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Edward Hasbrouck

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Edward Hasbrouck grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He considers myself primarily a political activist. Hasbrouck began his resistance to the violence of illegitimate authority as an elected but nonvoting student representative to the local school board and as an activist for peace, disarmament, and students' rights. His first book was a handbook for high school students on their legal rights co-authored in the summer of 1977, between high school and college, as an intern for the student service bureau of the Massachusetts Department of Education. He majored in political science at the University of Chicago until leaving school to pursue direct involvement in political activism.

 

Conscription of young people to fight old people's wars is one of the ultimate expressions of ageism, and for me, resistance to an ageist draft was first and foremost a component and continuation of the struggle for youth liberation. The religious and authoritarian justifications for conscription and war are remarkably similar to the religious and authoritarian rationales for violence against children and for slavery. - Edward Hasbrouck

In 1980, after a five-year hiatus, the U.S. government reinstated the requirement that all young men register for military conscription with the Selective Service System. In 1982, Hasbrouck was selected for criminal prosecution by the U.S. Department of "Justice" (specifically, by William Weld and Robert Mueller) as one of the people they considered the most vocal of the several million nonregistrants for the draft. As one of 20 nonregistrants who were prosecuted before the government abandoned the enforcement of draft registration, Hasbrouck was convicted and "served" four and a half months in a Federal Prison Camp in 1983-1984. The high-profile trials of resistance organizers proved counterproductive for the government. These trials served only to call attention to the government's inability to prosecute more than a token number of nonregistrants, and reassured nonregistrants that they were not alone in their resistance and were in no danger of prosecution unless they called attention to themselves.

 

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House committee revives proposal for "automatic" draft registration

Edward Hasbrouck

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July 30, 2025 / Edward Hasbrouck / Resisters.info - For the second successive year, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has included an ill-considered and unworkable proposal by the Selective Service System (SSS) to try to automatically construct a database of potential draftees from other government records collected for other purposes in the House version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The proposal to try to register young men “automatically” on the basis of aggregation and (mis)matching of other poorly-suited databases collected and intended for other purposes may fit perfectly with the standard operating procedures of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has already obtained access to the Selective Service registration database for unknown purposes. But if DOGE were really concerned with ending wasteful and inefficient government programs and agencies, it would have recommended abolishing the SSS, not making an attempt to salvage it.

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DOGE obtiene acceso a la base de datos de registro del Servicio Selectivo

Edward Hasbrouck

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23 de abril de 2025 / Edward Hasbrouck / Blog de Edward Hasbrouck  - El  Sistema de Servicio Selectivo  ha confirmado que, a partir de esta semana, personal del llamado  Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental  (DOGE) ha llegado al SSS y ha recibido acceso a la base de datos del SSS de hombres registrados para un posible reclutamiento militar.

Hoy un portavoz de SSS me proporcionó esta respuesta oficial a mis preguntas sobre los registros DOGE y SSS:

Un representante de DOGE visitó nuestra Agencia esta semana. Hemos establecido una excelente relación de trabajo. Nos preguntaron sobre nuestros datos y solicitaron acceso, lo cual otorgamos en cumplimiento con la Orden Ejecutiva Presidencial sobre el Establecimiento e Implementación del Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental.

El portavoz del SSS también me informó que DOGE no ha implementado (aún) ningún nuevo programa de cotejo informático con los registros del SSS. Sin embargo, no está claro si el SSS sabría siquiera qué ha hecho DOGE con los datos del SSS, una vez que haya tenido acceso a ellos y posiblemente los haya extraído.  DOGE  y el  SSS  han implementado  programas de cotejo informático  que parecen violar la Ley de Cotejo Informático, por lo que hay pocas razones para esperar que alguno de ellos proporcione la notificación previa requerida sobre nuevos usos de los datos del SSS.

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DOGE gets access to Selective Service registration database

Edward Hasbrouck

U.S. Selective Service SystemApril 17, 2025 / Edward Hasbrouck / Edward Hasbrouck's Blog - The Selective Service System has confirmed that, as of this week, personnel from the so-called Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have arrived at the SSS and have been given access to the SSS database of men registered for a possible military draft.

Today an SSS spokesperson provided me with this official response to my questions about DOGE and SSS records:

A DOGE representative visited our Agency this week. We’ve established a great working relationship. They asked us about our data and requested access, which we gave in compliance with the President’s Executive Order on Establishing and Implementing the Department of Government Efficiency.

The SSS spokesperson also told me that no new computer matching programs involving SSS registration records have been carried out (yet) by DOGE. But it’s not clear whether the SSS would even know what DOGE has done with SSS data, once DOGE has gotten access to it and possibly exfiltrated it. DOGE and the SSS have operated computer matching programs that appear to violate the Computer Matching Act, so there’s little reason to expect that either would provide the required advance notice of new uses of SSS data.

The SSS registration database contains information on all those male U.S. citizens or residents born on or after 1 January 1960 who have registered with the SSS or have been registered by state driver’s license agencies. Compliance is low, many men in these cohorts never registered, and few of the addresses, even for draft-age men, are up to date. But the database is still huge and vulnerable to abuse. Because SSS registration records are so inaccurate and incomplete, matching them against other databases would produce large numbers of mis-matches, with unknown consequences.

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