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 Selective Service Registration AKA The Coming Draft

Hi, Bob Barney for The Plain Truth Today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com, and we’re going to talk about a subject today that hits close to home, because I’m a grandfather, and it should hit close to home to anyone who believes in the fairness of the law. We have a case that I don’t think many people are aware of, about males being required to register for the draft, the Selective Service, and it’s a penalty and possible, I guess, prison sentence if you fail to do so, and I do not believe with the latest so-called civil rights of women, where women have, in my opinion today, more rights than the average teenage male, because women have the right to fight if they want to, even if men don’t want them next to them, because they are physically inferior to most men to be in combat, and I don’t think women should be drafted, but at the same time, if you’re going to say that women have every right that a male has, but a male has to go and register for a draft that the women don’t have to do so, that is illegal and unconstitutional, and I’m glad to see that there is actually a court challenge that the Supreme Court will listen to. I’m going to play this little news brief about it, and then we’ll go and talk more about this issue.

It’s just really disturbing to me, and it should be disturbing to you listening to me. The following segment is sponsored by Martin, Harding & Mazzotti. The Supreme Court considered whether to hear a case that involved a legal challenge to the Military Selective Service Act, the federal law that requires all males to register for the draft at the age of 18.

Opponents have claimed that requiring men, but not women, to register is a form of sexdiscrimination. Here to help examine this issue is Rosemarie Vaughan, partner at the law firm of Martin, Harding & Mazzotti. Rosemarie, I’m going to jump right into it.

What exactly are the litigants challenging? Well, the litigants were challenging the Military Selective Service Act, which requires men at the age of 18 to register for the service, but women not to. And so, given where we are in this day and age, it’s one of the only federal statutes that’s still on the books that treats men differently than women. And interestingly enough, this was brought in front of the Supreme Court, and they have decided not to hear this case.

But it was one that obviously is of significance, because it is that one of those few or very last almost federal statute that treats men and women differently. So you just said that the Supreme Court has decided not to hear this case, but this has just come down. Actually, yes.

And that doesn’t mean it’s not a very important issue. The Supreme Court basically decides whether or not a statute is constitutional. That’s what they do.

They wouldn’t rewrite it. They don’t either say whether it’s constitutional or it’s unconstitutional.And I think in this particular case, the justices are like, listen, we would like the legislature to have some more time with this and reexamine the statute and perhaps rewrite it.

So I think they declined hearing the case right now with the hope that the Congress will actually take up the issue. But we have a situation now where women serve in the military just like men do.So times have changed, and it is an antiquated statute.

Absolutely. In your opinion, what is the next step for those who would like to continue to push forchange? Well, I think we have to understand that it’s a congressional action, that this would be a law that would need to be, you know, the Supreme Court only can strike down a law. They can’t write a new one.

So if with regard to facilitating change, along with what the Supreme Court was sort of indicating is to lobby your congresswoman or congressman with regard to the fact that this law should be changed and reflect if we are going to require registration, it needs to be registration across the board just due to someone’s age, especially with women now serving in all sorts of roles in the military, including supportive roles in combat and everything else. So I don’t think it’s not an important issue. I just think it’s one that the Supreme Court said, hey, Congress, why don’t you take a look at this? And then, you know, if it’s not addressed, perhaps next time it comes back around, the Supreme Court would entertain it.

Like always, the Supreme Court is just punting the ball, because this is probably, in my opinion,one of the worst Supreme Courts in American history that absolutely has not in any way read the Constitution and enforced what the Constitution says. With the equal rights of women to men, it is absolutely unconscionable, in my opinion, that the Supreme Court would not listen to or hear a case that is so unconstitutional and so unfair to the males of this country who are treated like, honestly, like second-class citizens today. If you’re a male today in this society, you’re treated pretty poorly.

I have to admit, many women are also treated poorly when it comes to women in sports, when you got men playing against them, and the Supreme Court don’t seem to get involved in that as much as they should as well. I know they’ve had a few decisions that upheld that men can’t be in women’s sports, but there has to be some … This country, I mean this, this country is going to get to a point, and the Bible predicts this, by the way. The Bible predicts that there’s going to come a time when there’s a call to arms and nobody shows up, and I’ll tell you something right now.

I have grandsons. I would not want them to register, no matter what the penalty is. It is absolutely not a fair law.

It’s unconstitutional, and I think it should not go back to Congress. It should be a lawsuit up through the courts and forced the Supreme Court to listen to it because this is the state of … Do you have children, male children? Do you have male grandchildren? Do you really think it’s fair that they have to accept women in every one of their positions? If you believe that, that’s fine, but not when it comes to the draft, and I got news for you. Our politicians, and this includes Donald Trump, we’re getting ourselves in another series of forever wars.

We’ve gone to Venezuela. We’re in a stagmire right now with Iran, and Iran’s winning. We’re going to probably have to put boots on the ground in Iran.

Now we have a president talking about doing a military action with Cuba, and who knows where else around the world, and we have many, many politicians not being honest to you, to me, or anybody else that they actually favor a draft again. I think you’re going to see this morph into a draft of only men. I’m wondering how long the American public, especially American parents and grandparents, are going to allow this discrimination to go on.

First of all, in my opinion, the draft, which the Supreme Court has held to be legal, breaks the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution of the United States. It plainly does, and I know the Supreme Court in World War I, World War II, upheld that it does not break these, but the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, establishing that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens, regardless of their race or previous condition of servitude, and that granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, the 14th Amendment, is prohibited by racial discrimination. It has to do with black people.

I do not disagree with that, but the 15th Amendment prohibits the denial and the right to vote based on race, color, previous condition of servitude, but the 13th Amendment outlaws slavery and servitude, and this is what the draft is. The draft is slavery. You can say, well, they got to pay.

Well, you can, can a landowner go into town, grab about 15, 20 people, and say, you’re going to work on my farm for a dollar an hour, and have no say about it? You must go. It’s like eminent domain of a farm worker or a factory worker. That breaks the 13th Amendment of the Constitution.

The draft is not legal. If you want to make it legal, then make it a part of the Constitution by having an amendment to the Constitution, and the American people should demand it, absolutely demand it. We have allowed our politicians, both Democrat and Republican, to absolutely trash the Constitution, trash the executive branch’s limitations on their power.

These executive actions of all the last past, I don’t know, five presidents at least, have overused executive actions, most of which are unconstitutional. What the president is not a king, George Washington made that clear, and we just, as a people, need to have our voices raised up and refused to follow unconstitutional laws. I’ll be right back.

Bob Barney for The Plain Truth today, brought to you by theplaintruth.com. It’s the place to go to know what is going on in the world, what you should know about it, and what you can do to defend your family against it, like today’s show about the draft and about selective service, how it is unconstitutional, and we, as one news organization, is at least bringing it to the limelight. We are not afraid to point out what is wrong with this country and what is right with this country, and you’ll find that by going to theplaintruth.com, going to these podcasts, theplaintruthtoday.com, and also Your Health Today and the message board, where you can leave your opinions, that’s by going to theplaintruth.com every day, please go there. So I want to finish up the rest of my diatribe here about the draft, and that’s really what this is.

You can say it’s registering for selective service, you can call it any name you want. The politicians, the people who are in control of us now, they’re supposed to be our servants, but they’re called honorable. If you read the Bible, you’d call nobody honorable, number one.

They want to call themselves honorable. They are our servants. We are not their servants, but they are treating us like they’re treating our 18-year-old boys, like slaves, that they have total control and domination over, and it is wrong, and somebody better stand up and start protecting the rights of this country, or they’re going to go down the tubes.

And I got news for you. The reason they’re only using boys right now to register for selective service, because they are going to introduce a draft, and they know that the American people would rebel if women were included. But be on guard, because I’m telling you right now that there are liars in Washington.

The swamp has never been cleaned out by Donald Trump or anybody. They’re absolute damn liars, and women will be drafted, and Democrats themselves want women to be drafted. Here’s another audio about what I’m talking about.

Senate Democrats have added language to the annual defense spending bill requiring women to sign up for draft eligibility. Democrats say a draft would only be implemented under a serious conflict when large numbers of Americans are needed for many roles beyond fighting on the front lines. Top Republicans have supported this in the past, but some are now opposed, accusing Democrats of pushing progressive politics on the military.

Joining me now is The Hill’s national political reporter, Julia Manchester. Julia, the military has not implemented a draft in more than 50 years. Why is this coming up now? Well, look, I think you have Democrats essentially arguing, look, fighting on the front lines of a war looks very different than it has in the past.

We’re now starting to see more cyber warfare, more tech warfare, and they’re arguing that there is certainly a space for women in that line of fighting or part of the military that could be used on the front lines. However, it’s getting quite a bit of pushback for Republicans who are seeking to put some vulnerable Senate Democrats, including Nevada Senator Jackie Rosen and Montana Senator Jon Tester in a very tricky situation. So I want to break in here like I do a lot of these audios, but the Senate Democrats are really telling the truth about what they’re, what the Republicans want to do to the Republicans are being very dishonest about this.

They themselves are going to go along with drafting your daughters. Your daughters are going to be forced to go to war and you’re going to allow this like, like the frog in the hot water until it boils to death by letting boys be the first. And then later on, they’re going to select them that women have to, and they’re going to say, don’t worry, it’s only going to be in a national emergency.

Well, I got news, a national emergency is when the president says it’s in a national emergency with an unconstitutional executive order. And we are seeing the laying the foundations of a draft for all children, because that’s what an 18 year old is today, a child. And if you think that’s fair, then you’ve never been to war.

I can tell you that much, because if you have been, you’ve got to realize the absolute, total, absolute destructive nature of a total war. And that women being involved in a war would absolutely destroy the fabric, the framework of this country. Anybody knows this, the Democrats and the Republicans, they’re desperate to fill, you keep hearing, oh, so many people are joining.

Well, if so many people are joining the service, which it’s not the truth, by the way, then we wouldn’t be talking about selective service registration and the idea that a draft is coming. Let’s listen to the rest of this and see what this expert has to say. And it’s already attacking those senators on this issue.

Now it’s unclear whether a majority leader, Chuck Schumer, will bring this to the floor because of the potential political consequences of this, but Republicans very much pushing back on this, talking about, you know, the gender identity politics and such. Yes. With those concerns in mind, is there really a chance that this could actually be implemented? It’s unclear right now.

I mean, look, I think enough Republicans are pushing back to where, you know, it might not be implemented. At the same time, though, we’ve heard Senate aides, you know, tell the Hill that, look, there are some Republicans who are very much on board with this. Some Republican.

A lot of Republicans are on board with this, and this is a problem. This is the line that continues to go on with our elected leaders who have now become not elected anymore. They have become our kings and princes and royalty.

And we are becoming slaves to the state. Have you noticed, by the way, this is not on your news at night. You’re not reading this in your newspaper.

You’re not watching this on CNN or Fox News or NewsNation. Nobody’s even talking about it. And when you’re not talking about a top story like this, it’s because the deep state, and that’s what we have, the elitist of this country is planning a move against the American people that take away their rights and to enslave them into a draft so we can continue to fight these forever wars.

Now, if you listen to this broadcast, you understand that I am in favor of military action in Iran. I was in favor of it back in June. As a matter of fact, I was upset back in June that we didn’t go far enough.

When you have Iran, it has to be totally destroyed. And I also believe you have to have boots on the ground. And I believe that you had to have a plan before you did anything.

One of the plans could have been, what we’re doing now, was we should have blockaded the port.Or I should say the Strait of Hormuz. We should have been doing this before Iran did it.

We should have been cutting off Iran’s oil supply. We should have bombed that Karak Islands oil supply facilities off the face of the earth so China and nobody else could get Iranian oil, and Iranian government would run out of money. That would have been the first thing that you should have done before you even started bombing in Iran.

But you’re not going to topple that government until you have boots on the ground. And so don’t say that I’m some peacenik and that I don’t think we shouldn’t have a military, and I don’t think we shouldn’t have a military that has to fight. I am for sound war principles.

You know, war is a necessity from time to time. And if you had to get into a draft, then there has to be an amendment to the Constitution that legalizes it. Our government has, for years, never declares war.

The last declared war, by the way, was World War II. We don’t want to declare wars. We let the president run amok.

I don’t care if that president was LBJ or Donald J. Trump. They run amok with executive powers, executive orders that put people’s in harm’s way and never a clear plan for victory. I’ve never heard of going to war in order to make a deal.

All I hear every day is there is a deal. I don’t remember watching all the newsreels of World War II where FDR was saying we’re going to have a deal with Adolf Hitler at any time and the bombing can stop, or we’re going to have a deal with Hirohito and the Japanese is going to agree to stop shooting us and we’ll let them continue dominating the Pacific Ocean. That’s not what war is.

War is to win and to stop, by any means, the aggressor, the enemy, from being victorious. That’s what war is about, but we’re not talking about war. We’re not talking about the military right now.

We’re talking about a plan that you’re not being involved with. You’re not even being told by your news agencies what’s going on behind the scenes, that we are going to be drafting young men and eventually young women. They don’t want to say that right now because then there would be an outcry in this country like you have never seen in your life, and they know that.

So they’re just going to lie, and the Republicans are going to sit there and play politics and blame the Democrats for wanting to draft women, but they have every intention of doing the same thing.Maybe if you have granddaughters and not just grandsons, or daughters and not just sons, maybe this might get your interest, because this is happening and no one’s talking about it, or very few people are talking about it, and you certainly do not hear this on any news station that I have found. Not even liberal communist MSNOW talks about this, because everybody in the elite wantit to happen.

But you want to know what? Do you think Donald Trump’s son is going to go into the draft? Do you think the kids of most of these politicians are going to be involved in a draft? No, they’re going to be exempt. Donald Trump didn’t go to Vietnam, did he? George Bush used the National Guard to get out of going to Vietnam, but they sure like to send our boys into harm’s way, and they get butchered, and they get maimed for life, and then they expect us to give donations to all of these charities to help build homes for wounded war veterans, because our government doesn’t do anything to help these soldiers when they come back wounded and maimed. This is what our politicians are treating us as, as slaves.

We have become the modern Romans, and as a people, we need to stand up, and I hope morevoices start standing up real soon. I will admit, by the way, and I’m going to play this here in a second, there is a U.S. representative, Jonathan Jackson, who explains, and he got himself on TV, a local TV at that, and explains why he does oppose the automatic registration of young men into the draft. I’m going to play that now.

Eligible men in the U.S. will soon be automatically registered for the military draft. Right now, any man aged 18 to 26 is required to register through the Selective Service system online or at the DMV, but starting in December of this year, that all changes. Lawmakers say the move was made to streamline the process and to save money, but not every lawmaker is convinced the National Defense Authorization Act is best for the country, so joining us live now is U.S. Representative Jonathan Jackson.

Good morning. Thanks for being with us. Good morning.

Thank you. Congressman Jackson, is this really a major change? Talk to us how this is different than the procedure that we mentioned is already in place. Well, the current procedure is Selective Service, so everyone is automatically opted into the system, which covers your Social Security and other programs of being a citizen.

But this is military-focused. This goes under this ordinance that the Trump administration is trying to do, puts people in a military registry under the leadership of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. So this is the big issue.

So for the NDA that happened in December, I voted against it. I would vote against this as well. So Congressman, Congress has to approve a draft.

We have heard rumblings on Capitol Hill about instating one. Do you think it would get bipartisan congressional approval? Oh, absolutely not. There’s been a purge of our leadership in the United States Armed Services.

The Armed Services has been really the gold standard, if you will, for civic and corporate and racial relations. People know that when they go there, they can get a fair shake, they can get an opportunity. And so they’ve done a great job in creating their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

They’ve promoted people and generals across race and across gender in an equitable fashion.And we’ve come so far in very little time. I’m still serving in the United States Congress with the first female graduate of the Citadel in Congresswoman Nancy Mace.

And it wasn’t until the year 2011 that women even had a restroom off of the floor in the rotunda where we can vote in the United States Capitol. And so now that you’re looking at the military being 20 percent female and you’re gutting the programs of diversity, equity and inclusion, that, let me see, now that they’re cutting the programs of diversity, equity and inclusion, they’re going to have a lesser talent pool. So I was the first person in Congress to ask for Secretary Pete Hexeth to resign and I will ask for it again.

OK. Congressman, I want to get to a couple more questions for you, because we’re running out of time here. But on the issue of a ceasefire, many critics say Congress has essentially been sidelined.

Then the conversation moved on about the actual sidelining, getting into the politics. But I agree with this person. It is the Republican Party and the Donald Trump administration especially secretly planning to draft you if you’re of age, male or female, your son or daughter if they’re of age, or your grandchild if you’re an older person like myself.

And no one is talking about it. And no one is talking about the law. No one’s talking about the Constitution.

We are becoming like the modern day Romans where we’re going to have centurions around the world fighting battles, forever wars. The thing that our president ran on, I voted for him for, that we were not going to get into these forever wars where we would need a draft. And all he’s done since he’s been president is build a military that he needs to draft in order to fill because people are running to the hills as he, in my humble opinion, is absolutely destroying the military through Pete Hegseth that doesn’t know a thing what he’s doing.

We went into this Iranian war without a plan. And it’s obvious we had no plans whatsoever of victory. All Donald Trump wants to do is sell the art of the deal book and think that war is a deal-making process.

I’ve never heard of such a thing. And I got news for you. If it was a Democrat, if it was Barack Obama, the same mega people who are so supportive of all of this stuff right now would be out on the streets protesting and saying this is outrageous that they’re going to force our boys and girls to go to war and fight these forever wars.

And that is what this president is doing. And nobody is talking about it but theplaintruth.com and a few local news stations that bring on one or two congressmen who understand that maybe there’s something wrong here. Now this is a black man who is a Democrat.

And one of the reasons that you were going to have a black man maybe be a little worried about the Selective Service registration, not including women, because he will vote for a draft. I’ll tell you this right now. All Democrats will.

But one of the things that a black man does understand is who fights the wars that during a draft.And it’s not the elite. It’s not the elite’s kids.

No, it’s the it’s the the lower class individuals. A lot of them are black. Disproportionately a lot of them are black during the draft.

And a lot of poor people go to fight the wars of the rich and the rich can make money on it. Right now we we know that billions of dollars are being made in oil and on the stock market from this Iranian war and through poly market too. And we also know, but nobody seems to want to report it, that people around the White House or donors to the White House are getting rich off of this war that is potentially going to kill and maim thousands of American soldiers.

It’s about time Americans start asking questions. It’s about time that American news media starts doing their job, which is just simply not done. They want to sit there and trash Trump politically.

But the truth is, everything he’s doing, they’ll do the same thing when they’re in charge. I get a laugh when we talked about the the so-called ballroom and the Democrats say it’s a waste of money. I guarantee you, I think it’s a waste of money should have never happened.

It’s defacing the history of the White House. But I’ll give you a prediction right now that when the Democrat becomes president in 2028, he’s going to use that ballroom. He ain’t going to trash it.

He’s going to sit there and have every party and spend all your money in that ballroom that Donald Trump built for them. The Democrats are going to enjoy it. This is what happens when you have one turkey with two wings.

The turkey is the United States government and the two wings is a Republican wing and a Democrat wing. And they all are working for the same common goal to take away your money, take away your rights and take away your liberty. And that’s what’s happening.

Well, that’s all I got to say for today. As you can tell, I’m upset about this because I’ve been through the 1960s and the 70s and the Vietnam War, where people were drafted and sent to a war that no one intended to win. No one intended to win.

And it was an absolute sin against the American public by our so-called elected leaders. Well, that’s the show for today. I do want to again talk about theplaintruth.com. We are a place to go to to find the plain truth.

We don’t filter the news. We tell you what is the truth, what is going on that you’re not being told about. You’re not told about the identity of the United States of America in the Bible.

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The news today simply does not cover the real news that we do at theplaintruth.com. Until tomorrow, Bob Barney for theplaintruth.com. Thank you for listening. Bye-bye.