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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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1 posted on 06/19/2013 10:27:41 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior
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2 posted on 06/19/2013 10:28:26 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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To: Freelance Warrior

When you are looking for someone to defend your country, you have to stop worrying about equality and go for the best.

Women aint it.


3 posted on 06/19/2013 10:29:12 AM PDT by Venturer
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The most shocking thing about this is the revelation that Norway has armed forces. Who knew?


4 posted on 06/19/2013 10:31:46 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Equality above all else. It seems that equality is considered the pinnacle of virtue now days. The highest good.

Talking to my peers, they just cannot understand that people are inherently unequal, and it is this inherent inequality which makes life so interesting — so vibrant.

I believe that’s why many oppose liberty outright. Liberty reveals the individual’s innate inequality, and that frightens them.

Equality before the law; yes.

But total equality? It is unnatural.


5 posted on 06/19/2013 10:34:57 AM PDT by Xenophon450 (Profit tells the entrepreneur that the consumers approve of his ventures; loss, that they disapprove)
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To: Freelance Warrior

Very effective. Looking at that - I can see the Norwegians intend to defeat the enemy as they laugh themselves to death.


6 posted on 06/19/2013 10:36:20 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Norwegians intend to defeat the enemy as they laugh themselves to death.

Worked well with Hitler...


7 posted on 06/19/2013 10:37:40 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“the military has in many ways been the last part of society that has been dominated by men.”

Great...they can take their place next to our new recruits, Private Licker and Sergeant Noballs...way to go team...you sure know how to weaken a nation. Well Done!


8 posted on 06/19/2013 10:38:43 AM PDT by areukiddingme1 (areukiddingme1 is a synonym for a Retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer and tired of liberal BS.))
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I bet she can do a pull up bar hang for at least 5 seconds.


9 posted on 06/19/2013 10:40:22 AM PDT by EEGator
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Well if you’re going to have a conscript army then you should conscript both men and women


10 posted on 06/19/2013 10:42:16 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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11 posted on 06/19/2013 10:44:29 AM PDT by Freelance Warrior (A Russian.)
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Considering that the only action the Norwegian forces see is as UN Peacekeepers in mostly muzzieland, the women might consider a weekend in Malmo, Sweden to get a reality check.

But hey, at least they got their men liberated from those oppressive macho urinals.


12 posted on 06/19/2013 10:45:49 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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Wow. You’re right, women are equal. I worked at a gym for years. That chick in this picture represents about 2% of females in the world...nice outlier.


13 posted on 06/19/2013 10:50:51 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Freelance Warrior

Why are there men’s and women’s events in high school, college, pros, the Olympics?


14 posted on 06/19/2013 10:52:37 AM PDT by EEGator
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She looks really strong .......... for a girl.


15 posted on 06/19/2013 11:02:08 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: Covenantor

Let’s see how long their draft lasts.


16 posted on 06/19/2013 11:02:37 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Un Pere, Une Mere, C'est elementaire)
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To: EEGator

Hudson: Hey Vazquez have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No, have you?


17 posted on 06/19/2013 11:03:04 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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Coming here, soon.

Guess which group(s) will be determining whether YOUR daughter (daughter of a tea partier) gets frontline combat or some cushy desk job as a REMF.


18 posted on 06/19/2013 11:03:17 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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Bring it here with no exemptions. It’s time women had to start worrying about the consequences of how they vote.

“Grandma thought the Democrats were right as rain,
Then she took a bullet in the brain.

Grandma didn’t worry about those defense cuts
Until she took a bayonet in her guts.

Grandma thought the Democrats would help her get ahead
And then a grenade took off her head.”


19 posted on 06/19/2013 11:03:44 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Resolute Conservative

Drake:”You’re just too bad Vasquez.”


20 posted on 06/19/2013 11:04:44 AM PDT by EEGator
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