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You know what's worst about my Totalverweigerung? My family, my mother don't want me to do that cuz she doesn't want to release me. I never thought that problem would ever happen to me but it did.
She tries everything to persuade me that I should do these 9 months of forced service like many other do (obviously ignoring that they live in a free and democratic state which is surrounded by friends). I know there are up to 3 years of prison, realisticaly a few months on probation or some bucks. And don't forget the 12 weeks of arrest, something that's no real punishment for a looner like me.
It's about personal liberty, fucking liberty. I'm living in a country that pretends that everyone has the right of developing his personality as he likes to. So why is this government trying to make a soilder out of me? I don't want to learn how to kill someone else, learn me how to program computers, how to work in a factory, how to save your life but don't force me to do any kind of service.
As H.D. Thoreau once put it: "I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward."
I'm a free man, I was educated this way, and thus I refuse to serve this government.