US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators to support H.R. 2509 / S. 1139, which would eliminate the mechanism for the military draft. Specifically, it would do these things:

• Repeal the Military Selective Service Act (thereby eliminating Presidential authority to order men to register with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft and eliminating criminal penalties for failure or refusal to register);
• Abolish the Selective Service System (thereby ending contingency planning by the SSS for the Health Care Personnel Delivery System or any other form of special-skills draft);
• Prohibit all other Federal agencies from imposing civil sanctions (denial of federal student financial aid, federally-funded jobs, etc.) for nonregistration or using nonregistration as a basis for other adverse determinations (denial of naturalization as a U.S. citizen, etc.);
• "Preempt" (and thereby override and prohibit) all state sanctions for nonregistration (denial of drivers' licenses, state financial aid, state jobs, etc.); and
• Preserve the rights of conscientious objectors under other laws and regulations (such as applicants for reassignment to noncombatant duties or discharge from the military on the basis of conscientious objection).

*Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts.*

*Extinction Rebellion prosecutions showed the spectrum of climate protest.*

*Environment protest being criminalised around world, say experts.*

*Extinction Rebellion prosecutions showed the spectrum of climate protest.*

Huawei equipment seems to have been able to snoop on all calls in the main Dutch mobile phone network.

To put this in context, mobile phones enable much more spying than that.

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