Monday, June 18, 2007

Our Visit To The Cato Institute

On June 13, 2007, our draftcap10 group took a trip to the Cato Institute. The Cato Institute was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane. The Cato Institute is a public policy research foundation that is located in Washington, DC. We had a speaker and his name was Christopher Preble. Mr.Preble taught us a lot about the government, the military, and the draft. A draft is involuntary labor demanded by people with authority and government policies that require citizens to serve their country. Christopher Preble himself was once in the military and he said that he disagree with the draft because he feel that you shouldn't take away people's freedom or make them do things that they don't agree with. If it was a draft and people decided that they didn't want to serve for the military, they will be punished. Mr.Preble said when people volunteer to join the military, they serve more time serving their country than they would if they were drafted. I agree with Mr.Preble because the draft is a violation of people rights. The only way you can get out of a draft, is if you don't meet all the military requirements. Even though you may not meet all the requirements, you can still be drafted if the military needs more troops. If you want to know more information about the Cato Institute, you can go to http://www.cato.org/
-Janae Smith

1 comment:

smf & mjp said...

This is a great post, Janae! I hope you all are having a good time and behaving yourselves. I miss Chavez already....

Ms. Fine