Posted on 07/16/2015 4:09:33 AM PDT by SMGFan
Newser) – A teenage girl in New Jersey is suing the federal government for the right to be drafted. Or at least the right to register for the draft, which hasn't been used in decades. Though identified only as E.K.L. in the federal class-action suit, the Star-Ledger identifies the teen as recent high school graduate Elizabeth Kyle. And her complaint is fairly straightforward: Now that the military is opening up even combat roles to women, it makes no sense to require males to register for the draft at age 18 but not females. In fact, it’s unconstitutional, she argues. Kyle filed the complaint via her mother, asserting that the Selective Service violates the civil rights
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Be careful what you ask for; you might just get it!
The draft “is” going to be used again, and I believe in my lifetime. That is, the next 40-60 years.
In USC law all able-bodied men 17-45 are a member of the unorganized militia whether they know it or not, it’s the law. This same law was changed in the 1950’s to include all females that have served in the organized armed forces.
She has no standing in current USC law.
If I was a a young lady, I’d sock this lady because she is kicking a hornet’s nest. It is better just to leave it be. Why must people become agitators?
My daughters will not be registering, regardless of any court ruling.
Why do we even need a selective service? We haven’t used the draft since Viet Nam, and there’s a zillion ways for the guvmint to track people. It’s another bloated, useless bureaucracy.
To answer your question, let me ask you a question in return:
Why do we need a Second Amendment ? We haven’t rebelled against tyranny in nearly 240 years. . .
I believe that, in general, current members of the military do not want a draft. We join the military because we want to serve, and we don’t want to work with people who are only there because they have to be.
What is preventing this girl from running down to the nearest recruiter and enlisting? At the age of 17, she has the right to do so, as long as one of her parents signs for her.
In the new age of anything goes, could not she go the “self identified” route? Likewise, what’s to stop any 18 year-old male refusing to register based on “self identification” of something other than male?
I don’t know why anyone who would support voluntary military service by women would be opposed to selective service registration by women. During the WWII draft, conscientious objectors were drafted into non-combat roles, such as corps men. During Vietnam, conscripts were spread throughout the military, including service in Europe, and we’re not sent exclusively to the front lines in Southeast Asia. Conscription does not equal combat service.
The fact the DoD has not figured out the selective service registration of women post full inclusion of women in combat roles (which per SCOTUS was the only supportable justification to disallow it), and now is focused on integrating transgenders just show how lost out Pentagon leadership truly is.
I have always thought it was unfair to mandate the inclusion of women in the service academies, but not in the draft. It should always have been an all-skate.
You often don't see the value in something until you don't have it anymore. The passive role the 2nd amendment plays is one of those things.
-PJ
corps men ?
I always wondered about that.
I may or may not be persuaded to allow for a universal registration regardless of sex. I am adamantly opposed to nine Justices deciding it for me, as they seem to be doing with every other issue this day.
Yes and no: because the Union Army was not a citizen’s militia, but a part of the regular Army. . .
But I was just heaping scorn on the argument that, since we hadn’t had a draft since Vietnam, we no longer needed the Selective Service. . .
Just what is Twitsey’s point other than being an attention whore? Why not just enlist. Nothing is stopping her.
What is preventing this girl from running down to the nearest recruiter and enlisting? At the age of 17, she has the right to do so, as long as one of her parents signs for her.
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But, then, she would not be getting all of this attention, see?
Thank you for your service, BTW.
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