Earlier this week, a Texas man with a fancy title declared the draft "unconstitutional" because its men-only mandate is antithetical to gender equality, especially now that the military brass has stripped all gender restrictions for military duty. Oddly , this has had no effect whatsoever on the Selective Service System, which continues running its business as usual.
This announcement has led to three general positions when the matter is discussed.
- The Fifth Circus Court or the Supreme Court needs to over-rule this judge! Congresscritters need to re-write the law to ensure women aren't sent into combat.
- Women have equal rights and privileges, so they have equal responsibilities and obligations to serve society, too.
- Abolish the draft altogether.
The first two seem to be most hotly debated in public forums. That third option is little considered. Never mind that the draft was ended in 1973, the government still claims all men must sign up for the Selective Service anyway. Their wars are not ours. Fight for freedom and reject the draft. Remember, if the military were fighting for our freedom, they'd be waging their war in the streets of DC, not obeying the orders from the government there to kill strangers and prop up puppet states around the globe.
Government claiming explicit ownership over the lives and liberty of the people is laughable by the terms of their own propaganda. "We serve and protect you, so do as we say, or else!" In the past, the courts have declared that it isn't slavery if government does it. I expect a new decision will state that women must register to become cannon fodder at the whim of politicians, too. This will be celebrated as "progress toward equality" just like the decisions about homosexual military service. Equal slavery is not liberty.
I find it laughable that the draft was found unconstitutional due to opting for Women's rights and not due to it being immoral treating people like chattel. I fail to see how being forced to register with selective services gives you any more "rights". Though I can't expect these corrupt judges to do anything right because anything good they do is either by accident or has ulterior motives.
Your second image really sums it up nicely :)
Great article!
I think the last image is from a socialist magazine during WW1.
The Constitution only means what the government it is alleged to restrain decides it means. Seems a bit broken there.
Yeah it looks like it's from "The Masses" magazine 1917, at least according to your source. Interesting to say the least.
I thought the Tenth Amendment made it pretty clear:
You are right though... they will interpret it any way they want, even so called "originalists".
In my opinion, standing armies are the biggest threat to peace and freedom and yet they grow stronger every year. The military and police are the empty husks, golems and order followers who attempt to abdicate their own personal responsibility of their actions to their superiors and have no duty to protect you.
"All wars are banker's wars" right? I completely agree with the immorality of the draft and selective service registration.
Not all socialists are blind to liberty. Eugene Debs was a hero when stood up to Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson was a traitorous scumbag who sold his country down the river in my opinion. I don't know too much about Eugene Debs other than I have heard him talked about in some socialist circles.
You have been giving me a lot of people to look into as of late! I appreciate that. :)
I think Debs was wrong politically and economically, but his intentions seem far less sinister than those of the current crop of self-professed socialists
The draft has always been unconstitutional (thanks, 65th Congress!), but penal battalions, curiously, are not (I'm told). Since the US already has a ludicrously high prison population, you can see where I'm going with this, and before you ask if I would trust a prisoner with a gun, ask yourself "why would they be drafted? What would they be fighting for?"
This is another joke, by the way. Today's military, all across the industrialised world, is so high-tech that the draft is obsolete, as well.