11-14-2009
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Australia
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Subject: Conscription: It's Not Just For Crime Any Longer
Apparently, after listening to Michael Caine
spouting off in England this past week, certain people in Australia
got the message and decided to up him one. As reported by Steve
Lilleubuen in an article titled:
Conscription urged to fight crime, fires
A leading youth worker is calling for a return to national
service to combat street violence, unemployment and even
devastating bushfires.
Young men and women should be forced into the military through
a universal conscription scheme after completing their high
school exams, says Les Twentyman, a Melbourne social worker
and former teacher who is pitching the controversial idea to
the Federal Government.
Under Mr Twentyman's proposal, the national service program
would last 18 months and be called "Australian Education
Services".
Youths who go on to a post-secondary education, an
apprenticeship, a professional sports contract or skilled
full-time work after high school would be exempt from joining
the service.
But those youths who fall through the cracks earlier than Year
12 could be forced to join as young as 14 through alternative
measures in the courts to avoid jail time.
Such a program is desperately needed to pull back a rising
tide of social issues that has spiked crime rates and gang
activity, Mr Twentyman says.
He said it would have off-shoot economic benefits by training
the next generation with new skills and lowering obesity rates
through intensive physical training.
[...]
National service members would also be enlisted to help during
bushfire season, assisting fire authorities in controlled
burning, fire fighting and rebuilding efforts.
Neighbourhoods would be cleaned up by the national service,
removing graffiti and debris after disasters, working
hand-in-hand with state emergency services.
[...]
"It's not like you're going to be punished or be at a boot
camp," he said.
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Mr. Twentyman has got Michael Caine beat by a mile! While Caine only
wanted to reduce violence, Twentyman isn't about to be stopped by such
shallow thinking. He is going to address crime and brushfires
too. And he'll clean up the country's graffiti and trash to boot!
But wait. That's not all!! If you pick up the legislative gavel and
pass the law right now, he is going toss in, at no extra cost, the
solution to societies child obesity problem as well! How, you ask?
Why "through intensive physical training". But don't
worry, because he promises, "It's not like you're going to be
punished or be at a boot camp". Whew, I was getting a bit
concerned for a moment.
There is nothing contained in this Australian proposal that is not
being pushed to an even larger degree by the current Obama
administration and the entrenched members of Congress. Do what is
necessary to put the breaks on this movement before it is too late.
And one additional disturbing fact. Mr. Twentyman justifies his call
for mandatory nationwide service as follows:
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National service had to be mandatory because it would become
too stigmatised if it only focused on troubled youths, he said.
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So, honest, friendly, well-behaved, law-abiding children must be
enslaved so that we don't stigmatize those who are violent and
commit crimes! This is becoming a familiar world-wide theme and is
one of Obama's mantras. You need look no further than this single
sentence to see with crystal clarity that egalitarianism and
self-sacrifice are among the most evil ideas ever perpetrated upon
mankind. Under the principle of treating everyone "fairly" and
"equatability", all must be reduced to the lowest common denominator.
The good is reduced to the bad; the heroic to the craven; the
law-abiding are to be treated the same as the criminal; the productive
stripped of their earnings so that they may rise no higher than the
shiftless.
Anyone who supports this view of man and this concept of inverted
"justice" is nothing more than a destroyer.
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