Posted on 04/24/2021 11:12:13 AM PDT by Theophilus
I have no intention of being forced or having my children be forced to help a criminal, democrat party government.
Given authority backed by real punishment
Therein lies the rub. Those days are long, long, long over.
The only justification for military conscription is the right of the government to call up the militia in time of national emergency.
After WW2, the GI Bill allowed many veterans to go to college.
I would propose, instead, abolition of all federal education subsidies, and replacement by a GI Bill, which only confers benefits after successful and honorable completion of 2-4 years of military service. Combined with service people getting part time classes during enlistment.
Never heard of the SYA but the other two organizations are notoriously vile.
I used to think compulsive national service was a good idea.
After nineteen years of military service and paying taxes since I started working at 11 years old, I have decided that I’ve done enough for my children to not have to do anything for the government other than pay taxes.
I will escape to a non-extraditing Caribbean nation with my family if they attempt to draft my kids, especially my daughters, into military service. Same for any compulsive national service.
Forget it. I’ve paid enough.
So much for $15 per hour for your mandatory volunteerism. Even counting the savings account (probably in long term government bonds so you can get the other half of your when you're 70) that only $5/hour.
Yup. I cancelled my subscription about six years ago.
Forced labor, yeah, that’ll work.
Shanghai the people. Before the CCP comes and does it.
So, when will the people ever wake the hell up and finally get down to striking back at this criminal abomination of a lawless, illegitimate tyranny we now suffer under? Is no outrage significant enough to get the people of today off their asses to fight back against all this? GOPee Delenda Est!
Or their kids will get the snappy, black Hugo Boss uniforms to spend their year and a half learning how to order the peons around and inflict punishments on the deplorable slackers who babble about freedom.
What is it about leftwing nuts that they think that by forcing us into contact with them they can make us approve of them?
That there’s no enumerated power for it and so it is expressly forbidden by the 10th Amendment should matter even more.
What this country desperately needs is to given the domestic legacy of FDR the heave ho ... and all lawlessness based on it!
My guess is that this is a scheme to force people who don’t go to college to get the same left-wing indoctrination that college students get.
“Evaders get Leavenworth.”
Just a hair split but most offenders don’t go to Leavenworth even if they commit major crimes. Last I heard it’s still overcrowded. Now they can go to other federal prisons or brigs.
Not coincidentally, this is the exact same method cults use to facilitate brainwashing of their recruits.
People from large cities would benefit from working in rural areas.
But the reason people live in rural areas is to be left alone in peace, free of the problems caused by city people and busybodies who won't mind their own business but insist on tempting us to resort to defensive measures.
Kids who have never (or rarely) set foot in big cities would benefit from being assigned to jobs in the inner city.
No, there would be no benefit from being assigned to jobs in the inner city. No one wants to be in the inner city except drug dealers. Everyone else wants out but can't leave because they have nothing of value to finance a move.
The rationale for suggesting this non-comfort-zone approach is simple: Participants would be better off being exposed to people and environments unlike their own.
Cite an example of being "better off," and be sure that the judge of what is better is the person who is being victimized and whose plans and productive years are being smothered by such a mandate imposed by idiot leftist wishful thinking.
If an important objective of the program is to give people an opportunity to meet, work with, and hopefully understand people different from themselves—and create the basis for future common ground—people need to get out of their comfort zones. That means physically, emotionally, socially, and geographically.
I don't think the author understands what the phrase "give people an opportunity" means. A mandate is not a gift but a theft. Mandates do not provide opportunity, they take away opportunity, and replace free will with resentment and thus, hate.
I suspect most 18 year old kids have already received the equivalent of 18 months of indoctrination in grade school and high school. They don’t need 18 more.
That is about the time I canceled my subscription.
So the draft dodging racist Cohen wants a new draft to work on collective labor projects like the Moscow Canal?
How Stalinist of him.
National Guard? Police academy? Fire/EMS?
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