US Army Secretary John McHugh announced this week that American women will be soon forced to register for the draft upon their 18th birthday just as men are. Army officials said that the move was in the spirit of “true and pure equality,” but with the country wrapped up in dozens of unpopular wars it seems more like equal oppression than equal opportunity.
Currently, US citizens are not forcefully conscripted into military service, but not long ago the draft was a very real thing, and like the flip of a switch it can be imposed at any time that the government fails to recruit enough people for their wars.
A recent ruling to open more combat roles to women inadvertently opened them up for selection for the draft.
McHugh said that universal draft registration will be a normal part of American culture before we know it.
“If we find ourselves as a military writ large where men and women have equal opportunity, as I believe we should,” he said.
Not only are the wars currently taking place around the world totally inhumane and illegitimate, but the very concept of conscription is nothing more than slavery, forcing someone to do something against their will. Not only that but a mandatory draft would put people into a dangerous situation and force them to kill against their will, which is wrong for both men and women.
With no end in sight for the wars across the Middle East and now Africa, it should be no surprise that bringing the draft back would definitely be on the agenda.
Equality of freedom and equality of opportunity is something that people of all races, genders and ethnicities deserve, and this is a direction that humanity should move in. However, equal oppression is something entirely different, and when one social group is oppressed, we should work to free them from oppression, instead of shifting that oppression onto other social groups and calling it equality, as the US Army has done this week. Instead of celebrating the fact that the draft can be forced onto anyone, we should be working to abolish the concept of a military draft.
Check out Murray Rothbard’s classic essay on conscription below:
This article is VERY misleading.
NO AMERICAN is required to register for the draft when they turn 18.
If one wishes to receive government employment or benefits, one must sign up for the selective service. IT is optional yet they claim you can be arrested and jailed for failing to do so.
IF you are like me and had a parent who was a f-in retard and they signed you up for a social security card as a baby than you may have a higher chance of falling under the requirement than others.
There is and never has been any lawful requirement for an American National to register or sign ANYTHING.
A king does not take orders from the jester.
but most people are the jokes, not the kings they where born to be.
This is bullshit, I threw mine away and I threw my boys registration away too. I’ll do the same with my daughter. If they are so hard up for war , they’ll get one, right here at home.
Amen, they wont get any of my kids either
I can tell you right now they wouldnt want my Daughter , she at her age has a better understanding of whats going on than every one of her peers . ( home schooled)
This is a Kid that Flat out told a cop
“I dont talk to cops” , and they kept pushing and questioning (as usual) and she just kept saying , I dont talk to cops , until they got tired of hearing it and left
By the time I was 18, I had it figured out (at least as far as the draft was concerned, anyway). That was during the Vietnam era, and I had been watching idiots on the news either burning their draft cards, or the next ‘fad’, sending them aloft in helium balloons (due to the ‘do not fold, spindle or mutilate’ ‘clause’). The result was always the same either way – they ALL went to jail.
I took a different approach. I found out that if you didn’t register in the first place, and made it to 26 without them finding out, it was a done deal… they couldn’t touch me.
That worked out real well for me.
if they ever pull the draft shit again.. I can guarantee that Fragging will be at an all time high
Now they get you when you go in for a D’s license. They actually sign you up and send the papers in the mail, at least that was our experience.
All the feminists can be thanked for this statement ” Army officials said that the move was in the spirit of “true and pure equality.”
You all want to act like men, well this is what you get, of course not that any of these wars are legitimate. Of course being the feminists that you are, you won’t know this anyway.
Next we’ll see the officers’ schools being ramped up, as well, because like in Nam, they will be short-lived careers.
There is another side to this, rarely spoken about: There are not enough “able bodied men” to fill the ranks. Many want nothing to do with the military, they want to start their careers making big bucks. Others are too obese to cut the mustard. This draft is all about warm bodies.
I wouldn’t mind if they were only drafting the feminists. Drop a gang of bull-dykes in combat and they’ll be right at home.
Military conscription is indentured servitude and therefore illegal according to the US Constitution. In defense of an invasion of the US it may be perceived differently, but to fight wars for Israel in the Middle East, it’s certainly unconstitutional.