Please consider How to Defeat ISIS With Millennial Spirit and Service.
“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,” says Fournier.
Fournier is not only a “warmongering jackass”, but a moron as well if he believes his idea can appeal to doves.
He says he has a better idea. Actually, I do. Send Fournier and all the other jackasses who believe in forced servitude to fight Isis.
The way to perpetual war is forced servitude and attitudes of those like Fournier. We rightfully got rid of servitude, so let’s not bring it back.
You can send a protest email to Fournier here: [email protected].
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The gall of this moronic jackass is stunning. My friend Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man blog pinged me with this comment just a bit ago: “Oh my god, what a creepy statist slave-driver this guy is.”
When I asked Pater if I could post his comment, he replied “Please quote in capital letters!”
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com
I was drafted and know first hand how unfair it is to destroy Mr. A’s life but excuse Mr. B thru Z; either draft everyone for some service or draft no one. If the war is worth fighting (not the stupid 99% we fight), then every young person owes the debt, not just the 10% who do not have rich influential friends or a draftboard that excuses 99% of the local boys. Also, it is very hard for the Elite to conduct wars for their own benefit without the sons of Goy peons for their cannon fodder.(or pawns as Kissinger referred to soldiers).
They should look for volunteers from the FSA.
The draft keeps an army a part of the civilian population with its ultimate allegiance to the people as a whole, a professional army -the alternative to a draft- is separate from the people and owes its allegiance to its leader with little regard to the overall body of the people.
That’s why we need the citizen soldier, not the professional soldier.
The Romans learned this lesson the hard way when Caesar crossed the Rubicon into Rome and took it over as dictator with his loyal professional army.
kokoda says:
“They should look for volunteers from the FSA.”
Why volunteers? Make it a condition of welfare.
Cloward and Piven wanted to create a standing army of FSA members but I don’t think this is what they had in mind. Wouldn’t it be deliciously ironic though?
Bob Heinlein had it oh-so-right when he proposed that one should earn the right to vote.
Every citizen (male or female) get to do a two year term of national service, be it military or civilian service, get paid for it, civics lessons mandatory to be included in the training for whatever it is you are to be doing. No workee- no votee.
You’re a quadripelegic? No problem. Find something you can do of service with appropriate assistance or appliances and put in your time. Dumb as a stump? A shovel will fit your hand to a “T”!. Keeping up National or Stare Gardens is just as much a public service as anything.
But you EARN the right to vote. Once you EARN it, its’ import becomes much more real and turns from an “eh” to something you’ve earned the right to do!
MA
Fournier is an asshole because a draft would have the exact opposite effect. In a week we’d be back to riots against war & the neo-cons. Remember the 1960’s. Good idea Fournier.
Just guessing, at this point everyone knows the ISIS is the run by the CIA paid for by taxpayers.Just like everyone knows Obama is nothing more than a puppet doing the will of Saudis in exchange for petrodollar for loot and pillaging oil,gold,nat gas… .Msm then sells propaganda terrorist stories to Faux.
Just think of those US citizens that were no longer useful and knew too much in Benghazi that Hillary CIA and Obama had stand down orders on.That is why the draft will never The w h has been infiltrated by the M Brotherhood.Their goal for us is very plane
Let’s not forget neo-con war-mongers like Dick Cheney who got 5 deferments to avoid the draft. They’re all chickenshit. And “W” went AWOL to avoid a physical (actually the drug-test part).
How about we just stop going overseas to slay monsters?
Stop the government from killing.
Much worse than an individual walked ass in a church, I think.
Muck – instead of the way you suggest, how about simply ban anyone receiving any form of payment from the government (food stamps, welfare, SS, SSDI, govt drones, et al) from voting. They have enormous conflicts of interest, now don’t they?
That way, the folks voting are earning the right – via their taxes generated through private enterprise – the right to vote.
As it stands, we have ended up with a system where two wolves (those on govt bennies) and a sheep (those in private enterprise) are voting on what to have for dinner.
We will soon run out of sheep.
I have nothing but contempt for those who think somehow their neighbors owe them something, that the hive imposes a moral duty on the other insects.
That anyone so much as suggests that young people somehow should be enslaved for a period to the whims of the assholes who rule this (or any) country is a testament to how brainwashed to collectivism are Americans today.
I don’t owe you SHIT. And I sure as hell don’t owe you my son’s lives or any fraction thereof.
Only the Swiss have instituted a system where a stint in that NEUTRAL country’s military earn a true voice in vetoing the inevitable assholes who get elected.
In the USA?
DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH.
Years ago I had an idea to start a program of national service. That was before I woke up and realized that it would involve stealing from the taxpayers and would in part, feed the war machine which was never my intent. My intent was to improve education levels and broaden horizons by showing young people that there is far more to life than their “hood” and “homies”.
My idea was to basically give high school graduates a choice between college if they or their families could pay for it without debt, national service (2yr) or military (2yr) . Dropouts would have to join a national service program for 2 years. Graduates that did not want to go to college would choose between military and national service. Successful completion of any program would provide a college benefit similar to current military veterans benefits.
The part I dwelled on the most was the national service aspect which would give the entire country an immediate benefit and the participants (and country) a perpetual benefit. The basic goal would be to instill a work ethic in those who had none and take inner shitty yutes out of their dismal environment and show them the beauty and opportunity that exists in the world while they performed labor on public service projects.
The type of labor I saw them performing would be manual labor in municipal parks, national parks and even similar places. I’d move them around the country using a series of military style barracks and pay them (at the end of service) and educate them in practical skills like money management and budgeting and other useful life skills. Basically teach them how to avoid the pitfalls of being poor. I never intended to create cannon fodder or force taxpayers to fund it but those things would likely be inevitable so I forgot about it.
I just figured that if you could show people what existed beyond their own horizon and that a future of drugs, violence and poverty were not inevitable, they might choose a better path. I think the Greatest Generation experienced a similar thing when they were scattered to the far reaches of the globe to fight a war but came home with a sense of purpose and ambition. I figured anything is better than the status quo.
So many people, even here, seem willing to accept the Devil’s bargain with the State. So how does a year or two of compulsory service to the State qualify one to be one of the wolves, voting on how to split up the sheep?
@AnarchoPagan,
People form their beliefs in light of abstract fictions like “national service.”
Apparently, there are few people who can reconcile such abstractions with actual reality. This is the same cognitive handicap that underlies “I hate Congress but re-elect my congressman” or “I hate to vote for the lesser of two evils again, but if that’s all the choice I’ve got, I’ll vote for the guy (or gal) I hate less.”
We see that Congress and the office of the president are universally occupied by the most repugnant scum of the Earth, but somehow “service” directed by such parasites will make for better citizens?
I often despair at the utter stupidity of people.