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2016-02-08 Government

Ted Cruz: Drafting Women Is A Result Of Out Of Control Political Correctness

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-08 06:19|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 It's not as much PC as the long march from social contract to legal contract and the logical conclusions that are the consequences. If you shelved all the federal laws and regulations in 1950 you'd probably take up an entire aisle in a good size library. Today That would take up the whole library because the bureaucrats, lawyers and pols (yes that redundant to a large extent) want to codify every little aspect of our lives, forcing all of us into set behaviors instead of allowing the natural course of human interaction govern behaviors (ie social contract).

The states rejected ratification of the Equal Rights Amendments with arguments about 'same sex bathrooms' and the 'draft of women' - social contract. Regardless, the oligarchs as manifested in SCOTUS have systematically imposed by interpretation 'legal' contract of that failed amendment. You're going to get it whether the people consent or not! Gee, and those same social arguments against it are now coming to pass.

The 'classical' liberal position was 'equal opportunity' allowing merit to sort things out. The socialist position is 'equal outcome' regardless of merit. America has made choices, now they shall bear the consequences.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-08 08:53|| 2016-02-08 08:53|| Front Page Top

#2 We should get rid of the selective service or go all in the way Israel and Germany do and call folks up to work in Hospitals and such.

Personally I'm torn because I think it's an abomination against liberty yet some of these kids need some kind of discipline and buy in to society.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-02-08 15:08|| 2016-02-08 15:08|| Front Page Top

#3 And all the way includes the ladies. No reason we can't get them working in soup kitchens or retirement homes or the VA hospital, they don't have to serve in the military.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-02-08 15:09|| 2016-02-08 15:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Conscripts tend to be unmotivated. The military shouldn't be bothered with such.

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-08 15:19|| 2016-02-08 15:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Would you want to share a foxhole with a conscript who didn't give a sh*t and didn't want to be there?

And was suffering from PMS?

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-02-08 15:28|| 2016-02-08 15:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Sven - WTF!?! Half of my platoon was conscripted. Include me in that half! As were a sizeable number of most infantry. Most of us were US not RA.

Posted by illeagle 2016-02-08 15:38|| 2016-02-08 15:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Some constitutional points -

Article I, Section 8 -
The Congress shall have Power...
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

They did that with the Militia Act of 1792, now manifested in Title X USC para 3.1.1. Militia.

It is not an alternate job program. There is no alternative service because it immediate runs roughshod against the 13th Amendment and involuntary servitude (though the Donks, now socialist, have always loved involuntary servitude). It was in the beginning having skin the game of the old republic. You get this 'democracy' but you have to protect it.

As for the draft, those of us who went through the early and late seventies with lots of desertions, drugs, race riots, loads of UCMJ actions, et al, remember the remnants of that last draft army. Better to have 8 men of a 12 man squad who are motivated than have to spend 80 percent of your time dealing with distractions of 4 malcontents.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-08 16:07|| 2016-02-08 16:07|| Front Page Top

#8 @rjschwarz

Draft has been suspended in Germany. All social services are voluntary.

Posted by European Conservative 2016-02-08 17:08|| 2016-02-08 17:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Personally I'm torn because I think it's an abomination against liberty yet some of these kids need some kind of discipline and buy in to society.

Cut out all the free stuff and that might smarten up a bit.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-02-08 17:12|| 2016-02-08 17:12|| Front Page Top

#10 @European Conservative, glad to hear my info is old. My ex-step father used to talk about his time, but that was during the cold war when a case for the service was a lot easier to justify.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-02-08 20:41|| 2016-02-08 20:41|| Front Page Top

#11 To paraph CNN AM + BERNIE SANDERS' SEL-PROCLAIMED NEW "POLITICAL REVOLUTION" IN AMERICA ...

* LUCIANNE > [American Thinker] NO MORE ROOM FOR COMPROMISE WID SOCIALIST AGENDA OF DEMOCRATS.

* CNN_MONEY@TWITTER > UNDER [POTUS?] SANDERS, INCOMES AND JOBS WILL SOAR, ECONOMISTS SAY.

HOOORRAAY, boy o' boy, iff this is Sanderian Democratic Socialism in America, it should be even better under COMMUNISM = SOVIETISM!

D *** NG IT, MARXISM-TOTALITARIANISM FOREVER!

* FREEREPUBLIC > [CNBC] MEXICO "WON'T PAY A SINGLE CENT FOR [POTUS?] TRUMP'S STUPID [+ Useless, Crazy = Failed-Even-Before-It-was-Built] WALL"!

Former Mexico President Felipe Calderon.

YOKAY, I'LL BITE, I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL SUPPOSED TO BE MEXICANS + CANADIANS + GREENLANDERS NOW UNDER OWG + NAU + RELATED + GLOBALISM + "DIVERSITY" - I thought the "American Dream" was now the "North American/Amerikan Dream"???

Well, I'm certainly confused.

SInce the focii of US Immigration is allegedly no longer the Tex-Mex Border, WILL MAHICO PAY FOR A WALL ON ITS BORDERS WID THE LOWER AMERICAS???

OR DOES OWG AMERIKA NEED NICARAGUA TO OFFSET MEXICO???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-02-08 23:40|| 2016-02-08 23:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Kinda sorta like NYC's future WTC being targeted for attack-n-destruction by Osama Bin Laden + State Sponsors even while it was being built starting back in 1969.

But I digress ... ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-02-08 23:43|| 2016-02-08 23:43|| Front Page Top

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