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Michael Caine
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Subject: But is it Good Enough for Michael Caine?
In an article in the Chicago Sun Times titled,
Mandatory
national service would help kids, Michael Caine continues
on his push to institute mandatory national service for every youth
in Britain, something that I wrote about here,
here and here.
But even though that proposal has not yet been implemented in the U.K.,
he has now come to our shores to make sure that the youth of America
don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to be indoctrinated into
their proper role as servants to the state.
In response to the article, I had these comments:
So, Mr. Caine identifies some problems, and his solution is to
violate the individual rights of every citizen by enslaving them;
forcing every young adult, regardless of their personal desires,
character or behavior, to perform mandatory national service under
the marching orders of the government.
Mr. Caine thinks that forcing people to give up a portion of their
lives and requiring them to engage in activities against their will
will make them "better" — at least as he defines it. Well,
I'm skeptical and would like to put it to the test before rolling
it out as a national program. I suggest that if he believes that
his ideas are so great, he should be willing to submit to them
himself. Let's conscript Mr. Caine and put him to work for the
next two years of his life doing something socially redeeming such
as reading to the elderly in nursing homes or possibly picking up
trash alongside the road. Certainly he can put his acting career
on hold for a while, in order to be trained to be a better person.
Because in my view, Mr. Caine is seriously deficient in his
understanding of what freedom actually means, and I think he would
benefit immensely from a couple of years of the old
"reeducation" in this subject. I feel certain that a
healthy stint of being treated as a slave, ordered around at the
direction of others, performing tasks that he did not choose for
himself, would help Mr. Caine to open his eyes and reconsider what
the right to ones own life actually means. And I am positive that
he would come out of this process a better man.
Who's with me? Let's help Michael realize the error of his ways
and transform him from his current state as a shill for
totalitarianism into a shining advocate for liberty for all. It's
for his own good! And, according to Michael, that's all the
justification that we need.
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