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What precedent are you talking about?

• dogma1138 11y ago
  Truman issued an ultimatum to draft coal and railroad workers during the steel strikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_steel_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_steel_strike There was a doctor's draft in the 50's, there was a more recent general "health care workers" selective draft but I'm not sure where it exactly stands. Basically what Obama can do is issue a requirement to register with the Selective Services Administration as a threat failure to do so can incur heavy fines on each Apple employee. Once they are registered they can draft any engineer they need into military service and order them to do so, if they refuse they can be court marshalled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Service_System This ofcourse will never happen, the most extreme case was under Truman and it was an ultimatum with an apparent executive order drafted but that was enough to bring the steel industry to it's knees and to the table. The funny part is that if anything even remotely extreme happens we might start to see the seeds of the "2nd American Revolution" the one from so many dystopian novels where the world is ruled by corporations Apple, Google, Microsoft and the likes have enough power to seed the "corporate congress" :)
  • charonn0 11y ago
    I'm pretty sure Congress would have to reinstate the draft first.
    • dogma1138 11y ago
      The draft system was replaced by the SSA it's slightly different now basically they can only draft registered individuals but they also compel individuals to register with the SSA. As far as I know there is not requirement for an act of congress to actually draft people under the SSA and for anything else a presidential order is sufficient.