article on the draft. Charles wrote "Third, the draft is not
involuntary in any case. You may break the contract with the community and
not be drafted. Of course, to do so you must give up your citizenship and
leave the country.". I think I read that the U.S. government signed treaties
with governments of Canada and Mexico a few years ago (at about the time 
that draft registration was reactivated) which enabled the U.S. government
to extradite draft resisters from Canada and Mexico. If this is the case,
then leaving the country and dropping one's citizenship seem to be insufficient
to protect one from the draft. I realize that this would only imply that
leaving is not a Sufficient condition, while it may still remain a Necessary
condition. Does Charles intend to make that particular distinction, or is
my recollection of the treaties inaccurate, or is something else amiss?
                                     Jeffrey Soreff