Charlie "Workers World Party" Rangel wants to draft yo mama!

FrontPageMag.Com ^ | November 20, 2006 | Ben Johnson

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Charlie Rangel Wants to Draft Your Daughter (And Your Mom, Too) By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | November 20, 2006

I HATE TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO, but….

I warned in these pages almost four years ago that Rep. Charlie Rangel’s efforts reinstate the draft could result in women facing conscription. Now Rangel has removed all doubt that this is his intention.

The Washington Post reports Rangel has vowed to re-introduce “a plan to mandate military service for men and women between age 18 and 42” this year, after he takes over as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.

Rangel introduced a draft measure in 2002, in a transparent attempt to hijack President Bush’s foreign policy prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Although that bill did not specifically include women, I noted President Clinton’s treatment of the military as an instrument of feminist social policy may leave women eligible for mandatory busfare to Parris Island. Clinton removed the “risk rule,” trained females for aviation combat, and allowed eight women to receive training in Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Target Acquisition squadrons (RSTAs), which one general declared “directly meets the Department of Defense definition of 'direct ground combat.'” This and other PC tinkering undercut the 1981 Rockster v. Goldberg decision, which barred women from being drafted precisely because they were ineligible for such combat roles.

Now Charlie Rangel proposes to legally remove this barrier, apparently under the pretense that the most effective weapon the Army is lacking in its war against global terrorism is middle-aged housewives.

Of course, Rangel’s proposal has nothing to do with military strategy, much less the effectiveness of the armed forces, which has never been a leftist cause. Since changing to an All-Volunteer Force – under President Nixon – retention rates of first-time enlistees have increased 500 percent. The Reagan administration estimated returning to the draft would add another $1 billion to an already busted budget – more than $2 billion when adjusted for inflation. (Those presently campaigning as “Reagan Republicans” but who favor national service plans may wish to revisit this statistic.) Costs will soar with an ever-replenishing supply of untrained youth to drill and equip. Unable to reject underqualified applicants, conscription would fulfill Rangel’s vision of the military as a refuge for disproportionately poor, minority, and uneducated youth. With no desire to stay in the military and every incentive to be discharged, breaches of discipline – even fragging – are likely to rise. And all these considerations overlook the gross individual liberty embodied in a peacetime draft called in lieu of a looming conventional war.

Luckily, this bill will never be implemented, and Rangel makes little illusions about his cynical motivations in tendering the plan. This is his attempt to erode support for a war in progress, as he forthrightly admits. “There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way,” Rangel told CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday. He made similar promises in 2002, a theme picked up by Michael’s Moore’s Farenheit 9/11.

This bill is not a serious policy alternative. The president has stated his opposition to reviving the draft, and the Democratic Left lacks a veto-proof majority. This is an attempt to revive the blatant fearmongering that surfaced in the 2004 campaign, when such Democratic heavyweights as Harold Ford Jr., Howard Dean, and Max Cleland insisted President Bush would reinstate the draft in his second term. Dean told the first-time voters of Brown University, “I think that George Bush is certainly going to have a draft if he goes into a second term, and any young person that doesn't want to go to Iraq might think twice about voting for him.” The Bush-is-Hitler Left spread the rumor throughout the fever swamp blogosphere. So demagogic was this attack that when the Republican Congress brought the draft bill up for a vote in October 2004, Rangel himself voted against it. Only two leftist Democratic Congressmen voted in favor of reviving the “blood tax”: Pete Stark and longtime draft advocate Jack Murtha.

Rangel hopes to whip up fears among less-informed younger voters that President Bush’s Iraq War will rip young mothers – or not-so-young-mothers – from their homes and family responsibilities; force them to fight Sunni “insurgents,” al-Qaeda fighters, and al-Sadr loyalists in Fallujah; and subject them, upon capture, to vicious sexual assault and/or beheading. (These are the very benefits the Left is otherwise assuring women are their rights and privileges under the Constitution.)

It is the lowest form of cynical politics, transparently manipulating U.S. troops for partisan advantage: a dishonest charge to lay at the feet of one’s political foes and a prescription for national disaster if sincerely enacted. In this, it perfectly reflects the spirit of the Left and much of the incoming Congressional leadership.

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Ben Johnson is Managing Editor of FrontPage Magazine and author of the book 57 Varieties of Radical Causes: Teresa Heinz Kerry's Charitable Giving.

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Charlie Rangel seen here at a pro-Kim Jong Il / pro-North Korea Workers World Party / Troops Out Now "anti-war" demonstration in Harlem, New York, on March 19, 2005, the 2nd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. The photo appears on the website of the Workers World Party (workers.org).
http://www.workers.org/march19/slides/14-rangel.html

The following is an excerpt from a "Dear Comrade" letter former Workers World Party chair, Sam Marcy, sent to Kim Jong Il shortly after the death of Kim's father, Kim Il Sung.

From the website of the Workers World Party (workers.org) :

"On July 9 (1994), Workers World Party Chairperson Sam Marcy sent the following statement to Comrade Kim Jong Il, the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea and the State Funeral Committee of President Kim Il Sung." :

"Dear Comrade Kim Jong Il... Comrade Kim Il Sung devoted his whole life to the Korean people's struggle for national self-determination and the international working-class struggle for socialist emancipation. With his leadership, the Korean people defeated the Japanese colonial occupation and soon after brought about the first defeat of the U.S. imperialist military machine...

Workers World Party values our close, comradely relations with the Workers Party of Korea very highly. We are proud to have known Kim Il Sung as a great leader and a comrade in the international communist movement. And it is with the most profound sense of loss that we mark his passing. Yet it is also with the greatest revolutionary optimism that we are confident that Comrade Kim Il Sung's legacy will live on with your efforts to win new victories for the Korean people....

With comradely solidarity, Sam Marcy Chairperson, Workers World Party":
http://www.workers.org/marcy/cd/sam94/1994html/s940721.htm

The photo at the top of democrat, soon-to-be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel appeared in this set of photos taken at the Workers World Party / Troops Out Now event. Also in this set of photos, to the immediate left of Rangel's, is a photo of terrorist and commie attorney, Lynn Stewart, seated next to the founder of the WWP-linked International Action Center as well as attorney for Saddam Husein, Ramsey Clark.

http://www.workers.org/march19/index2.html

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"Hey cutie, come here often?"

[DJ Taylor]

Hey, the inmates have just taken over the asylum. Stranger things than this are going to happen.

[Hawk1976]

Yo Mama? Ok, but I thought he said Yo Yo Ma.

[Charles Henrickson]

I WANT YOU
DRAFTED

[Riverman94610]

Rangel is in the Workers World Party?Thats pathetic!I used to hate these guys and clones like Socialist Workers Party,Young Socialist Alliance,etc.
Even people in far Left groups like SDS hated those clowns in the Sixties.How could they suck up to the Soviets and outright fascists like Kim Il Sung?
To be perfectly honest,if the Left had some integrity,I might have joined one of their groups in my youth cause I WAS against the Vietnam War and for civil rights.Yet I never felt these people running the Left.Cold and opportunistic.Hayden,Rubin,Cleaver,etc.Seen them up close. Scary cats.
Of course,the Right wasn't much better.The John Birch Society?Tried them.VERY disappointed.Too much racism back then.I liked Buckley a lot.Never missed Firing Line.Yet he seemed a litte effete and affected like he was trying to impress some people in academia.

[Normal4me]

Charlie Rangle wants to have the government sentence your children to death without their say so for wars he won't support. Go figure.

[exposing_the_left]

Sorry, bro. I'm still kind of new here. I misunderstood the category.
LC (exposing the left)

[Leo Carpathian]

Clintonistas decimated US military and now they want draft?

fffFReeePeeee!

[I_Like_Spam]

Charlie Rangle wants to have the government sentence your children to death without their say so for wars he won't support.

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No, he's just looking to make political hay. The draft came up to a vote a couple of years ago, and even Rangel didn't vote for it.


Mr. Rangel is just hoping to score political points here, with hearings and such on this phony bill that he will never get enough votes to actually pass.

[vpintheak]

Its a Federal Power grab. It is what Wrangel and other communists want. Nothing more, nothing less. I still think this would get monkey stomped if it ever made it out of committee.

[exposing_the_left]

>Rangel is in the Workers World Party?
>Thats pathetic!

No one said he was IN the WWP, rather that he spoke at the podium of their Troops Out Now demonstration on March 19, 2005, the 2nd anniversary of the Iraq war. WWP, of course, is a legal political party that actually runs candidates for president. IMHO they should be outlawed, if not brought up on treason. And Rangel, especially, should be investigated for his ties to these dangerously anti-American groups. That goes for John Conyers and a bunch of others as well.

[smoothsailing]

Kill A Commie For Christ.

Go ahead, flame me.

[Rastus]

He's really a stupid man. I heard him talking about how bad unemployment is in his district, and that's why the kids feel they have to join the military. Well, first of all, Charlie . . . you've been representing that district for 30 years now. As a liberal who believes government is the solution for poverty and unemployment, why is your district still in the toilet? Second of all, if the military is the only way out of your hellhole of a Congressional district, why do you want to take that away from them? Some rich kid wins the lottery ("it ain't me/I ain't no millionaire's son, no"), and that's one less slot for your constituency.

[exposing_the_left]

>Kill A Commie For Christ.
>Go ahead, flame me.

Are you one of those people that enjoy being abused?

[Normal4me]

Yeah, that was the irony I was trying to get across. If the population goes against the draft then the dems can say we are no longer capable of war and we'll all live happily ever after.

[Riverman94610]

Well,he obviously is a sycophant for them.
I don't believe in banning a political group for speech alone.Right wing,Left wing,whatever.
Ridicule and isolation are more Constitutional

[exposing_the_left]

>Yeah, that was the irony I was trying to get across.
>If the population goes against the draft
>then the dems can say we are no longer capable of war
>and we'll all live happily ever after.

That may be what the dopey libs in the party believe or want, but it's hardly what the far left wants. Their aim is to wipe American-style democracies off the face of the Earth. They are anything but anti-war.

[singfreedom]

Several years ago I heard good old Charlie suggest, on FOX News, that we needed to reinstate the draft because the "burden of the war" was falling too heavily on the shoulders of minorities. (Forgive me, I can't remember who the interviewer was, perhaps O'Reilly?) He's trying the same thing now, just changing his reason.

He, like the rest of us, have heard the statistics that more whites, primarily of the middle class, with high school or above credentials, are signing up for the service. He had to punt. Now he's changed his rhetoric.