House Passes NDAA With Registing Men For Draft

The House passed a Large Defense Bill that included a Provision that would Automatically Enroll young Men between the age of 18 and 25 for the Selective Service.

The House's version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), would authorize $895 billion in Military spending, passed by a Vote of 217-199.

It's unlikely to be picked up by the Democrat-controlled Senate, because of numerous Amendments regarding: Abortion, Diversity efforts, and Transgender Medical Treatments. The Selective Service Provision, though, is part of an effort to keep the Framework for Military Conscription in place, even though the Draft ended in 1975.

Automatic Registration would replace the coming-of-age Tradition that All 18-year-old Male U.S. Citizens experience when they get a Card in the Mail informing them that they're required under Threat of Criminal Penalties to Register for the Selective Service. Supporters of the Legislation framed it as a more Efficient and Cost-Effective method.

"By using available federal databases, the [Selective Service] agency will be able to register all of the individuals required and thus help ensure that any future military draft is fair and equitable," Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D–PA, 6th District) said on the House floor. "This will also allow us to rededicate resources—basically that means money—towards reading readiness and towards mobilization… rather than towards education and advertising campaigns driven to register people."

The unspoken effect would be Removing Young Men's choice to engage in Civil Disobedience. Under theoretical Penalty of Five years Imprisonment and Eventually up to $250,000 in Fines.

While there have only been 14 Convictions for Selective Service refusing, and none since 1986, those 100,000 or so young men per year who Disobey Washington's Orders are typically barred from working Government Jobs, receiving Student Loans, and in around 40 States, obtaining a Driver's License.

There is a growing Centrist Consensus among Liberals and Hawkish Conservatives on expanding the Selective Service. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), for example, is fighting for the Right of Women to be Conscripted and argues that the Selective Service is an example of overt Sex Discrimination.

"Conscription of any kind contravenes any constitution that professes to guarantee individual liberties," Fred Etcheverry wrote in Reason in 1972.

"Otherwise, what is to prevent conscription from being the twelve months Senator Taft feared or the two years we now have, the four years of the National Service Act Bill, or forever? If conscription is limited to an emergency, then who decides what is an emergency? Is ten percent unemployment a sufficient enough emergency to warrant conscription?"









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