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Title: You’ve Been Warned – Calls for Mandatory “National Service” for Americans Aged 18-28 Has Begun
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Liberty Blitzkrieg
URL Source: http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/0 ... mericans-aged-18-28-has-begun/
Published: Jun 17, 2015
Author: Michael Krieger
Post Date: 2015-06-18 10:47:02 by Deckard
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Views: 740
Comments: 8
CHAPTER ONE War is a Racket WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes. – From Major General Smedley Butler’s War is a Rackett This is one of the most important articles I will write all year. The statists are coming for your kids, and the conditioning has already begun. Last night, I came across one of the most horrifying articles I have ever read, which is saying a lot. Before I get into it, take a look at the title and the tagline: If you think the title is bad, wait until you read the article. What becomes evident is that this grotesque concept of forced “national service” is being actively discussed at the highest levels of government. What Ron Fournier is doing in his National Journal article is conditioning the public to accept something that is completely unacceptable. Before we get to that, who is Ron Fournier? National Journal provides a bio: Ron Fournier is the Senior Political Columnist and Editorial Director of National Journal. Prior to joining NJ, he worked at the Associated Press for 20 years, most recently as Washington Bureau Chief. A Detroit native, Fournier began his career in Arkansas, first with the Hot Springs Sentinel-Record and then with the Arkansas Democrat and the AP, where he covered the state legislature and Gov. Bill Clinton. In January 1993, Fournier moved to Washington, where he covered the White House and presidential campaigns for the AP. So basically, this guy covered Bill Clinton in Arkansas, moved to the District of Criminals after he was elected President, and now wants to convince you to subject your innocent children into mandatory service to a nation provably run by corrupt criminals and oligarchs. It sure is some twisted notion of “shared sacrifice,” when those who had nothing to do with the disastrous choices made by the oligarchy are the ones who have to suffer the consequences. Let’s now take this piece of Nazi-esque propaganda apart piece by piece. From the National Journal: I know a better way to fight ISIS. It starts with an idea that should appeal the better angels of both hawks and doves: National service for all 18- to 28-year-olds. Require virtually every young American—the civic-minded millennial generation—to complete a year of service through programs such as Teach for America, AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps, or the U.S. military, and two things will happen: First of all, he confidently proclaims that this scheme will appeal to both hawks and doves. Based on what evidence? Let me provide some evidence against his argument based on a recent Rasmussen poll that 45% of U.S. Voters Concerned Government Will Use Military Training Exercises for Power Grab. Here’s an excerpt from the findings: Just 20% of voters now consider the federal government a protector of individual liberty. Sixty percent (60%) see the government as a threat to individual liberty instead. Only 19% trust the federal government to do the right thing all or most of the time. So the American public has no confidence in government, but somehow they are going to gladly line up to serve the corrupt oligarchy? Of course not, which is why people like Ron Fornier want to make it mandatory. Now back to the piece… 1. Virtually every American family will become intimately invested in the nation’s biggest challenges, including poverty, education, income inequality, and America’s place in a world afire. 2. Military recruiting will rise to meet threats posed by ISIS and other terrorist networks, giving more people skin in a very dangerous game. This may seem like a radical plan until you compare it with two alternatives: the status quo, which clearly isn’t working, or a military draft, which might be the boldest and fairest way to wage the long war against Islamic extremists. Notice how he offers us only three options, as if that is all the imaginative well of humanity is capable of coming up with. Forced national service, the status quo or a draft. Nowhere does he offer the logical alternative of say: stop preemptively invading and destroying countries for no reason (Iraq, Libya to name a few). Perhaps then idiotic foreign policy decisions won’t create ISIS in the first place. This is an important lesson in how statists operate. They only offer you statist choices. Kind of like being forced to choose between a Clinton and a Bush for President. The Draft Act is highly unlikely to be law, given the nation’s post-Vietnam resistance to the mandatory military service and the relative success of an all-volunteer armed forces. Which leads me to the year-of-service plan: It stops far short of a draft while drawing on the ethos of communal sacrifice. Notice how he cleverly started the piece by mentioning the Peace Corps, Teach for America, etc, and only listed the military at the end? Pure smoke and mirrors. His entire point is to push for mandatory military service. No one wants to fight any more unnecessary wars to boost corporate profits, and any statist worth his or her salt knows full well mandatory conscription will be necessary in order to maintain the power position and wealth of the status quo going forward. Finally, just in case you think this is merely some hack journalist mouthing off, Mr. Fournier makes it clear that this is being discussed at the highest levels of government. I spoke about the concept with retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who commanded forces in Afghanistan and Iraq and now chairs the Franklin Project, part of the Aspen Institute that is trying to position a year of full-time national service—a service year—as a “cultural expectation, a common opportunity, and a civic rite of passage for every young American.” His logic tracks with mine. Second, if this president or his successor gets serious about ISIS, McChrystal said the effort would require an international coalition and more U.S. troops. “Even if we didn’t need a draft” to drum up the required troops, McChrystal said, “I would argue we need a draft, because it forces national commitment.” Forced national commitment to a government nobody believes in. Can’t wait to see how that works out. “A problem in America is we’ve let the concept of citizenship diminish into a series of gripes,” McChrystal told me. “One of the ways we can rebuild that sense of ownership, sense of shared ownership, is through experience, and so I believe that every young person deserves—I don’t think this is an onerous thing—deserves the experience of being part of something bigger than themselves.” No General McChrystal, we have let the concept of democracy diminish into a corrupt, thieving oligarchy. In case you need proof: New Report from Princeton and Northwestern Proves It: The U.S. is an Oligarchy. Furthermore, you don’t “rebuild ownership” by forcing citizens to serve an oligarchy they hate, you “rebuild ownership” by dismantling the oligarchy. Bowing to political realities in risk-averse Washington, the Franklin Project aims to make a service year a social expectation rather than a legal requirement. I would mandate it. So would McChrystal—if he had his way. Statists gonna state. While ISIS and other terrorist groups are having no trouble recruiting suicide bombers, McChrystal said, Americans are struggling to redefine their national identity for the 21st century. “A year of service for young Americans would be a step,” he said. “Not a panacea, a step.” This paragraph unintentionally says a lot. You want to fight an army of radical volunteers created by your own foreign policy crimes by forcing people who have no trust in their government to join the military? It’s an idea so stupid and destructive, only a rabid statist could conceive it. Before concluding, I want to emphasize how dangerous this line of thinking is. It is precisely because I see these sorts of things coming down the road, that I do what I do with this website. The only way to stop statist plans like these is to win the war of ideas before they have a chance to dazzle you with their next bit of propaganda. Stay vigilant and keep fighting. For related articles, see: Accusations Emerge That the U.S. Is Aiding ISIS – The Latest “Conspiracy Theory” Circulating in Iraq Jeb Bush Exposed Part 1 – His Top Advisors Will Be the Architects of His Brother’s Iraq War Leon Panetta, Head of Pentagon and C.I.A. Under Obama, Says Brace for 30 Year War with ISIS In Liberty,The statists are coming for your kids, and the conditioning has already begun
Michael Krieger
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#1. To: Deckard, stoner, all (#0)
It isn't foreign wars I'm worried about so much as conscripting our vulnerable youth into a several years long imposed additional indoctrination and propaganda crusade into support of a countercultural Marxist war against our own country. That's where this movement is heading.
I suspect you are correct Robert. Unfortunately, too many of the adults are leaning in that direction, and unlikely to properly guide their children in the proper direction. Si vis pacem, para bellum
Some people march to a different drummer - and some people POLKA.
Have you been living in a cave? This has been going on for 50 years or so. It's called K-12 public school education follwed by "advanced" education in colleges and universities. потому что Бог хочет это тот путь
Once again you are getting your panties all in a wad over nothing. For one thing it won't happen because if it DID happen it would be a good thing,and the end of all these endless wars. People who don't give a damn right now who we are fighting or where we are fighting as long as it's not THEIR "prescious little snowflake" doing the fighting and dying will suddenly take an interest in foreign affairs and how the government is ran. People who enlist because our alleged leadership trashed our economy to the point where there are no jobs available for them other than in the military may be a little hesitant to report any shady dealing they see going on,but somebody drafted and in for only a couple of years will drop the hammer on corruption without even thinking about it. He not only has nothing to lose,but it's a chance for him or her to get "back" at the system. I PERSONALLY think that citizenship should be earned,not just given to infants because they were lucky enough to be born in the "right" place. I go along with Robert Heinlein and his thought that only citizens should have the right to vote,and the only way to earn the right to vote was to serve a term on active duty in the military. Which also means if you didn't serve you are not a citizen,so you will not be able to hold public office,either. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
What better way to stop it than expose the young to the corruption in the system so they can see for themselves the direction we are heading? Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
And public school teachers are STILL teaching that we are a democracy,and that Lincoln freed the slaves. Hell,they are even teaching that it wall illegal for blacks to vote in America prior to the Civil Wrongs Act of 1964. And some people still wonder why so many people have attitudes. Granted,it is not the job of society to babysit you and spoon feed you historical facts,but the people hired with public money to teach the children of the public should at a minimum know what they are teaching and make an effort to insure it is factual. I have no doubt at all that 90 percent of the teachers actually believe that crap themselves because it is what THEY were taught and nobody has ever taught them different. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Damn right.. My army experience taught me exactly how valuable my freedom was; -- it is irreplaceable, and only a bit of being forced to 'follow orders' was more than enough... Well said, bears repeating...
War is a Racket
#2. To: rlk, Deckard (#1)
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
#4. To: rlk, Deckard, stoner, all (#1)
It isn't foreign wars I'm worried about so much as conscripting our vulnerable youth into a several years long imposed additional indoctrination and propaganda crusade into support of a countercultural Marxist war against our own country. That's where this movement is heading.
#5. To: Deckard (#0)
#6. To: rlk (#1)
It isn't foreign wars I'm worried about so much as conscripting our vulnerable youth into a several years long imposed additional indoctrination and propaganda crusade into support of a countercultural Marxist war against our own country.
#7. To: SOSO (#4)
Have you been living in a cave? This has been going on for 50 years or so. It's called K-12 public school education follwed by "advanced" education in colleges and universities.
#8. To: sneakypete (#6)
(Edited)
What better way to stop it than expose the young to the corruption in the system so they can see for themselves the direction we are heading?
I PERSONALLY think that citizenship should be earned,not just given to infants because they were lucky enough to be born in the "right" place. I go along with Robert Heinlein and his thought that only citizens should have the right to vote,and the only way to earn the right to vote was to serve a term on active duty in the military. --- Which also means if you didn't serve you are not a citizen,so you will not be able to hold public office,either.
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