To: vannrox
Mandatory service of any kind whatsoever = concentration camp. America should not be in the business of forced servitude. Anyone who wants to argue with that is a statist, pure and simple, and probably shouldn't be frequenting a site called FREE Republic.
To: Jonathon Spectre
I will argue and I am a Veteran!!
Can you really tell me that a teenager in todays America couldn't benefit from a little discipline and direction?
8 posted on
02/09/2002 7:21:14 PM PST by
Nitro
To: Jonathon Spectre
America should not be in the business of forced servitudeAgree, JS. Anyway you cut it, mandatory service is contrary to the principle of a free society.
9 posted on
02/09/2002 7:22:36 PM PST by
RJCogburn
To: Jonathon Spectre
Anyone who wants to argue with that is a statist, pure and simple, and probably shouldn't be frequenting a site called FREE Republic.Maybe anyone who wants to arbitrarily brand someone who disagrees with them as unfit to speak out shouldn't be frequenting a site called FREE Republic.
To: Jonathon Spectre
Apparently the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclaimation only ended slavery by private citizens. Apparently, government slavery is still a good thing, according to the Republican congressman.
To: Jonathon Spectre
I guess all those dead white men of the early days of the Republic must have not been the creators of a "free" republic then. They believed in mandatory military training and service... Just not in a standing army. Their vision of the militia, much like the current and then existing Swiss system, would have everyone train in their local community, but to standards set by the federal government. Not so very long ago, two years of ROTC was mandatory at all land grand colleges.
In fact the original purpose of ROTC was to create a pool of officer cannidates for the state militias to appoint officers out of, and only secondarily to produce officers for the federal military. With the vast majority of the citizenry, for I would include women in this too, having at least rudimentry military training, including weapons training, we'd have less to worry about when it came tyrnany in government or invasion either.
38 posted on
02/09/2002 8:40:17 PM PST by
El Gato
To: Jonathon Spectre
America should not be in the business of forced servitude. Anyone who wants to argue with that is a statist, pure and simple, and probably shouldn't be frequenting a site called FREE Republic.
How true. Let us count the statist pigs on FR, and weep for our "free" "republic."
143 posted on
02/14/2002 9:48:10 PM PST by
Orion
To: Jonathon Spectre
"America should not be in the business of forced servitude."I guess we should outlaw the personal income tax then, huh?
183 posted on
01/02/2003 1:18:19 PM PST by
semaj
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