Posted by John Dias in Fact: Only men are required to register for the draft. Male citizens and resident aliens ages 18-25 must register. Men with disabilities must register if they can reasonably leave their homes and move independently. “Only sons,” “the last son to carry the name,” and “sole surviving sons” must register as well. The fact that a man is the only child or only son does not exempt him unless he survives one who dies in military duty. Men who do not register can be denied federal student loans, grants and other public benefits (even driving privileges in some states). Women are exempt from this law. The Vietnam Memorial has 58,000 male names and 8 female names.
Myth: “Men make war.”
Fact: Both sexes make war. Women have contributed as much to war as they have to science, medicine, literature and everything else. Women have supported wars at nearly the same rate men have (76% of women and 87% of men supported the Gulf War invasion). Women leaders have also supported wars. Women have sat on draft boards. Women even publicly shamed men who refused to go to war by giving them a white feather as a sign of their unmanliness during the White Feather Campaign.
You go brother. You must also register if you hope to gain federal employment; though in my case useless exercise as I am a diabetic.
Hello, my name is Lakisha. I am shocked at what I came across, yet see how true to the fact it is. I am so sorry for the injustice that the men have to go through. It is now safe for me to say that the woman aren’t the only ones suffering and struggling to make a change for a better, healthier equal opportunity in life awareness. You should know that I support your cause, and may God bless your national affairs in serving an active role for the men of the present past and future.
I recently enrolled for college and applied for fed financial aid.I just recieved a letter stating that i did not register for selective service,therefor i cannot recieve fed funding.I registered in 1984 when i went through a government sponsored employment training program.The selective service shows no record of such registeration.What can i do. HELP,i’m stuck in government muck!
Someday, maybe we will all realize that both men and women are equally impacted by what happens to the other. Where one is denied, harmed, treated with less than respect, fairness or equity, so it is that person’s entire family, community, nation that suffers. We have been far too focused on “individual” rights (and mostly concerning property) that we have lost sight of what is good or just or fair for all of us. May we one day come to value a world where we strive to have sons and daughters that bear equal responsibilities and have equal opportunities. It is up to us to create it, through reasonable dialogue — like this. Well done NCF
Humans still practice the rites of human sacrifice. War is the current way to hold these rites. We hear it each Memorial Day as each sadistic nation talks about the sacrifices of their dead soldiers.
The Selective Service System is the current priests who select those to sacrifice, assuming there are not enough “paid volunteers”, selecting only males, leaving the female womb to produce more members for the State to use in more sacrificial rites.
The 13th amendment to the US Constitution:
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
Yes, women want equality for the benefits of society and want to be princesses with no responsiblity of the negative aspects of society, so they don’t have to register for the draft. The Selective Service system is involuntary servitude. Again, men get the shaft and women get the ‘choice’ of playing soldier or not. Why are women so entitled in the USA? Women have the choice of motherhood (abortion), but men don’t have the ‘choice’ of opting out of fatherhood. Men don’t even have the right to save their own child from abortion. When will men have equal rights in the USA? When??????!!!!
This is an excellent site, but is far too light on women. Women in the Anglosphere are active oppressors of men, not allies, friends or whatever. This needs to be hammered home at every opportunity.
I have two sons and no daughters.
Why should I lose my only children to war while other mothers get to keep their “female” daughters safe?
The selective service is not only unconstutional, from everything i’ve been reading, but discriminatory as well.
What kind of mother would i be if I accepted government money (college financial aid) in exchange for the life of both my sons?
What about the sons of congressmen and senators? Have they signed up for selective service? Probably not. Especially since we all know the vast majority of them don’t even sign up for military service.
Mr. government official:
Keep your rotten, filthy, stinking money!
I’ll pay for my own sons’ education.
Yes, this is another issue which has been overlooked. More importantly is when they never come home.
OK, let’s get on our feet and stop the sob stories. Have you not noticed that the ‘groups’ that enjoy political, social, and economic advantage are those who are solidly organized and fanatically dedicated to their ideals? Organize-put together a platform-get someone out front (media) and tell those morons in Congress and most other places We are THE minority to be dealt with and move as one voice, one body; vote as one. What are we waiting for?
Women only seem to demand equality when it’s to their advantage to do so and when they stand to gain. How ironic for feminists to demand equal representation in government but not on the battlefield. Why not require them to shoulder an equal share of responsibility in exchange for granting them equal rights? If women demand equality, why shouldn’t they do everything equally. Why do they just want to take what’s good and leave the bad stuff for the men to do? Why do they think they should get to pick and choose?
I am a mother of three daughter 19yrs., and two sons 17yrs. and 9yrs. I have to say that i have never been a fan of the selective service. Why must I sacrafice my sons. One day they are going to be called upon to serve this country.But I pray that before that happens they grow too old to serve…enough sacraficing our children!
OK lets call it what it is “THE DRAFT”, and men should be insulted by the forms in the post office making you sign up, The cover is plainly an insult to men.