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In honor of Muhammad Ali, Sen. Rand Paul will introduce bill to end Selective Service
KSTV-TV ^ | June 6, 2016 | Nick Storm

Posted on 06/07/2016 7:39:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

LOUISVILLE — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, will soon be filing stand-alone legislation to end the practice of registering for the Selective Service.

The bill titled ‘The Muhammad Ali Voluntary Service Act’ will be presented to Congress in honor of the famed boxer who refused to serve in the Vietnam War.

On April, 28 1967 the heavy weight champion was stripped of his title for refusing to be inducted in the United States Army. Ali, a Muslim and conscientious objector, was convicted of draft evasion — a conviction that would later be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“One thing I liked about Muhammad Ali is that he would stand on principle even when it was unpopular,” Paul told reporters in Louisville on Monday. “You know, the criminal justice system I say now has a racial justice disparity, selective service had a racial disparity, because a lot of rich white kids either got a deferment or went to college or got out of the draft. I’m opposed to Selective Service.”

If the bill is signed into law, Paul said that the military would stay the same as we know it now, and use an all-volunteer force. Since 1973 the United States has used an all-voluntary military force.

Most men who are 18-25 and are U.S. citizens or are immigrants living in the U.S. are still required to register with Selective Service.

Ali passed away at the age of 74; a public memorial is planned on Friday.

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)


TOPICS: Kentucky; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 114th; conscription; muhammadali; nationofislam; randpaul; selectiveservice
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To: goodnesswins

That would be a day late.


41 posted on 06/07/2016 8:49:26 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Yup...unless there are survivors outside the affected zone


42 posted on 06/07/2016 8:50:42 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: Frankie Yale

“Today’s high-tech military needs educated volunteers, not just any stumblebum like WWII and Korea.”

You bastard. Sounds like you have never served, and that you have a low opinion of some damned fine men. Say things like that much and you won’t be here long...


43 posted on 06/07/2016 8:50:57 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Frankie Yale

Just WOW.


44 posted on 06/07/2016 8:53:59 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

LOL, After I was discharged I said screw it, I’m joining the ARNG or Reserves so they won’t draft me again. Surprisingly they put me on top of the list for entry, no waiting. BTW, I volunteered for the draft, I wanted it behind me. The end result was a sideline career with a check I never thought would be as large as it was. No regrets about being in as a draftee or a retired officer. When people say thank you for your service, I respond by saying thank you for my retirement check!


45 posted on 06/07/2016 8:56:16 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (HILLARY 2016 - SERIOUSLY? What are they thinking?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They don’t really need to do it in honor of anybody, but it does need to end. We’re never going to actually DO it, so the registration is just a waste of time and money.


46 posted on 06/07/2016 9:00:12 AM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the civil war that amendment wasn’t there yet. In WWI the progressive Woodrow Wilson said draftees weren’t against their will, because Congress declared war. He said that meant the entire nation had volunteered -collectively-.

It was carried on under that same concept until thankfully it died.

Spin it how you want, tell me about Elvis and WWII, etc. But the fact is, it is involuntary servitude. People are forced to perform service up to their deaths, against their will, at gunpoint. The survivors get nostalgia and think it was pretty cool. Unfortunately, there are many voices we don’t get to ask.


47 posted on 06/07/2016 9:02:22 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: goodnesswins

“The Draft will be automatic when the first EMP or nuke hits our shores”

No, and that’s the beauty of it. On that day, people would wait in line to sign up. They would also have an expectation that it would be a serious military, not a nutty one like we have now. See Pearl Harbor for how people would act if we got nuked.


48 posted on 06/07/2016 9:04:55 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Frankie Yale
. Today’s high-tech military needs educated volunteers, not just any stumblebum like WWII and Korea.

That you, John Kerry?


49 posted on 06/07/2016 9:05:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Also, todays military is so perverted, filled with homos, trannys, breast feeding moms, and treasonous internationalist, careerist statist officers, that nobody should be forced to participate in it.


50 posted on 06/07/2016 9:07:03 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: DesertRhino
Throughout history there has been a draft when war came.
Even in W.W.II there was a draft.

Perhaps if some of these “Snowflakes” had to serve a little time in the military they might get a clue.

During the 1950’s after Korea we still had a draft and people served for about 18 months to 2 years.

A little military discipline never hurt anyone.

51 posted on 06/07/2016 9:16:42 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

“A little military discipline never hurt anyone.”

Actually, yes it did. In fact it killed and maimed tens of thousands. And as an aside, I don’t like the snowflakes. But who the hell are you to arrange their lives to suit you? Or maybe you mean it’s the US governments job to parent them, to make them into the way they should be? To create a new soviet man? I think I missed the social engineering amendment.

So I’ll just skip over the childish concept of “government as parent” that you love so much, and ask you if the military discipline you mention would come from a government that is pushing homosexuality, trannys, women in the infantry, breast feeding moms, etc?
Yeahhhh... a few years living as a child of the US Govt, that’ll make a man out of you. lol


52 posted on 06/07/2016 9:24:56 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree because there is already a drive afoot to have women register for selective service to eliminate the potential discrimination that could be caused by a “transgender” feeling like a woman, but being prosecuted for not registering since they have an xy chromosome set.

Eliminate the registration and you eliminate the potential conflict as well as take a very minor step toward downsizing federal government.


53 posted on 06/07/2016 9:34:10 AM PDT by reed13k
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To: Theodore R.

Rand knows about their plans for you and yours and is trying to protect you from it.


54 posted on 06/07/2016 9:35:24 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Wisdom is doing due diligence before forming an opinion)
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To: Pelham

What exactly makes conscription patriotic?


55 posted on 06/07/2016 9:36:25 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Wisdom is doing due diligence before forming an opinion)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Even in W.W.II there was a draft.

From Wiki

"By 1942, the SSS moved away from administrative selection by its more than 4,000 local boards to a system of lottery selection. Rather than filling quotas by local selection, the boards now ensured proper processing of men selected by the lottery.[19] On December 5, 1942, a presidential executive order changed the age range for the draft from 18–45 to 18–35, and ended voluntary enlistment."

WWII was (so far) the only US war in which conscription became the only source of enlistment.

56 posted on 06/07/2016 10:03:26 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Pelham

“You can accuse a libertarian of patriotism but you’ll rarely have enough evidence to convict one.”

This is FANTASTIC.


57 posted on 06/07/2016 10:04:11 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: DesertRhino

Exactly as I meant...but didn’t say well...people would be lining up to fight.


58 posted on 06/07/2016 10:04:46 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

‘The Muhammad Ali Voluntary Service Act’

But he didn’t volunteer.


59 posted on 06/07/2016 10:11:27 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The age of Big Data has made Selective Service obsolete.


60 posted on 06/07/2016 10:13:24 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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