THE IDEALISM OF SLAVERY

 

 

 

Rudy Takala
September 24, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

America, like every other nation in the world, has become a bastion of government paternalism. It requires you to pay taxes for one reason – so that politicians have money to buy votes. It’s hardly worth paying taxes to, and it certainly isn’t worth dying for. Anyone who volunteers to do so is going far above and beyond the call of any moral obligation, and for that we should be thankful.

But while many might agree it is not worth dying for, service through death is a lot like taxation. It’s a good idea for other people, but not for oneself. In a recent article for the Christian Science Monitor, Ed Glick, a professor at Temple University, wrote, “[reinstatement of the] draft would do more than just harness the energy and idealism of the nation's youth to meet the military's unmet personnel needs. It would also tap more of the resources of the nation's women, heeding their demands for more gender equality by making their obligations more consonant with their rights.” This would apparently be done by putting people’s names in to a lottery.

“Then,” he states, “the names of all those who didn't get drafted should be placed into [another] lottery for nonmilitary service in city or suburban slums, rural areas, native Americans reservations, or other poverty-stricken places.”

In other words, it is not only your responsibility to serve the country militarily; it should also be your responsibility to help people too lazy or selfish to help themselves. Maybe if our Republican House, Senate and presidency would secure the borders, we wouldn’t have so many slums on the southern half of the United States. Then, perhaps, if they stopped making it possible for slum-dwellers to live off of government aid, the residents of such areas would find the initiative within themselves to clean up their own neighborhoods. But until those things have been accomplished, it’d be more appropriate for our U.S. Senators to spend their own time cleaning up the graffiti, narcotics, and other negative waste produced from pampering such “valued voters.”

The idea that the people of America should be forced to work on Indian reservations – or any other ghetto -- is preposterous. A given population’s slothfulness, and the low quality of life that may accompany it, are far from being anyone else’s problem.

Why is Glick calling for a draft? At first it struck me that he could be a liberal, and was simply floating the idea for the purpose of blaming it on Republicans. Upon investigation, however, I found his articles on such prominent conservative Websites as David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag. He evidently is a serious Republican commentator.

Glick wrote that one of the assumptions upon which he based his view was the idea that “it is proper for America to ask its youth for a period of service.” In doing this, he’s attempting to pit one demographic of people against another – the old against the young – in order to secure control over the whole. The same tactic was used in Nazi Germany to secure the party’s initial hold over the country. In the end, they also began to ask for service from the old and the ill through forced euthanasia. America is on the same road. It’s unfortunate that no one is asking what we’re serving - and why.

I could care less what happens to a people who believe they are entitled to the lives of others. That’s called slavery, and a nation that supports slavery doesn’t deserve to exist. A nation unable to find voluntary defenders lacks the moral fortitude necessary to justify its continuation. The world needs to be reminded – as history has shown nearly every century – of the consequences it will suffer for refusing to be vigilant, of accepting and promoting the notion of security before liberty, and of refusing to commit even the smallest level of voluntary self-sacrifice.

I will not kill for a government that is less than a century away from proudly emulating Nazi Germany’s principles of socialism, statism, and conformity. However, I would not hesitate in defending my values from my own government when it seeks to take the place of God. If power-mad politicians ever come to believe that reenactment of the draft is worth fomenting a civil war, so be it.

Sources:
1, America's youth must serve their country one way or another
2, Balloons ar a 'floatin'!
3, A Military draft might awaken us

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