Posted on 10/27/2008 8:33:35 AM PDT by Ed Hudgins
By Edward Hudgins, Ph.D.
October 24, 2008 -- Winston Churchill famously observed that, “socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” In the same spirit, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama believes that we should all be equally subject to servitude. He recently indicated that because men are forced by the government to sign up for the selective service, women should be forced to do so as well. Obama’s collectivist and anti-individualist views suggest what we can expect from his administration. They also highlight the crucial need to defend freedom based on the moral right of individuals to live for themselves and their own values, rejecting the requirement that they justify their lives by serving the state, society, or others. Feeling a draft
Let’s begin with some background. The federal government requires all men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register for the selective service in case it is necessary to initiate a military draft. Some argue that when a country’s survival or security is seriously and directly threatened, that it is moral to conscript citizens to defend it. Of course, one might ask whether a country is worth defending if its citizens are not willing to fight voluntarily for it.
In any case, America had a military draft during the two world wars, conflicts that had general public support. But by the time of America’s military involvement in Vietnam, with the draft still in place, things had changed. First, America’s security was not directly threatened by Vietnamese communists, as vile as those communists were and as noble as it might have been to fight them. Second, that conflict wasn’t in response to some direct attack on the country, such as what happened at Pearl Harbor or on 9/11.
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Will Obama’s daughters be signing up?
Since they won’t have to worry about having children.
Where are the chicks in bondage!! I feel used :(
I’m sure there’ll be a deferral for all of those willing to join the Obama Brownshirts.
Or that will be defined as their community service.
I think the little princesses will have their own guards and entourage.
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