Posted on 05/03/2016 9:45:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A key congressional committee voted last week to require young women to register for potentially compulsory military service, but the gender-equalizing reform threatens to make felons out of women who refused to participate.
Though prosecutions currently appear unlikely, men jailed for not registering with the Selective Service System and some former authorities who participated in the cases are concerned about criminalizing a large swath of the population.
Enforcement wasn’t always lax, and the law that may be applied to women allows for five-year prison sentences for "knowing and willful" non-registration with an equally long statute of limitations.
“It will inevitably lead to massive resistance, whether visible in the streets or women just blowing it off the way men have," says Edward Hasbrouck, prosecuted for not registering in the 1980s. "Congress is smoking crack if they think women can be forced to register."
Hasbrouck served more than four months in prison after catching the eye of an ambitious federal prosecutor, Robert Mueller, who went on to be FBI director. He originally received a suspended sentence, but recalls an unamused judge sending him to prison in late 1984 for doing peace activism to satisfy court-ordered community service....
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Not anymore. They simply have fallen flat on their duty to increase the population. The birthrate is negative. Women want to act like men, they need to be treated like men.
Equal is equal.
What’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander.
As true a statement today as it’s ever been.
Oh yes, the infamous result of unforseen circumstances.
Was it ever settled that Obama registered with selective service? Or was that sealed?
“Women are too important to be drafted. A population can recover with losing a sizeable portion of young men, but women of child bearing age.”
Men = disposable utilities for women and the state.
Women = abort millions a year....become too important, because reasons.
Partial effect of a repeal of the 19th?
This is just a peripheral thought, but the objective of registration was originally so the government could find you for draft notification. Believe me, if the government wants to find you and you are living normally as all but a few criminals do, then they know where you are.
I was filling out a security form online for the Navy. The security questions included what towns I lived in thirty years ago and what model car I owned in 1990.
Well, thanks so much! I can't begin to express how much I and my fellow green suiters appreciate your support!
May I ask in what profession you work, so that I can denigrate it, as well?
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.
Very interesting.
Millions of immigrants are not registered.
I believe the entire population has long been “criminalized” already in that one cannot breathe without breaking federal laws or regulations that come with large fines and or prison time. It doesn’t matter any more what Congress passes. Anyone in the country can be arrested and prosecuted at any time for felonious activity.
Reality is a harsh schoolmaster.
Feminists pushed and pushed and pushed for females in combat. Now that they have that, they decry the natural consequence - no more protection from the draft.
“Equal before the law” must be the battlecry in all of the matters - even when the libs don’t like the outcome.
No transgender comments?
Ok, presently, if you don’t have to register if you’re a woman, who gets to decide if you’re a woman?
No, they need to go back to from whence they came.
Wouldn’t this cut down on the amount of federal student loans/grants? I don’t believe you can get gov’t loans if you haven’t registered.
and co-ed showers /s
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