Ladies - Feeling the Draft?

Your turn to 'sacrifice for your country' is up next.

Next up, Bob Greenslade. We met during my KSFO/San Francisco days (1990’s). Over the years, I discovered not many have the working knowledge of the US Constitution Bob does. His comments are invariably spot on .

BW

In my opinion, it is not a coincidence that this is happening now. Congress knows or senses that war is on the horizon and personal will be needed. All this signals that a military draft is coming.

Under the latest National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), not only will men aged 18 to 26 be automatically registered for selective service, but an amendment also proposes mandatory draft registration for women.

The Fiscal Year 2025 (NDAA) version passed by the House of Representatives is distinct from the version advanced by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war (and there no exceptions by making up names and calling it something different like a conflict). The last time was during WW2 after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Framers of the Constitution did that as a safeguard to make sure a president, who is Commander-in Chief of the US military forces, could not facilitate war. Unfortunately, these safeguards have not stopped the military from being sent to places like Korea and Vietnam, to name a few, when neither country attacked or declared war on the US.

Note: A president does have the power to use and move the military to protect the US and its military when there is an act of war (declared or undeclared) like Pearl Harbor prior to Congress acting because the Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Congress and the President have been complicit since WW2 in all this, and their usurpations and failures to abide by the Constitution will continue.

I am posting this on Father's Day because American families have lost too many fathers because of this, and maybe people will demand a stop to it so fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters will not die in the future when the US has not been attacked by a foreign power or the people thereof.

Note: The preamble to the Constitution uses the term "provide for the common defense" as one of the reasons for the establishment of the Constitution for the United States of America.

Bob Greenslade

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