Re-established by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Selective Service program has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars over the past 36 years registering all men aged 18-26 for a military draft which not only doesn’t exist, but which the Pentagon has repeatedly expressed public opposition to.
And while the program’s website brags that “It’s What a Man’s Got to Do,” the program is about to get a lot bigger, and by extension, a lot more expensive, as the Senate Armed Services Committee has followed its House counterpart in passing the Draft America’s Daughters Act of 2016, which would expand the registration requirement to women.
If passed, the DADA would go into effect by 2018, effectively doubling the number of people who have to register for a military draft that, again, both doesn’t exist and that the Pentagon continually expresses opposition to. The House is also attempting to include the bill’s language in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
There has been opposition to the expansion of the Selective Service to women, with some bipatrisan effort in Congress to block the resolution. Those supporting the expansion are citing “fairness,” though there is a separate effort to eliminate the Selective Service outright, with advocates noting this would also be fair, and dramatically cheaper.
To all my friends and family in the states who have children…GET OUT NOW!!
Man — Too stupid to comprehend a natural instinct
When faced with mortal danger, a woman will grab her hair, step back and scream. Whereas, a man will grab a rock step forward and yell.
Stepping back is the most stupid thing one can do. Instantly signals “prey” to the predator. It’s just a question of training anyway.
Call your Congress persons ..NOW,….Do not wait…and tell them the END THE SELECTIVE SERVICE. They are planning bigger wars and need the women power to help…ACT NOW.
Right now women vote for warmonger politicians and don’t have to worry about dying in the war they chose to support. We need a draft with NO deferments or exemptions.
You think we need “boots on the ground”? Good. Here’s your rifle. The front line is that way.
1) more women than men are anti war
2) men vote for anti-abortion politicians and don’t have to worry about dying in childbirth or illegal unsafe abortions…I don’t think men should be allowed to vote then
Hey, all you braindead women that are going to vote for Killery, you better get ready to get drafted and fight in the wars that she already has planed. What’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander. Right?
GREAT IDEA way past TIME, the best way to STOP the WARMONGERS!
IF the DRAFT was REAL there would be NO USA wars , NO wars for a GREAT Israel ,No US weapons for sale to the USA BECAUSE a draft will put people against US WARS for NOTHING but MONEY!
The DOD wants WAR that is how they make MONEY! Drafting CITIZENS makes pissed off citizens same as NAM thats why they quit the draft and STOPPED showing the BODY BAGS.BRING it back to stop the stupid wars.
Girls can fight now too? Cool, we’ll need em for the revolution.
No war but the class war and the class war’s a comm’n.
I have told my granddaughter the real history of the U.S. military and all its falsity regarding defending the country. I told her the “current threat” to our way of life is not the Russian Federation but the militarists in Washington, DC who want to use bombs and bullets to conquer foreign lands and their people’s resources. I told her 58,000 of my generation died in Vietnam for a lie.
She will not be registering for any draft. My granddaughter is my flesh and blood and I will deny the clutches of tyranny from taking her away from our family. If they try there will be a war they couldn’t have imagined.
The moniker DADA is just right for this DADA.
You’ve come a long way baby. Unfortunately in this case.