I walked into a local post office to send a
stuffed animal to my newborn niece. There, I found a
brochure that explained how males who are 18-25 are required
to register for the Selective Service System. Inside, under
the question "Will I Be Drafted?" the brochure said, "The
fact that a man is required to register does not mean that
he will be drafted. No one has been drafted since 1973. No
one can be drafted into the military unless ordered by
the Congress and the President. A draft would most
likely occur only in the event of war or national
emergency." [emphasis mine].We are constantly bombarded
with propaganda that we are a free country with equal
opportunity and treatment regardless of race, religion, sex
blah, blah, blah. You are only free if you have choice. The
sexes are only equal if they have equal freedoms and
responsibilities.
If you can be ordered to do something that puts
your life in danger, you are not free. Why are only men ages
18-25 required to register with the Selective Service
System? Why not women? Why are women free from a possible
order to fight for freedom when they are obviously the only
sex that is free from threat of being forced to fight?
Shouldn't those who are free be the ones who have to defend
their freedom?
Forcing ONLY young men to register with the Selective
Service System is clear evidence that our society considers
males second-class citizens whose lives are less important
than female lives. Men can be required to sacrifice their
freedom and also their lives by Congress and the President.
Women cannot; they are protected.
If males do not register they will pay a price. The
Selective Service System web site (http://www.sss.gov/reg5.htm)
says that males who fail to register can be fined up to
$250,000 and sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison
or both. The Soloman Amendment (1982) made registration a
requirement for Federal Student Categories of Financial Aid
which include: Pell Grants, Supplemental Education
Opportunity Grants, College Work-Study, National Direct
Student Loans, Guaranteed Student/Plus Loans, and Some State
Student Incentive Grant Programs. Women can have all these
things without the threat of being drafted.
The Thurmond Amendment (1985) requires registration to be
eligible for Federal jobs in the Executive Branch. The same
is true for most jobs in the Federal Government and the
postal service, including temporary and summer jobs. Women
can have the jobs without the threat of being drafted.
Eligibility for job training under the Workforce
Investment Act is only available to males if they are
registered for the Selective Service. Registration is also
required of immigrant males seeking US citizenship. Women
can get the training without the threat of being drafted.
In addition, many states, local government agencies,
police departments and state bar examiners also require
registration for males. Women can have these opportunities
without the threat of being drafted.
Where is the equal opportunity and equal responsibility
in the Selective Service? Only men have to sacrifice their
freedom and possibly their lives to have all those
government benefits. Women get it all for free.
Is it any surprise that on average women outlive men by
seven years and men commit suicide at four times the rate of
women? Is it any surprise that males are enraged? No
rational male can reconcile the Selective Service, which
should be called Selective Tyranny and Genocide Against
Males, with the notion that we live in a free country with
equality of the sexes.
My niece was lucky to be born a girl because she is free.
Male babies are born into slavery.
Chip Gibbons created and maintains a Blog called
"The Binary Circumstance."
Email:
BiCircumstance
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