Welcome to Keith Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the
Libertarian Institute. We need a limited military
draft, says military.com. You know, I am so grateful that
people are in large part against things like forcing other people
to pick cotton against their will.
It's terribly immoral. Absolutely evil.
However, forcing someone to perform military service where
they're more likely to get PTSD, get their limbs blown off, get
killed, This appears to me to be far worse than than something
like for Scott and Picking. However, both are bad, but I
could be totally wrong. Let's hear out military.com to
see what they have to say. It's time to change how our
country fills the ranks of our military.
Okay. The 1st 2 words are propaganda.
Usually When people say it's time, usually it's going to be
something completely a historical.
And it's going to be something completely unprincipled because
you could say in 1981 the Soviets have crushed the Polish
Solidarity movement, The Soviets are moving westward.
This is a great atrocity. It's time to invoke military
conscription because we really need to take these people on.
In 1983, you could have said, well, the Soviets just shot down
a civilian aircraft with a sitting Congressman Larry
McDonald on board, referred to as Korean Airlines flight 007.
But we can only address this if we have a huge military and we
can't rely on volunteers. So at any point in history, you
can say either we're really safe and now is the time to have the
draft because it's not endangering too many people and
we're only safe because of the military in a time of war, Well,
we're it's very dangerous out there.
We need a military draft. So that is usually what it's
time means. Also, if it's inherently
justified, why is now any different than 50 years ago, 100
years ago, completely unprincipled?
He also refers to it as our military doesn't seem like ours.
I feel like I don't get much input when it comes to the
Pentagon. All the wars that they're
engaged in, I have opposed and they don't really call me and
say, hey Keith, is this something you'd like us to do?
What would you like to fund this?
Because if you don't want to fund it, you can opt out of
funding it. Of course they require you to
fund it through coercive taxation, so I don't know how
it's ours. It certainly seems like a
separate entity considering they have the right to force us to
fund them and we don't have the right to force them to fund us,
article continues. Since 1775, our nation has used
a combination of volunteers and draftees.
I will say I appreciate he uses the example or the dichotomy
rather of volunteers and draftees.
Another if, in other words, if people aren't volunteering and
giving their time voluntarily. The opposite of that is being
drafted to meet our National Defense personnel needs.
Are they needs or wants? Vietnam, Korea, When you say
needs, does that mean the country's going to die?
Cease to exist? It these seem like a lot of
wants rather than needs. Even in 1775, there are plenty
of nations like Australia or South Africa or Canada who were
part of the British Empire, and without the significant military
conflict we're able to secure their independence.
These feel like wants, not needs.
Meet our National Defense personnel needs, especially in a
time of crisis. Today the military needs only
about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30
million to meet its recruitment needs.
Need this. We will die without it.
Not a want. It's required.
Just because something is a need doesn't mean you get to coerce
people into it. Farming is an absolute need.
Is that Okay? If Tyson Chicken and all the
farming companies force people to perform labor against their
will, We need cars, we need houses.
Does that mean housing and construction companies have the
right to coerce people to perform labor to provide these
needs? So even if you agree that it is
a need, which it isn't, doesn't justify you coercing people to
do such a thing. But after two decades of war,
both of which ended on success unsuccessfully.
So this is an organization that just is about needs, and the
needs were unsuccessfully met. And the solution to this is not
to make sure people can opt out of funding the military or opt
out of joining it. They need to require people to
engage in this unsuccessful adventure.
After two decades of war, both of which ended unsuccessfully,
and low unemployment, many experts believe that the all
volunteer Force has reached a breaking .0 okay.
I'm convinced the experts believe the experts have spoken.
The science says that we can't just allow people to interact
voluntarily, and American confidence in its military is at
a low. So when the confidence in your
organization is bad, it's time to start forcing people to
associate more with it. Not for you to change.
No, you're just meeting the needs of the nation.
No other people need to be forced to interact with you.
See, when you do a good job, then it's okay to force people
to interact with you because you're doing a good thing.
And when you're doing a bad job with your your last two wars
have ended unsuccessfully well, then you need to force people to
associate with you. Heads, I win.
Tails you lose. The fastest and most effective
way to resolve this recruiting crisis is to change how we
recruit. It's just a change, you know,
sort of like Barack Obama ran on hope and change.
We just need to change something.
There's no principles that we should abide by.
We just need change. It's going to be fast and most
effective in invoking economic efficiency when forcing people
to perform labor against their will.
Instead of an either instead of an either, an all voluntary
force or fully conscripted force model, I propose a both and
solution. OK, this is the fallacy of
equilibrium. We don't want to be extremists.
We want a little bit of this and a little bit of that.
We want to meet right in the middle.
This is like saying, well, I don't want to never steal.
I don't want to always steal. So I guess I should steal
sometimes. And I guess if the a happy
medium is something that's justified.
I don't want to always, you know, dodge the draft.
I don't want to never dodge the draft.
So maybe half the people should dodge the draft.
Half the time we should have our military recruiters sign up new
troops for 11 months out of the year and then have the Selective
Service draft the delta between the military's needs and the
total number recruited. Okay, this model would
alleviate, oh, he's just trying to alleviate us.
It's going to be fast. It's going to be efficient.
If it's meeting needs and it's alleviating.
He's really doing you a favor. I I need to send this man to
thank you note, alleviate the incredible pressure on our
recruiters. So it's not that they need to
provide a better service. They don't need to improve their
organization at all. They're actually under a lot of
pressure. Lower the cost of finding new
troops. Oh yes, but military only gets
like, you know, a trillion dollars a year in in
expenditures. They're just really worried
about the cost and significantly reduce the much decried civilian
military gap. The fact that a gap exists is
nothing terrible. There's a huge gap between
pilots and customers of airlines.
Some pilots will fly thousands and thousands of times and other
people will never fly a plane in their entire life.
So what? Nothing terrible about that.
The much decried civilian military gap by subjugating all
of America's, Subjugating all of America's youth, that that's a
good way to put it, rich and poor, to the possibility of
military service via the draft? Okay.
So This is why progressives playing the class warfare game
is so evil, because then someone can come in and say you know
what, you're right, the problem is the rich.
Therefore we got to make them pay as well and have something
like this. So when progressives never talk
about anything like the non aggression principle, this is
totally in line with with what they advocate.
Cuz you know it's not it's not wrong that the military
initiates violence against peaceful people in Yemen,
Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
The problem is the rich are benefiting so this opens you up
to class warfare nonsense. This increased public interest
might also have the added effect of increasing public pressure to
prevent open-ended wars. So they don't prevent openended
wars when people voluntarily associate with them.
But when you have to associate with them, well, then they're
going to do a good job. You know, we were going to do a
bad job, but I guess we could do a good job if we force people to
associate with US-led by unaccountable senior leaders
like we experience in our national debacles in Iraq and
Afghanistan. It's important to know that
while Iraq is usually seen as the throwaway, OK, yes, Iraq was
a blunder. The war in Afghanistan was also
completely unjustified in October 14th of 2001.
Here is the guardian Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand
Bin Laden over President George Bush rejected as non negotiable
in offer by the Taliban to discuss turning over Osama bin
Laden if the United States ended the bombing in Afghanistan.
Returning to the White House after a weekend at Camp David,
the president said the bombing would not stop unless the ruling
Taliban turn bin Laden over, turn his cohorts over, turn any
hostages they hold over, he added.
There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt.
We know he's guilty up. The experts have spoken.
They know he's guilty. In Jalalabad, Deputy Prime
Minister Aji Abdul Kabir, the third most powerful figure in
the ruling Taliban regime, told reporters that the Taliban would
require evidence that bin Laden was behind the September 11th
terrorist attack in the US, but added we would be ready to hand
him over to a third country. So they could have avoided that.
That was one of the needless wars that the author mentions,
and they didn't do it when people were voluntarily joining
the military. But if they coerce you and you
don't have the right to opt out, then they'll start making really
good decisions. It's important to know
Afghanistan was completely unnecessary as well.
So when it comes to meeting our military needs, these are not
needs. These are wants for military
industrial interests. And it's not like it's only you
know them who benefit. Tons of soldiers get the amazing
retirement packages and everything for the only a few
years of work. Article Continues While the
causes of our current recruiting crisis are many, the fastest and
best solution, fast, efficient he's alleviating, it's the best
solution lies within our already existing Selective Service
System. This would obviously represent a
seismic change given the more recent history of military
drafts. In 1973, the draft was abolished
with the establishment of an all volunteer force, driven largely
by the American public's weariness with our debacle in
Vietnam, so two unsuccessful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They concede that Vietnam was a debacle, not inherently immoral
because they murdered a lot of civilians in Vietnam and Laos
and Cambodia and, you know, 58,000 American troops died in a
war that was based on a Gulf of Tonkin fake incident.
No, no. This was just a debacle.
See, when other countries murder civilians, it's inherently evil
and we got to go to war. When the Pentagon and the US
regime murder innocent people, that was a debacle.
That that was an accident. Basically, more or less systemic
inequities in the draft Okay. And this is where we get the
inequality myth coming back. Yeah, there are a lot of
inequalities in the world. As if the existence of
inequalities justifies performing forced labor against
your will. Systemic inequities in the draft
example, wealthier Americans being able to defer service, and
the fact that the size of our population has become so large
in relation to the needs of the military.
Universal drafting became obsolete.
While the ALL Volunteer force had the effect of lowering
discipline problems and professionalizing the force, it
also created a vast gap between American citizens and those who
serve. This is a disgusting division
where, just like under COVID, they said some people are
essential workers. And then there's other people.
That's extremely divisive for someone who wants to close the
gap between members of our Democratic Republic.
He's actively saying there are people who serve and then
there's American citizens. The people who work at
restaurants do a great deal of serving and they give us food
which is required to live. Car mechanics give me car
assistance, which allow me to get to work and have a life.
Those are great services as well.
Let's not pretend that the military is completely unique in
that aspect, effectively creating a military warrior cast
that now appears more like a multigenerational family
business than an organization that represents the true makeup
of our Democratic Republic. If you want to represent the
Democratic Republic, you want to make sure that people have the
freedom to disassociate with your organization.
Because if you're forcing someone to associate with you,
you don't know. Maybe they like you.
Maybe they love you, maybe they hate you.
But if they don't have the recognized right to opt out of
funding it or participating with it, then it actually doesn't
reflect what people actually want.
It's like saying I want to see if people really like this ice
cream shop I'm opening up. Therefore I'm going to require
people to be my customer and require them to eat the ice
cream. Well, that's not how you see if
you represent them, you offer them something voluntarily.
And if they like, if they say they like it, if they're
returned customers, then that's a good indicator that you're
actually representing them. The establishment of the All
Volunteer Force also drove the military to expend an incredible
amount of resources in terms of manpower and dollars to build a
recruiting machine to attract America's youth to service.
Yes, So what? It's like, you know what?
If I can't get women to voluntarily date me, I'm going
to have to start coercing them because, I mean, I spend so much
time trying to get their attention and my business, I
spend so much time on marketing that it's really a waste.
I should just be able to force people to give me money and
force people to be my customers because, you know, I expend an
incredible amount of resources in terms of manpower and
dollars. Considering it costs about
$15,000 to recruit each new member, the overall cost each
year exceeds 2 billion. So they don't need to provide a
better service. They don't need to be more
honest, they don't need to declassify documents, They don't
have to change anything on their side of the equation.
What they have to do is start forcing us to associate with
them, and recruitment has risen and fallen with the national
unemployment rate. The causes of this crisis are
many, and both politicians and our national leadership are
largely to blame. Credit to this sentence right
there, not bad. For nearly a decade, feckless
politicians using the military as a club to batter their
opponents have exacerbated increasing negative public
opinion, despite the fact that our military has crushed
international terrorism and prevented another large scale
attack on our homeland for 22 years.
Crushed international terrorism. So according to CIA analysts,
September 11th or around September of 2001 there were
about 400 members of Al Qaeda, 400 Mujahideen fighters who
answered to Osama bin Laden. There were 10s of thousands of
fighters for the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan,
going as far as the Philippines. In some cases.
They didn't crush it. They actually exacerbated it.
Here is an example of of why it was exacerbated.
Osama bin Laden wrote a message to the American people, American
people. My speech to you is about the
best way of avoiding a repeat performance of Manhattan, as
well as the causes and consequences of the war.
By way of introduction, let me say that security is an
indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not
forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claims that we hate
freedom, if that were true. Then let him explain to us why
we do not attack Sweden. For example, freedom haters do
not possess defiant spirits like those of the 19.
May God have mercy on them. No, we fight because we are free
men who do not slumber under oppression.
We want to restore freedom to our nation, and just as you lay
waste to our nation, we shall lay waste to yours.
Only a witless wrongdoer plays with the security of others and
then fools himself into thinking he will be secure, whereas
rational people, when disaster strikes, make it a priority to
look for its causes. God knows we would never have
thought of striking the towers had we not seen such tyranny and
oppression from the American Israeli alliance against our
people in Palestine and Lebanon. So this is bin Laden going on
explaining that state terrorism is called freedom and democracy,
while resistance is terrorism and intolerance.
This means that millions of people must suffer oppression
and embargo until death results, as inflicted by Bush senior in
Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children ever.
So it was actually the military interventions of Iraq, support
for Israel and occupation of the land of Mecca and Medina to bomb
places like Iraq and enforce the starvation blockade That is
actually what caused the terrorism that this author is
claiming that the state protects us against.
Also large scale attack. Barack Obama did call the Pulse
nightclub massacre, the single largest shooting in American
history, even though the shooting at Wounded Knee killed
far more people. But even the Pulse nightclub
murderer Omar Mateen, who got on the phone with the FBI and said
tell America to stop bombing Iraq and Syria, they're killing
too many women and children. Tell the US to stop
collaborating with Russia. The drone strike, the drone
strikes need to stop. They're killing too many women
and children. That was clearly an example of
blowback, as was 911 and the existence of Al Qaeda.
So yeah, the entire War on Terror was completely avoidable
and is the fault of the US government.
Article continues despite this success.
Again, not a success. There were far more Mujahideen
fighters as a causal result of the War on Terror than there
were before in 2023. Every service except the Marine
Corps is poised to miss its recruitment goals.
We're not getting what we want. We don't have to change.
You people have to be forced to associate with us.
In 2022, the army alone fell short by 15,000 recruits.
The needs of the nation must be met.
Great non sequitur. All right The the food needs of
the nations must be met. Therefore, farming companies
have the right to enslave people to work for them.
Housing needs need to be met. Therefore, construction
companies have the right to force people to perform
construction against their will. Complete non sequitur and our
national leadership would be wise to reinforce the idea that
military service is an important responsibility of citizenship.
Yeah, parenting is a important responsibility.
Having a job, being kind to others is a vitally important
responsibility of citizenship. Does not mean you get to coerce
people and put them in a cage if they resist, threatening to kill
them if they resist. Being put in the cage for not
wanting to fight in wars based on lies, which you've conceded
are unnecessary debacles. While conscription has always
been a controversial issue, yes, yeah, slavery is controversial.
Forced labor, I would say, is a little controversial throughout
our history. A hybrid model of he's just
finding a happy equilibrium. He's not really taking a side.
He's saying we need balance. We can't have no murder.
Also, we can't murder everyone. Therefore, we should murder some
people. Would alleviate our current
military manpower crisis, increase the connectivity
between the American public and its military, and more
responsibly use taxpayer dollars?
No, that's not responsive. That's irresponsible to coerce
people to do things against their will.
Goals in our military formations are in fact gaps in our national
security, so they really need to keep the nation safe and keep it
free. And the way to do that is to
engage in the greatest violation of freedom known to man, which
is kidnapping and enslavement and forced labor under the most
dire circumstances for theft, funded wars based on lies.
Thank you for watching. Keith and I don't tread on
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