tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post6538505544378547361..comments2024-03-08T07:09:46.527-07:00Comments on Pro Libertate: From "Surge" to SlaveryWilliam N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-63571913808826020382007-04-03T04:41:00.000-06:002007-04-03T04:41:00.000-06:00Amdocs is blackmailing America's "leaders." That'...Amdocs is blackmailing America's "leaders." That's why they're making such insane decisions: http://dinoberry.googlepages.com/homeTRUTHMONGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14485154573233931100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-54539645516143750892007-02-12T14:25:00.000-07:002007-02-12T14:25:00.000-07:00Interestingly, just a few years later the democrac...Interestingly, just a few years later the democracy in France would resort to conscription for a national defense force.<BR/><BR/>I think we all remember what happened after that. Napoleon took the army on a whirlwind, defensive tour of the rest of Europe, and history and the political landscape of Europe were changed forever with it.The Ownerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16192780977787646373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-50789384289119813432007-02-11T16:21:00.000-07:002007-02-11T16:21:00.000-07:00Where does one find a list of those who have been ...Where does one find a list of those who have been selected to be on a draft board?Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00447111416321992256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-18116288866434750782007-02-11T13:54:00.000-07:002007-02-11T13:54:00.000-07:00Well said, drfix.If I knew then what I know now......Well said, drfix.<BR/><BR/>If I knew then what I know now........ <BR/><BR/>It had to be a few years after I left the employ of Uncle Sam that I realized at no time was I given a pep talk or reminder from my training cadre why I was needed in the Army. <BR/><BR/>Other than receiving training on Soviet aircraft/ armor recognition, and seeing at the range plastic pop-up targets resembling a dwarf Soviet soldier complete with red star on his helmet, there was no mention of a soldier's true purpose. <BR/><BR/>Now I know why.<BR/><BR/>They could've easily squeezed in a block of instruction on Americanism if they eliminated the hours long sexual harassment brainwashing. <BR/><BR/>But they don't want to do that, do they?<BR/><BR/>BTW-it must've cost a fortune to replace all those little "Ivans" just a few years later.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00447111416321992256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-9856407863743302732007-02-10T20:08:00.000-07:002007-02-10T20:08:00.000-07:00If our misrulers adopt a draft, lets start with Je...If our misrulers adopt a draft, lets start with Jenna and Barbara Bush and Dick Cheney's daughter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-67227397398003063862007-02-09T22:21:00.000-07:002007-02-09T22:21:00.000-07:00I agree. This is why I try hard now to tell anyone...I agree. This is why I try hard now to tell anyone who will listen not to enlist if at all possible. Even though its "voluntary," it's still really just plain servitude disguised as an exciting "career path" or other half-truth.<BR/><BR/>Whether the State ever is frank and transparent (which is an oxymoron, it never is) in its advertisements to attract enlistees into its military tentacle, or not, it just doesn't matter. It's still servitude and you're but a mere fresh young human pawn for them to play on their chess table to be captured or killed only for <I>their</I> benefit, glory, or desire in the geopolitical arena.<BR/><BR/>After all, if you ask the average serf ...uh citizen... why they want to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines, the usual quick, off the cuff answer is that they can gain skills and possibly obtain a higher education for better job prospects later after their time in service. In other words, it's more often than not a decision based on economics more than a "love of service" or "love of country" in some extraneous and altruistic sense.<BR/><BR/>Now there are and have been exceptions of course (i.e. Pat Tillman and others) throughout our history. But from my observation, they are not the rule, but the exception.<BR/><BR/>That was surely my reason and most of my buddies' reasons for joining at the time I did in 1984. It never crossed my youngster mind about "protecting freedom" or "defending the country" in a big picture sense as the impetus for enlisting. Well, on second thought, I can't say "never crossed my mind," perhaps, but it was never, ever the primary motivation.<BR/><BR/>Still, promoting state dependence, in essence - no matter whether chosen for economic reasons, educational reasons, or otherwise - as we who were motivated by such reasons were demonstrating is no excuse. We were really nothing but pawns.<BR/><BR/>Regardless of the character of the messenger in question, anyone who's heard (and groked) the Rangel "universal service" rant or the Kerry flap about being "cannon-fodder" should have at least a clue of that fact by now ;).dixiedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09845646940134894119noreply@blogger.com