(November 30, 2018 at 11:37 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: I, personally, joined the service so that I could go and be a peacekeeper...you know, to help safeguard those personal liberties that abusive states and actors had robbed people of. Boy howdy, what a monster!
Noble intentions. But the problem with joining the armed forces is you have to obey orders. You don't have a choice as to where you will be deployed. This is why I encourage people not to join the military or the police. Perhaps its just the freedom lover in me, I could never put on a uniform and become a "yes sir" "no sir" person. We were meant to be free.
Until I figure out how to separate quotes excuse me for writing in red!
More horseshit. One of the few things that our founding documents expressly permit the government to do (rather than the laundry list of don'ts) is to smack a warlord and all of his mercs directly in the mouth. It's not even so much that this is permitted...it's the stated obligation of our government to do so...and it's to this end, not the support of fucking warlords, that we arm ourselves.
You have a disturbing affinity for warlords and the countries being ruined by them for a person so concerned with personal and religious liberties.
In a truly anarchist society there will naturally have to be warlords to ensure that a foreign power doesn't come in and try to impose order on what it considers to be chaos. It was the Afghan warlords who kicked Soviet butt and truly fulfilled the American anarchist slogan "We are ungovernable" (I saw that in the video you posted on this thread)
I admit I have a certain romantic notion about warlords, especially when they are fighting Goliath.
I also have an affinity for gun culture. I don't think any country is truly free until ordinary people can fire their machine guns or rifles or whatever into the air to celebrate a birth, wedding, etc. The servile Chinese peasant cannot even imagine that kind of freedom.
