Post by RS Davis on Aug 4, 2004 13:48:36 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS[/glow]
[glow=red,2,300]by James W. Harris[/glow]
[shadow=red,left,300] The Difference Between a Slave and a Free Man[/shadow]
A growing number of liberals and conservatives alike are talking about the desirability of some form of military conscription or compulsory national service.
Award-winning veteran liberal columnist Nicholas von Hoffman recently responded to this with a column that got right to the heart of the matter:
"National service is a form of slavery, though some may argue that it’s really not since the conscriptees get paid, get college money, medical insurance and perhaps other bennies. But it’s not a wage which distinguishes a free person from a slave; slaves have often been paid in the past. The difference between a slave and a free man is that a free man is free -- free to work at whatever wages he can get, free not to work.
He’s free to go, free to come, free to talk, free to be silent and free to refuse to serve."
(Source: Nicholas von Hoffman, New York Observer:
observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=9339 )
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[glow=red,2,300]Ronald Reagan on the Draft...[/glow]
"[The draft] rests on the assumption that your kids belong to the state. If we buy that assumption then it is for the state -- not for parents, the community, the religious institutions or teachers -- to decide who shall have what values and who shall do what work, when, where and how in our society. That assumption isn't a new one. The Nazis thought it was a great idea." -- Ronald Reagan, Human Events, 1979.
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[glow=red,2,300]by James W. Harris[/glow]
[shadow=red,left,300] The Difference Between a Slave and a Free Man[/shadow]
A growing number of liberals and conservatives alike are talking about the desirability of some form of military conscription or compulsory national service.
Award-winning veteran liberal columnist Nicholas von Hoffman recently responded to this with a column that got right to the heart of the matter:
"National service is a form of slavery, though some may argue that it’s really not since the conscriptees get paid, get college money, medical insurance and perhaps other bennies. But it’s not a wage which distinguishes a free person from a slave; slaves have often been paid in the past. The difference between a slave and a free man is that a free man is free -- free to work at whatever wages he can get, free not to work.
He’s free to go, free to come, free to talk, free to be silent and free to refuse to serve."
(Source: Nicholas von Hoffman, New York Observer:
observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=9339 )
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[glow=red,2,300]Ronald Reagan on the Draft...[/glow]
"[The draft] rests on the assumption that your kids belong to the state. If we buy that assumption then it is for the state -- not for parents, the community, the religious institutions or teachers -- to decide who shall have what values and who shall do what work, when, where and how in our society. That assumption isn't a new one. The Nazis thought it was a great idea." -- Ronald Reagan, Human Events, 1979.
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