Look Out: They're Planning to Draft Your Daughter by John G. Schmitz (Belmont, Mass.: American Opinion, 1972)
A pamphlet distributed by opponents of the proposed Equal rights Amendment to the Constitution
Posted on 05/13/2016 8:32:22 AM PDT by Da Bilge Troll
Pregnant, female, Navy SEALs was something many of us used to joke about as a way of exaggerating the absurd social engineering in the military. Yet, placing women in special operations and direct combat units has now become a reality under the Obama-led Pentagon. Sadly, not only have Republicans like John McCain refused to use their perches on the Armed Services Committees in the House and Senate to block this social engineering, they are now codifying it with a provision that could lead to a mandatory draft of all women. Earlier this week, I noted that the final House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) contained a provision for the first time ever including young women in the requirement to register for Selective Service. However, this provision was only added because of a strategic mistake of the committee chairman who thought the members would vote down this absurdity. He was just trying to make a point. John McCain, on the other hand, who is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, deliberately placed that provision in his chairman's mark of the NDAA, according to a Senate staffer.
I am further told by Senate staff that it is unlikely an amendment to strike this provision will even succeed on the floor of the Senate, which means a majority of that body now supports drafting women. The only hope to stop this is on the House floor. Have we gone mad as a society?
Any vestige of GOP opposition to Democrat social transformation is now gone. There is no floor. Battle lines that used to hold for decades are now plowed through by Democrats in a matter of one committee markup. A party that stands for nothing, indeed.
Update: A Summary of the NDAA from McCain's office defends the provision to include women in Selective Service as follows: "Because the Department of Defense has lifted the ban on women serving in ground combat units, the committee believes there is no further justification in limiting the duty to register under the Military Selective Service Act to men." Thus, McCain believes that because a few liberal social groups and Obama's politically appointed generals want to include women in combat on a voluntary basis, the Senate should therefore require all women to potentially register for the draft. And instead of debating this earth shattering social transformation publicly in a standalone bill, McCain decided to slip in the provision to a 1,000-page bill authorizing all defense programs.
Another disturbing provision in this bill establishes an independent National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service. The commission is tasked with, among other things, to "consider how to foster a sense of service and civic responsibility among the nation's youth, improve military recruiting, and increase the pool of qualified applicants for military service and their propensity to serve." While this provision sounds innocuous, some conservatives might be concerned that given McCain's long record of support for Americorps and other public service programs, he will use this program to compel young adults (now including women) into some sort of public service.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who sits on the Armed Services Committee, was so vehemently opposed to this provision that he voted against the underlying bill. In a statement provided to Conservative Review, the Texas senator noted that although the committee adopted 12 of his amendments related to an array of foreign policy and national security issues, he could not "in good conscience vote to draft our daughters into the military, sending them off to war and forcing them into combat." "I will continue my efforts to speak out against the effort to force America's daughter into combat," wrote the former presidential candidate in a statement.
Update: Sens. Mike Lee and Deb Fischer also voted against final passage. Sen. Lee called this provision "misguided and ill-advised" in a statement he released tonight. He also opposed the bill because it continues the program funding the Syrian rebels. "The bill authorizes the continuation of the Syria Train and Equip program, which was suspended last year after expending hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to train only four or five fighters and finance the purchase of weapons that were ultimately seized by Al Nusra, the Syrian Al Qaeda affiliate," wrote Lee. "I firmly believe that the American counter-ISIS strategy must be reconsidered from the top-down and that we should not fund failing programs."
McCain is a dumbass.
There is no better way to end this nonsense of women being equal to men than by making women equal to men.
- Megan
A Summary of the NDAA from McCain’s office defends the provision to include women in Selective Service as follows: “Because the Department of Defense has lifted the ban on women serving in ground combat units, the committee believes there is no further justification in limiting the duty to register under the Military Selective Service Act to men.” Thus, McCain believes that because a few liberal social groups and Obama’s politically appointed generals want to include women in combat on a voluntary basis, the Senate should therefore require all women to potentially register for the draft.”
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I agree with almost nothing the RINO says but i do agree with this.
Any country that sends women to fight for it is no longer worth fighting for.
Have we gone mad as a society? “
For the most part, YES!
Well, my take may be a bit different. But to me, this is an issue of how far do we take women’s lib. If there is to be complete equality in every area of life, per the liberals/leftists, then of course females should be available for the draft, if we ever go back to the draft.
Hoist the liberals on their petard. There are some good valid reasons why the two sexes are treated differently in some areas of life. If they persist that there can be no differences, no “discrimination”, then logically, females need to be drafted too.
Kill the damn bill. No one stops them from joining except their own short comings.
If this helps de feet this old coot ,
Fine
A pamphlet distributed by opponents of the proposed Equal rights Amendment to the Constitution
McCain is so unpredictable, he is the Loki of the Republican Party.
I am with him on this one. No better way to kill the vestigial, useless Selective Service System. Its retirement is long overdue.
Any country that sends women to fight for it is no longer worth fighting for.
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Neither is a country that would re-elect Obama.
I hate Juan, but this makes sense. If women are going to be on the front lines and in Special Forces, then they can be conscripts. Otherwise it’s a.double standard.
That said, women don’t belong in combat. Doing so is reckless and harmful for the sake of political grandstanding.
On a related topic, the terms on which the ERA was “suspended” are interesting and somewhat debatable.
There is a danger that if they get enough control the Dems will bring it back and “deem” it passed with just a couple more states.
I wouldn’t mind drafting them into completely noncombat (think, stateside administrative) positions in time of war.
But in our current environment, this is crazy.
The Democrats want this and McCain’s purpose is to give the Democrats what they want while taking the political hit on the Democrats’ behalf. McCain and Graham have always seen that as their main function.
couldn’t agree more.
The answer to Egalitarian/Collectivism is found in the biological & psychological realities of life. Humoring it to demonstrate its absurdity is itself absurd. The answer is to end the era in which “politically correct” bullies can silence all discussion of those biological & psychological realites.
The Democrats want this because it will achieve their objective of turning us into a pacifist nation.
The Left has been lamenting the fact that they haven’t been able to get a really good antiwar movement going since we went to an all-volunteer military.
Their thinking is that if their daughters are likely to be drafted, all of the parents will take to the streets and protest the next time some Republican wants to start an “illegal war”.
McCain is playing right into their hands.
Only question is whether it’s due to treachery or senility.
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