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Norway to Draft Women Into Armed Forces
The Wall Street Journal ^ | June 16, 2013, 5:14 p.m | ELLEN EMMERENTZE JERVELL

Posted on 06/19/2013 10:27:41 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior

The small Scandinavian nation said it would be the first nation in NATO to draft females into military service after decades of confining its conscription activities to men.

"We are sending a signal that, once again, Norway's thinking ahead when it comes to equality, Norway's foreign minister, Espen Barth Eide said in an interview Sunday, two days after the parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of a new law mandating the drafting of women. About 10% of Norway's military is currently female, but the goal is to take the number to 20% by 2020.

Norway has long considered itself a forerunner in equality issues, enforcing quotas for female representation on corporate boards and offering generous paternity leave. Women make up about half of those holding political office.

Laila Gustavsen, a member of the Labor party and on the foreign policy and defense committee in Norwegian parliament, said the law sends the necessary message that "both men and women must have rights and duties" and that "the military has in many ways been the last part of society that has been dominated by men."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conscription; draft; feminazism; feminism; idiocy; military; norway; women
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To: Xenophon450

You’re right, but then you cannot have equality under the law while neglecting to apply it to certain areas of society where it would be impractical. That is simply a false mirage of equality.

So, that is why I applaud this move. Feminists want us to pretend that they are equal in every area, so let them prove it by forcing them to take up the same responsibilities that men have to shoulder. They won’t be able to, so they will be forced to either try and fail, or admit that they overreached and perhaps let us find a more reasonable middle ground.


21 posted on 06/19/2013 11:13:36 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Freelance Warrior

They should fit in nicely with the homosexuals and Muslims Norway has opted to allow into their military.


22 posted on 06/19/2013 11:13:41 AM PDT by By and By (Dime Store New Dealers are Milquetoast and Liberal)
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To: blueunicorn6

I’d take it one step further than you. Let’s make voting contingent on registering for Selective Service, for both men and women. Don’t register? Then you don’t get a vote.


23 posted on 06/19/2013 11:17:12 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Freelance Warrior

Its good to know that as they watch their female soldiers being slaughtered in hand to hand combat, dragged off to be raped or cowering in terror as the enemy approaches, Norwegians can at least have the satisfaction of knowing they treated women equally.


24 posted on 06/19/2013 11:18:20 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
Do you really think that's the Norway's army experience?
25 posted on 06/19/2013 11:27:52 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Freelance Warrior
The small Scandinavian nation said it would be the first nation in NATO to draft females into military service.

A couple of observations:

Let's be honest: NATO is the UN/NWO military arm.

The UN is trying to figure out how to have its authority undercut American authority and ram through its plans for enforcement of a multi-national draft for the entire West -- including the USA -- including our young ladies.

26 posted on 06/19/2013 11:33:10 AM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: Covenantor
Norway has had over 900 casualties in Afghanistan including 10 KIA. Considering their compliment in that country is only around 600, I'd say you'd want to rethink your statement. Norway has been a strong supporter of the War on Terror.


27 posted on 06/19/2013 11:39:37 AM PDT by stormer
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To: cdcdawg

“...Norway has armed forces. Who knew?”

On May 8th, 1945, the German Military commander in Norway bragged that while he had been ordered to surrender “no one had dared invade Norway”. That country was taken early and easily by Germany and held until the very end of the war. Norway did provide some worthy recruits for the SS and the German Army.


28 posted on 06/19/2013 11:41:22 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It ain't the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog...

29 posted on 06/19/2013 11:47:26 AM PDT by stormer
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To: Freelance Warrior
About 10% of Norway's military is currently female, but the goal is to take the number to 20% by 2020.

If equality is the goal, should't they be striving to take the number to about 53% female? (There are more women than men in the world.)

30 posted on 06/19/2013 11:50:13 AM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Freelance Warrior
but the goal is to take the number to 20% by 2020

If it's 'equality trumps everything' going by the preceding statements I did not quote above, shouldn't that be much closer to 50% rather than 20%, or do females only constitute 20% of the Norwegian populace?

PC idiocy bites its own ass again. Well done!

31 posted on 06/19/2013 11:53:07 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: Boogieman

Has a little Robert Heinlein feel to it.


32 posted on 06/19/2013 12:07:54 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: stormer

Is that Audie Murphy?


33 posted on 06/19/2013 12:10:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: stormer
I've never heard that Audie Murphy couldn't handle the physical expectations of a male soldier. My brother was his height and served in the Navy and did fine as well.

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34 posted on 06/19/2013 12:16:35 PM PDT by ansel12 (Social liberalism/libertarianism, empowers, creates and imports, and breeds, economic liberals.)
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To: cdcdawg; Lazamataz

Nordic women.... Hmmm!

Laz?


35 posted on 06/19/2013 12:16:49 PM PDT by WomBom ("I read Free Republic for the pictures")
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To: EEGator

Yes.


36 posted on 06/19/2013 12:36:22 PM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer

I just read his citation for his CMH...amazing.


37 posted on 06/19/2013 12:38:28 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Monterrosa-24

>> Norway did provide some worthy recruits for the SS and the German Army <<

I would hesitate to use the term “worthy” when describing members of the SS, be they Norwegian, German or whatever.

But anyway, the King of Norway and many of his anti-Nazi fellow countrymen escaped to the UK during WW2, where they carried on an active resistance to the Germans.

In 1944. forces from this “free Norwegian” contingent took part in the Normandy invasion. That’s why you’ll see the Norwegian flag among the display of allied flags at the Normandy museum.

Also, Norwegian guerillas were key in destroying German heavy-water production at Vemork, Norway. It’s conceivable that without their action, Germany could have succeeded in the development of a nuclear weapon.


38 posted on 06/19/2013 12:41:22 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: ansel12

My point is that size and strength aren’t the only characteristics that make an effective warrior.


39 posted on 06/19/2013 12:50:41 PM PDT by stormer
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To: EEGator

Psychopathic badassery. He was a bit “troubled” before the war; imagine what he was like after...


40 posted on 06/19/2013 12:52:00 PM PDT by stormer
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