Draft registration ended in 1974 and the Selective Service System (SSS) was put into deep standby. In 1980 President Carter revived the SSS and resumed draft registration following the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.
At that time there was significant vocal and public resistance to registration. For many people then, and still today, the act of registering for the draft is cooperation with the war machine, and that violates their conscience. Hundreds of thousands failed to register in the early years.
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It is past time to end draft registration and the penalties imposed on people of conscience. The Selective Service System should be put back into deep standby.