| Joe Zitzelberger 2005-01-10, 3:55 pm |
| In article <41DD7C4C.86831DB7@mb.sympatico.ca>,
Peter Lacey <lacey@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Joe Zitzelberger wrote:
>
> Is the Army populated wholly by volunteers these days? I ask because I
> don't know.
Completely and only by volunteers. The last draftee separated or
voluntarily reenlisted in lat 1974 or early 1975.
>
> But the president is the C-in-C, isn't he?
Yes. But that only goes so far when giving unlawful orders.
>
> "Government" is a collective noun which subsumes all the people who work
> in or for the governing body of the country. As such, the elected
> portion tends to reflect the characteristics of the electorate - which
> as a whole is not well educated, well read, or even very attentive to
> the issues. (Not just in the US, everywhere with free elections). And
> ("Yes Minister" notwithstanding) since the elected control the
> government that means that it is a poorly educated, poorly read,
> inattentive organism. You gets what you pays for!
>
> So it's no wonder that you had to do guard duty with unloaded weapons.
> I'd wonder if somewhere in your chain of command there wasn't somebody
> on the take.
Naaaa, they were just afraid of the bad PR if one of their guards shot
an intruder in the motor pool.
> Still and all, I'll keep to my opinion. Ordinary citizens can't defend
> themselves against the government unless they can muster similar
> resources.
>
> PL
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