Do you have a source that says the government has to grant your request? I tried scouring the law and it seems true but I struggle with the lingo.

Also the changes that were last made to the law seem to explicitly differentiate between war and none war situation as to which paragraphs are applied so they could have applied that paragraph only to situations of war. So I still think a Discussion and some scrutiny is warrented here as to why we “kept” this rule.