Rangel/Hollings for MANDATORY Military Service, INCLUDING women!

Some countries (like Israel and Greece) require by law that their citizens serve a term in their armed forces. This process is generally known as conscription , or colloquially in the US as " the draft ".

Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) introduced Senate Bill S.89 to end our volunteer army and establish compulsory military service for two years. The TITLE of the bill reads: A bill to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.



Section 2 states who shall serve:



SEC. 2. NATIONAL SERVICE OBLIGATION.
(a) OBLIGATION FOR YOUNG PERSONS- It is the obligation of every citizen of the United States, and every other person residing in the United States, who is between the ages of 18 and 26 to perform a period of national service as prescribed in this Act unless exempted under the provisions of this Act.



Read the text of Senate Bill 89 here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.89



The bill changes the Selective Service Act and has women drafted for the first time in our Nation's history:

SEC. 10. REGISTRATION OF FEMALES UNDER THE MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT.

(a) REGISTRATION REQUIRED- Section 3(a) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. 453(a)) is amended--

(1) by striking `male' both places it appears;

(2) by inserting `or herself' after `himself'; and

(3) by striking `he' and inserting `the person'.

(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT- Section 16(a) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 466(a)) is amended by striking `men' and inserting `persons'.





Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) introduced an exact duplicate measure in the House of Representatives. Read Rangel's H.R. 163 here:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.00163



The title and text of his legislation is a 100% duplication of S.89 including the conscription of women into two years of mandatory service in the military. As does S.89, his bill amends the current registration and induction authority of the Military Selective Service Act.



Representative Rangel's legislation has 13 co-sponsors:



COSPONSORS(13), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:

Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 1/7/2003 [HI-1]
Rep Brown, Corrine - 1/28/2003 [FL-3]

Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 1/28/2003 [MO-1]
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 1/7/2003 [MI-14]

Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 1/28/2003 [MD-7]
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 1/28/2003 [FL-23]

Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 1/28/2003 [TX-18]
Rep Lewis, John - 1/7/2003 [GA-5]

Rep McDermott, Jim - 1/7/2003 [WA-7]
Rep Moran, James P. - 1/28/2003 [VA-8]

Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes - 1/28/2003 [DC]
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 1/7/2003 [CA-13]

Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. - 1/28/2003 [NY-12]


SEC. 11. RELATION OF ACT TO REGISTRATION AND INDUCTION AUTHORITY OF MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT.
(a) REGISTRATION- Section 4 of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 454) is amended by inserting after subsection (g) the following new subsection:

`(h) This section does not apply with respect to the induction of persons into the Armed Forces pursuant to the Universal National Service Act of 2003.'

(b) INDUCTION- Section 17(c) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 467(c)) is amended by striking `now or hereafter' and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting `inducted pursuant to the Universal National Service Act of 2003.'

I guess that old Fritz Hollings doesn't want to get re elected. What a dumbass!!!!!

Not to mention some of the most notorious "left-wing Democrats" whose names graze -- er, grace the House version of this bill, a few of whom (i.e. chief sponsor Rangel, co-sponsor Conyers), I noticed, are part of the Congressional Black Caucus. To say nothing of Rangel and Conyers being RIAA stooges . . .

But for the historical record, one early attempt at mandatory conscription led to perhaps one of the most violent moments in American history (other than war itself): the New York draft riots of 1863, during the middle of the Civil War.

"You!

You are look about the right age to be drafted. Does that even bother you? There was a sign at Jonestown behind Jim Jones' dead body and it said "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Which would you rather sacrifice your hot car or your life?

Die for oil, sucker.

Born on the firecracker fourth of july raised on football and MTV, never felt what its like to have to fight to stay free. Vietnam just a time life book memory. The mask is off again this time nobody cares but you can't keep dancing if your legs are blown away.

Die for oil, sucker."
-Jello Biafra Die for oil, sucker (Higher Octane Version)

Don't blame the liberals for the actions of the DNC, we're all the way over here on the left, they're sitting on their fat butts over in the middle some place.

Serve your country, die or be crippled for life, then be forgotten. No wait, die and be remembered, be crippled and forgotten. Thanks for nothing.