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| Congress Stealthily Moves Closer To Making Women Register For The Draft |
| 2021-09-05 |
| [Zero] An alternative compromise amendment to suspend draft registration unless the President declared a national emergency and put the Selective Service System into standby was submitted before Wednesday's committee session, but ruled out of order on the basis of arcane PAYGO procedural rules. Under the same rules, the amendment to the NDAA to expand draft registration to women was ruled in order, considered, and adopted without any antiwar opposition from members of the committee. Floor amendments may be proposed when the NDAA is considered by the full House and/or the Senate to repeal the Military Selective Service Act, end draft registration entirely, abolish the Selective Service System, or put Selective Service into "standby" as it was from 1975-1980. But even if such amendments are proposed and put to a vote, they have little chance of success in either the House or the Senate. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 You know, once upon a time you could expect a decent low average from conscripts. Look around today and ask yourself how many people you see at random you'd share a foxhole with. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-05 07:53 |
| #4 No militia, then no need for the 2d Amendment (for a well regulated militia) will be next. Got to get into the opponents mind to understand their next move. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-09-05 07:40 |
| #3 /\ Bingo! Will make the draft absolutely unenforceable and meaningless, thus ending it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-05 07:09 |
| #2 ...The point here is to give the liberals something to hit the GOP over the head with and help get rid of the draft as well. 'Equality' don't enter into it. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-09-05 07:06 |
| #1 Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution - The Congress shall have Power... 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; Two militia acts were passed in 1792, the first year Congress met under the new Constitution. The first said who was in the militia and the second how the militia was to arm itself. Today the militia is defined under Title X USC. A Venn diagram of those who composed the militia and those who exercised the vote was pretty much a total overlap. In 1861 the militia act was amended to include male citizens of African descent followed by the franchise of the 15th Amendment. That changed with the 19th Amendment which while extending the vote to women, failed to include the militia obligation of citizenship that males had been tied to since the start of the republic, aka "skin in the game". |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-09-05 06:36 |