Congress: Give Us Your Sons For The Draft

The new NDAA makes conscription easier (for the government)

“War is Hell”-William Tecumseh Sherman

"War is a Racket”- General Smedley D. Butler

“You have a right, not to be killed…” - The Clash

I grew up in a military family. When I was eighteen I was told that I had to register for Selective Service, the draft. It was the law I was informed. So I registered.

Thankfully I grew up during mostly peacetime, so the draft wasn’t something with which I was ever terribly concerned.

I’m concerned about it now though. I have a teenage son and the folks at The State Department, The White House, and NATO headquarters all seem itching to take the limited regional conflict in the Ukraine to the next level. Congress has now made things easier for this lot with the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which among many other things will automatically register men for the draft when they turn eighteen. At least before one had to do it oneself.

What’s more, it was the supposedly “small government” party, the Republicans, who voted it through almost unanimously.

A key reason for the broad conservative support for the bill, which now goes to the Senate, is that the new NDAA is chock full of anti DEI stuff. Generally this is a good thing. “Diversity Equity, and Inclusion” programs are little more that efforts to institutionalize neo-racism, neo-sexism, and other forms of discrimination. DEI is horrible stuff for societies (as we’ve seen) and dangerous for a military that is supposed to be focused on military things, not social engineering. Wokism, really cultural Marxism (I know some people get upset by that term but that is what DEI/wokism is all about) has no business in our military. So we understand why some Republican members of Congress are so enthused with the legislation.

Plus there is a pay raise for the military which works well for representatives at home.

But the cost was the institution of an auto-draft registry? (In addition to the almost $1 TRILLION in taxpayer dollars.)

If there is one thing every human has the right to it is the right to life. The idea that a government, and consider the people making decisions in government these days, would have the ability to extract you from your life and FORCE you to fight in a war where you might get killed is absurd. It is fundamentally un-American. And Congress just made this easier.