We are talking about a country which has managed that most difficult of political maneuvers: devolving power down to its people, rather than concentrating political power permanently in the hands of a ruling class or individual.
And, in my lifetime, this has now gone in the opposite direction.
At some point in the future of this nation, there will come a time when we, as citizens of this wonderful nation, may be forced to send our sons and daughters to fight against implacable foes, to preserve what we have.
That's right and considering our jet-around-suburbia-minivan culture needs
cheap foreign resources (I know it's verbotten to mention the O word) to
continue the "everlasting" credit bubble spending spree, some of those
sons and daughters will have to die so the bread and circus can continue
in their hometown coliseum. Yes, let's not make the hard choices now like
conservation and even
rationing. Without taking strong internal measures
today, we will end up with conflict. What we are seeing overseas right now
is only the beginning. It will be worse if we continue down this road.
Sorry, but you don’t get to make that choice. The nation, We The People, through our elected government, gets to make that choice, and that’s the beginning and the end of it.
"our elected government"? You mean the one where my reps are bought off
by whoever can write the biggest check? Can you say cronyism and
patronage?
Slavery is ok if it is for a good cause...
Sad but True. It depends on what the public perceives at that point in
history and how it relates to their own comfort. This is why at one time
it was considered "ok" to enslave African-Americans and send Native
Americans on forced marches where many died in this country. There is still
a class of people in this country that it is considered ok to kill without
breaking man's laws to the tune of approximately 1.6 million/year.
Only as needed to protect our HOME SOIL from anyone attacking it directly,
There would be no shortage of volunteers to actually defend this country
if it came down to their homes being torched and their wives and daughters
raped. There is always a large amount of collective self-interest that can
be tapped at those times.
Why do you guys hate the Constitution and representative government?
This is akin to saying "You're either with us or against us."
As a recent OIF Vet and having seen what has transpired over the past
year, I have absolutely no difficulty saying with great confidence that
our government no longer follows the Constitution and is no longer
representative of the legal citizens within its borders. This is exactly
what happened prior to our founding Revolution when the King of England
cr@pped on his citizens in the colonies. Whoops....they were called
subjects and servants back then. At least today we maintain the name
of citizen as we are moved back to serf.
The draft is slavery. If not enough people are willing to join the military voluntarily, fine, let the country be conquered.
I can understand the frustration that spawns this statement and certainly
the counter-statements to it that the alternative of being conquered would
be worse. All I can say is study Roman history and be
honest about
where this country is currently and how it has arrived here.
Like it or not, the social contract of this country provides that you have delegated the decisions to whether a war is just or not, to your political representatives.
Delegated? Please.....They've been stolen and bought off. All I have to
see is who is the member of which corporate boards among the rotating
apparatchniks both in the agency/cabninet beaurocracies and the political
parties to know that the social contract has been used like toilet paper.
It's been broken. To say otherwise is completely naive.
Sorry, to sound negative, but the truth hurts and when the two by four of
reality finally hits you in the face, you'll know it. From what I've read
there are still a lot of people here who have been ducking that swing by
sticking their heads in the sand.
Let's be
honest about what this country has become and that it will take
conscription to maintain it. It's about comfort and enterntainment and like
ancient Rome, it will take ruthless internal measures and external conquests
to fuel it. That means those of you who haven't volunteered in the armed
forces to sustain it should not be surprised when your children are drafted
in the not too distant future. Study your history: every empire must do
this to survive and the US will be no different if it wants to be an empire
as well. Either we do that, or we limit ourselves like other countries
such as.....hmmmm.......Switzerland.
A draft will happen again. Don't doubt it for a second and unless you're one
of the
privileged families in this country who have over the last few
decades squirmed out of overseas service when "their nation called upon
them",
your kids will go or there will be a consequence for them. The
State will come into your home and enforce it with them.
Again, study Roman history (Ottoman and Habsburg are good, too). At one
time, the "noble" families of all those empires use to personally lead their
troops into battle and suffered along with them. We can't say that about
America today, or since Korea, can we? This is a hallmark of empires and
their internal dynastic families.
Some will take my writing here as somehow anti-American. Absolutely not.
My family fought in the Revolution and our obscure name is part of its history
from coast to coast. We were even West of the Mississippi before Lewis
and Clark started their expedition. My point is, let's be
honest with
each other about what we have right now. Be an adult and understand
that there will be blood on your hands or those of your children if we are to
have an Empire
rather than a Republic.
