Why do people say the military is fighting for our freedom?
April 30th, 2010 by eranio
When our government is the one capable of legislating our freedom away?
I am not advocating the gutting of the military. What I want ended is our standing army.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto – “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.”
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex
Posted in Military Rifles
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
It’s an old slogan. People who use it have a convoluted and unrealistic set of fears about threats of being overrun.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Bush told them so, no other reason.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
that’s right behind ever blade of grass! And for fighting for our freedom well it’s called brainwashing.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
And right after that I can call you comrade.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Funny you should use that quote from Yamamoto when many of the same people who agree with you look for stricter and stricter laws to eventually prohibit such ownership.
I would say that 150 years ago, it was easier not to have a standing army and still defend yourself. Not so today. As long as military budgets are constitutional (no more than two years in advance) then I have no problem with having a standing Army and Navy.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
I hear ya. I get that the military fought for freedom from Britain and I think both world wars were justified. But saying that they were fighting to keep us free from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. doesn’t make any sense. I’m pretty sure the Iraqis weren’t about to march over here and enslave us.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
I wish people like you had to live on an Island with no military.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Oh yeah I trust what a foreigner says, Russian PM says America should end its standing army because there is nothing to worry about from other countries (wink,wink) were not going to invade anyone (LMFAO) OH MY GOD YOU LIBERALS ARE STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Because those people are ignorant.
The US military hasn’t fought for OUR freedom in over 150 years, they have been fighting other peoples wars.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Let’s do a quick theoretical battle.
A bunch of "guys" with rifles vs a well trained regular army unit with machine guns, tanks, bombers, cruise missiles, and artillery.
How does that turn out?
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
You do need to study your history. Hitler and Stalin, after invading a country, took away most of the common rights like freedom of speech and freedom of the press from its citizens. Nobody likes war, but sometimes there are no other options.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
We are already a free country. You can only have so much freedom without chaos.
CONS are constantely CRYING for freedom and I don’t know if they are just NUTS or if they actually want some kind of chaotic environment like the jungle. Perhaps they just want Corporations to be free because they obviously don’t care much for individual freedom. Such as marriage for queers and women’s right to choose.
Haha.. hahahahaha
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
There are a few WWII vets left out there…ask one of them.
If you can’t find a WWII vet, ask a Korea vet.
If you can’t find a Korea vet, ask a Vietnam vet.
If you can’t find a Vietnam vet, you really need to get off the internet and talk to people face to face.
Without a standing army, who would be available to assist in a natural disaster?
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
You’ve got a mixed bag here. I’m not sure what you’re suggesting. But let me try this out.
One of the main reasons that the Civil War was able to actually start was because America at the time had a very, very small standing army. For the most part, America’s military consisted of state and local militias. In essence, every state had their own army and, as you might imagine, that army was loyal to that state. So, when the shots were fired on Fort Sumpter, it wasn’t the Confederate Army firing those shots, it was the South Carolina Militia. These state militias banded together to form the Army of the Confederacy. Similar militias banded together in the north to form the U.S. Army. It is for this reason that after the Civil War, state militias were banned, for the most part, and replaced with National Guard under the command and control of the federal, not state governments.
Not saying that that would happen again, but a standing army under federal control is better train and better equiped than a civilian militias and their hunting rifles. Now, I’m not a huge fan of the federal government controling anything, but this is the exception that I make.
Trivia: The only remaining state militias left in America are those that exist at the Virginia Military Institute in Virginia and the Citadel in South Carolina. While technically ‘illegal’, they are allowed to operate and are under the direct authority of the governors of these two states.
UPDATE: If you don’t think the war in Vietnam was about American freedom, your public school education has failed you.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Probably because they forget that freedom (precious and extremely rare in history) comes from God not military force. They also forget that although America is an unquestionable champion in the historical struggle for freedom, that simply is no longer the case and we have followed the same course of the many other sporadic attempts at civilized government that now lay in ruins.
Our current standing military is by no means fighting for freedom. But they do have jobs in this worldwide police state, so mabey they should be the ones supporting us. McDonnalds after all cant hire everyone.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
"You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass" The problem with that thinking is at the start of WWII it may have been true, but is far from true today. 1940 America was more rural and self sufficient than the current US where for some the greatest exercise they get is with their thumbs and video games. The US is still an armed society but once the supply of groceries was interrupted and gas was cut off few would be able ot fend for themselves.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
A military tribunal for Congress & Executive Branches of government along with an audit of the Fed would be a great battle for Freedom with out chaos resulting.Redeploying to the northern and southern migratory paths and slow up the flow.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
No, it does not fight for freedom. It fights for the political desires of those in power at the time and over seas.