If the government can conscript you into its army, can cause your death or mutilation in some war that has nothing to do with national defense, and can execute you if you resist, then it can do anything to you at any time, for any reason — or without bothering to give a reason.
Johnathan Boley, 4, who was found dead next to his dog in the woods days after vanishing from his father's Alabama home on New Year's Eve, likely died of hypothermia, according to a preliminary autops...