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Could the #SelectiveService System actually get anyone to the military induction points within 6 months? Probably not. Assume that the draft would only include the people who have been required to register: males between 18 and 26. Then imagine the lawsuits that would immediately get filed:

Equal protection claims based on discrimination of women,

First amendment claims for people opposed to war without a religious or moral basis,

Equal protection claims by transgender folks.

@peterjriley2024
#draft #SelectiveService I'm not seeing much online about the automatic draft enrollment legislation just enacted. Very sobering for a person of my generation. We know there won't be many exemptions granted, and remember how the US lost so many grad students in what we now call STEM fields.

Another article about it –

"Automatic registration into the U.S. military #draft pool for eligible men is slated to begin in December, following efforts from lawmakers and the selective service agency to streamline the previous self-registration process."

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#USA #US #USmilitary #SelectiveService #TheDraft
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https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/04/08/automatic-registration-for-us-military-draft-eligible-men-to-begin-in-december/

CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP RAISES ALARMS OVER AUTOMATIC DRAFT REGISTRATION IMPACT ON TRANSGENDER AND IMMIGRANT YOUTH

Civil rights groups warn automatic draft registration using government data could misidentify transgender and immigrant youth, raising privacy and fairness concerns.

#DraftRegistration, #CivilRights, #TransgenderYouth, #ImmigrantYouth, #SelectiveService

https://newsletter.tf/automatic-draft-registration-concerns-transgender-immigrant-youth/

New automatic draft registration plans could wrongly list transgender and immigrant youth. This is a concern for civil rights groups worried about data errors.

#DraftRegistration, #CivilRights, #TransgenderYouth, #ImmigrantYouth, #SelectiveService
https://newsletter.tf/automatic-draft-registration-concerns-transgender-immigrant-youth/

World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]

And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940

#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic

World War Two was the archetypal good war. And ask any liberal, FDR was the archetypal good president. But don't ask Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie -- The Almanac Singers.[1] They released Songs for John Doe[2] in 1941 and it's full of anti-draft, anti-war, anti-FDR songs, inspired by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the first peacetime conscription law ever enacted in the US.[3]

And are you afraid to fight, Billy boy, Billy boy?
Are you afraid to fight, charming Billy?
You can comе around to me when England's a democracy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Almanac_Singers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_for_John_Doe

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940

#ProtestSongs #AlmanacSingers #BillyBoy #WorldWar2 #WW2 #Conscription #SelectiveService #WoodyGuthrie #PeteSeeger #FolkMusic

CPAC moms say Barron Trump should serve in the military if his dad puts boots in Iran #SendBarron #SendKai #BootsOnTheGround #Iran #Privilege #SelectiveService www.rawstory.com/iran-barron-...

CPAC moms say Barron Trump sho...

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@draft_resistance_news/116210549939179518

A very important post, coming from the broadest-based coalition in opposition to the draft in many years.

#MilitaryDraft #Draft #Conscription #MilitaryConscription #MilitaryLaw #USMilitary #YouthRights #SelectiveService #IranWar

March 6, 1967 - Muhammad Ali was ordered by the Selective Service to be inducted into military service. He refused, citing his religious beliefs that precluded him from killing others.
"I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong."
#MuhammadAli #SelectiveService

https://anabaptistworld.org/u-s-defense-bill-calls-for-automatic-draft-registration/

#Conscription #Draft #SelectiveService #Mennonite #Anabaptist #Peace #ConscientiousObjection

Tagging: @MilitaryLawTaskForce @ehasbrouck

Selective Service Repeal Act Reintroduced in the Senate:
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/08/02/selective-service-repeal-act-reintroduced-in-the-senate/

Send a message to Congress:
https://fcnl.quorum.us/campaign/32642/

#war #peace #freedom #conscription #draft #military #selectiveservice

#SelectiveService officially confirms abandonment of any pretense of enforcement of requirement to register for #military #draft:

"As for the referrals on noncompliance to DOJ, we did not share referrals with DOJ on individuals who failed to register with SSS in 2022 and 2023 at the request of DOJ."

Threats of criminal sanctions are empty:

https://hasbrouck.org/draft/compliance.html

Don't want to be drafted? In many states (inc. CO, CT, DC, DE, HI, IL, MN, NV, NY, RI, UT, VA) you can opt out of automatically being registered with #SelectiveService
for #military #draft #conscription by asking for “X” gender marker (instead of "M") on your driver’s license:

https://hasbrouck.org/draft/advice/gender.html

Senate Armed Services Committee votes on amendments to the NDAA related to #SelectiveService registration and a possible future #military #draft, from committee report:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002742.html

"Playbook for a Military Draft": Report from a military strategy think tank shows why draft registration is important even when an actual draft isn't active or likely:
https://original.antiwar.com/Edward_Hasbrouck/2024/07/07/playbook-for-a-military-draft/

#selectiveservice #military #draft #conscription

Draft bills dead in California but still alive in Congress:

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002737.html

#conscription #war #draft #selectiveservice

"The way to avoid a draft is not to appoint and train draft boards, compile a list of those to be drafted, and automate the system to enable a push-button draft on demand — just as the way to avoid a nuclear war is not to build and deploy nuclear weapons and put them on hair-trigger alert."

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/06/29/rep-houlahan-fails-to-justify-move-toward-a-draft/

#conscription #draft #SelectiveService #war

Rep. Houlahan Fails To Justify Move Toward a Draft: My latest at Antiwar.com: https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2024/06/29/rep-houlahan-fails-to-justify-move-toward-a-draft/ #conscription #draft #SelectiveService #war

Congress debates #women and the draft, but not #war and the draft:

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002735.html

#military #draft #conscription #selectiveservice #NDAA

The House of Representatives passed a measure on Friday automatically registering men aged 18 to 26 for selective service.

It was part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets out the U.S. government’s military and national security priorities over the next fiscal year.

This year's NDAA authorizes $895.2 billion in military spending, a $9 billion increase from fiscal 2024.

#SelectiveService #USPolitics #USArmy #USMilitary #CompulsoryService #TheDraft

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-defense-bill-automatically-registering-men-draft

Congress considers stepped-up registration for #military #draft
("automatic" registration and expansion of #selectiveservice to #women as well as men): https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002734.html