The best way for soldiers to deal with the issue of stop-loss, in my opinion, is to find power in their numbers. Almost one fifth of the soldiers who serve in Iraq are stop-lossed and forced to return. That is far more than enough people to congregate together and rise against the government. This would not be the most peaceful, or easy solution, but it could be the only one that is enough to make a difference. The government is clearly not paying any attention to each individual soldier, therefore they must band together to gain attention. Surely the government cannot arrest that many soldiers, and even if they wanted to, they wouldn't just for appearance's sake. How would the American public react if thousands of soldiers who had just risked their lives to defend the country were thrown into jail? That is hardly a welcome home. I think that the only real way for these soldiers to cause enough commotion to be respected and to truly take a stand against stop loss is to all come together and refuse to go back together. This way, there is no one getting physically hurt, no one fleeing the country to pretend their lives never existed, and no one getting killed in war when their tours had already been served.
It is very hard for civil disobedience against a government to be accepted by most. Remember the Civil Rights movement, but I do think that individual civil disobedience might force the govt. to reexamine the policy
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