{"id":359,"date":"2014-10-21T11:35:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=359"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T11:35:53","slug":"the-ron-paul-institute-for-peace-and-prosperity-national-service-is-anti-liberty-and-un-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/archives\/featured-articles\/2014\/october\/19\/national-service-is-anti-liberty-and-un-american.aspx?author=Ron+Paul\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #111111; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">Former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently called on the government to force young people to spend two years either \u201cserving\u201d in the military or performing some other type of government-directed \u201ccommunity service.\u201d Neoconservative Senator John McCain has introduced legislation creating a mandatory national service program very similar to Reich\u2019s proposal. It is not surprising that both a prominent progressive and a leading neocon would support mandatory national service, as this is an issue that has long united authoritarians on the left and right.\u00a0<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>Proponents of national service claim that young people have a moral obligation to give something back to society. But giving the government power to decide our moral obligations is an invitation to totalitarianism.\u00a0<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/><br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>Mandatory national service is not just anti-liberty, it is un-American. Whether or not they admit it, supporters of mandatory national service do not believe that individuals have \u201cinalienable rights.\u201d Instead, they believe that rights are gifts from the government, and, since government is the source of our rights, government can abridge or even take away those rights whenever Congress decides.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity : National Service is Anti-Liberty and Un-American. Former Clinton Administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently called on the government to force young people to spend two years either \u201cserving\u201d in the military or performing some other type of government-directed \u201ccommunity service.\u201d Neoconservative Senator John McCain has introduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[379,527,552,862],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-government","tag-military-draft","tag-national-service","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}