January 10, 2003

TAKE MY SISTER, PLEASE:

Teenagers challenge male-only draft law (David Weber, January 10, 2003, Boston Herald)
With a war in Iraq looming, a teenage brother and sister and three friends filed a federal lawsuit yesterday charging that the law requiring all 18-year-old males to register for a possible military draft is unconstitutional because it applies only to one gender.

Attorney Harvey A. Schwartz, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of his son, stepdaughter and their friends, said the goal is not to get young women registered, but to get the registration law struck down.

He said a broader motivation is to spur debate ``about the possibility of a draft and of having suburban kids being shipped across the world to fight a war.''


I suppose no one uses the term sissy any more, but let me just say that back in the day that's what we used to call a guy who tried hiding behind a skirt. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 10, 2003 2:50 PM
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You're young. I'm old.



During Vietnam, my antiwar, draft-dodging

colleagues were for an inclusive draft because

it would have halved the chance they'd have

to go.



Plus ca change . . .

Posted by: Harry at January 10, 2003 1:59 PM

And what's the deal with this: "He said a broader motivation is to spur debate 'about the possibility of a draft and of having suburban kids being shipped across the world to fight a war.'"



Uh...what?? I'm no class warrior, and this may be just be a Limo-lib slip of the tongue, but is he perhaps suggesting that only the plebes from the inner city and rural areas should endanger themselves in war?

Posted by: Russell at January 10, 2003 2:21 PM

The Supreme Court already shot this challenge down back in the 80s.

Posted by: Jon at January 10, 2003 2:40 PM

As I recall, Sister Judd did pretty well in her marksperson tests in ROTC...

Posted by: Foos at January 10, 2003 3:55 PM

Jon's right: This is settled precedent.



But with good ol' "What Judicial Personality Will I Wear Today" O'Connor, you never know!!

Posted by: Christopher Badeaux at January 10, 2003 4:34 PM

Lemme get this straight-- one group of leftists don't want draft registration, while another want an actual draft. Isn't it great when you get to define what constitutes consistency?

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 11, 2003 3:20 PM

"I suppose no one uses the term sissy any more, but let me just say that back in the day that's what we used to call a guy who tried hiding behind a skirt."




I'm sure that this makes today's troops who fight with women in uniform alongside them feel real good? Guess they're just a bunch of, oh what's that word nobody's heard of because we're all so young and niave? Oh yeah, they must be sissies too.



Think please before you try and make sense.



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Posted by: dimn at January 12, 2003 3:45 AM
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