tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post3825335151511695460..comments2024-03-18T12:50:08.098-05:00Comments on Free Association: End, Don't Extend, Draft RegistrationSheldon Richmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15672237234580563637noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-83445616920184220352016-02-15T15:44:30.413-06:002016-02-15T15:44:30.413-06:00Well, one difference I can come up with is that no...Well, one difference I can come up with is that nobody claims that it is your duty to use Windows. We've been spared the sanctimonious rhetoric, let's be thankful for that.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-55967476806508006752016-02-11T17:35:50.387-06:002016-02-11T17:35:50.387-06:00Here's another question: How is Draft/Selectiv...Here's another question: How is Draft/Selective service registration any different from Microsoft forcing Windows 10 on PC users regardless if they want it or not?Shane Skekelhttp://fightingseraph.newgrounds.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-30155888662743368532016-02-11T14:39:56.216-06:002016-02-11T14:39:56.216-06:00Hi Reverend,
You are right. I think your observat...Hi Reverend,<br /><br />You are right. I think your observation bolsters my point.Jeremynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-56642966295544178032016-02-11T12:44:08.522-06:002016-02-11T12:44:08.522-06:00Jeremy,
If the US ever faced a genuine threat of ...Jeremy,<br /><br />If the US ever faced a genuine threat of invasion, there are plenty of patriotic OLDER people who would volunteer, and risk their lives, to defend "their" country, too.<br /><br />If the US ever faced a genuine threat - not a manufactured or illusory threat - those doing the threatening would likely face a 2,000%+ larger force than that fielded by the entire US military as currently comprised. After all, lawful gun owners in the US outnumber the military by 32:1 or more.Reverend Dracohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18173736101675515677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-86197041443671980462016-02-10T12:30:37.995-06:002016-02-10T12:30:37.995-06:00Hi Sheldon,
Of course draft registration should b...Hi Sheldon,<br /><br />Of course draft registration should be abolished. But, desertion laws should also be abolished. Volunteer soldiers are held in servitude. Given that would be soldiers are lied to and fed an unending stream of propaganda about the "nobility" of their profession, many change their minds when the reality of military service hits home. When this happens, they are held in Involuntary servitude, which is a form of slavey and should be abolished. Aside from the moral argument to eliminate this from of servitude, there is a practical reason to do so. I posit that it would be much harder for the US to maintain its' endless string of aggressive wars if soldiers could legally walk away. As for the argument that this would leave America defenseless, such an assertion is absurd. If the US ever faced a genuine threat of invasion, there are plenty of patriotic young people who would volunteer, and risk their lives, to defend "their" country.<br /><br />JeremyJeremynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-29642622617477817502016-02-10T09:54:26.020-06:002016-02-10T09:54:26.020-06:00https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic-Republica...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party<br /><br />One reason why the War Party is split in (at least) two parties today is that it is easier to win elections when you present two candidates.<br /><br />This ancient "Democratic-Republican" party is said to be against centralization policies of the "Federalist party". But I've been told many times that federalism is about decentralization. What's all this? Why humans are always tampering with the language? War is Peace? Freedom is Security? Taxation is Voluntary?<br /><br />A new language development that creeps me out: transhumanism. I guess transhumanists will evolve and become Enlightened, and they will only participate in transwars, and will only impose transtaxes in transfolks, and will only eat transfood, transethically produced, bought with transmoney, controlled by a transcentral transbank, and their transgovernment will protect their transliberty while giving them transsecurity. We have to end the War on Language!<br /><br />We cannot escape our evil behavior just by changing words. And the draft will continue as long as people run away from reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20077444.post-31360992192287446172016-02-10T09:00:06.116-06:002016-02-10T09:00:06.116-06:00Clips of that debate are yet more proof no one is ...Clips of that debate are yet more proof no one is served by your standard Republican. If they were appealing to their voters they would have said no women in the military. Instead they pretended the signing up for the draft was, somehow, a privilege (or right) that should be extended to women. Completely insane, for it makes no sense at all, especially not coming out of the mouths of overtly idiotic hawks. Women have much less upper body strength than men do- what are they going to do, outfit them with exoskeletons? Augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758314961163692341noreply@blogger.com