Bill Designed to Force Draft Registration:

‘California’s draft-age men, among the nation’s worst at registering with the Selective Service, could be denied driver’s licenses for failing to sign up under a bill moving through the Senate.

Despite objections that it would quash dissent to the draft and might be used to “flush out” illegal immigrants, the bill passed the Senate Governmental Organization Committee on Tuesday.’ LA Times

The bill is opposed by immigrant advocacy groups and pacifist organizations such as the Quakers, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mennonites whose members’ faiths may compel noncomplicity with the selective service system. More generally insidious, however, is the the bill in effect automatically registers draft-age men when they are issued their first driver’s license or state ID by forwarding their names to a federal databank, in essence implementing the cradle-to-grave totalitarian identity control which opponents of a national ID card system decry. 15 other states, it should be noted, sanction nonregistrants with similar consequences, but it does not appear they take this extra step of automatically forwarding driver’s license information to Washington.