National Defense
The main thing causing the erosion of liberty in the occupied
land formerly known as the United States of America is the masses
confusion between national defense and law & order.
"A standing army is always dangerous to liberty," we are told.
However, most people who are willing to concede that fact don't know why a standing army threatens liberty.
In times of peace there should be no standing army. Instead everyone
old enough to handle a gun should be trained to use it. Thus, the
individual will be able to defend himself from most acts of aggression.
Gun ownership must be mandatory. This and the enforcement of contracts
is the only reason governments should exist.
But how does a standing army turn against liberty?
Failure of the individual to take responsibility for his or her defense.
After a war instead of disbanding the army and sending them back to
being producers the masses decide to keep it. This happens for two
reasons:
First the masses would rather pay someone else to go about the unpleasant business of defending their liberty from aggression.
Second the average individual wants to tell his neighbor what he cannot
do on his own property. This could not be accomplished if there were no
standing army. He would have to personally confront his neighbor to
force his will. The other neighbor would have an opportunity to stop
the aggressive neighbor using his gun. The only chance for the one who
desires control over his neighbor is to overwhelm him with a standing
army(mercenary).
This is known as LAW ENFORCEMENT
Law enforcement work for the nobility.
A non-standing army works for the underdog. the non-standing army is made up of underdogs.
What is a non-standing army?
It is called a "militia" or "civilian army". This is based on the
concept that the masses be armed. This renders it impossible for an
armed majority to threaten the liberty of an armed minority and vice
versa.
I would go one step further by rejecting the separation of people into
civilian and military classes. Even beginning in a state of equality a
society divided into civilian and military classes will soon witness
the erosion of liberty. Laws are passed restricting the rights of the
civilian class while strengthening the rights of the military and
police class.
The founders of the united States of America tried to solve this
problem in the main body of the Constitution for the United States of
America.
Once a society is separated into civilian and police classes the
militia is transformed from a national defense body defending against
acts of aggression to a law enforcement body starting acts of
aggression.
This has brought me to some unfortunate findings:
1-The national security(i. e. national defense) of the United States of America is being undermined by law enforcement.
2-The evidence from its actions would have me conclude that the
pentagon is nothing more than a regional law enforcement office.
How could the defense department and intelligence community
responsible for overseeing the national security of the United States
of America be compromised?
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