Libertarians owe "national military service" ...

[Occam's Banana]

h/t Karen De Coster @ LRC: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/libertarians-for-conscription/

Libertarians for Conscription

From Cato, of course. This post at Cato, "The Libertarian Case for National Military Service,“ reads like satire, but alas, it is not. The author actually writes “freedom isn’t free,” and he thinks that libertarians shouldn’t recoil from the notion of mandatory military service because serving your government masters can be a “pillar of freedom” rather than a coercive and unjust oppression.

Here's the article to which De Coster refers: http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/09...ry/libertarian-case-national-military-service

Here are just a few of the putridities to be found therein:

Libertarians think it’s legitimate for the state to use violence to take people’s money.

[Libertarians] think it’s legitimate for the state to mandate children to be educated for approximately twelve years of their life.

[L]ibertarians are actually fine with the state taking people’s money and time and work if there is a sufficiently compelling interest.

Who is Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, you ask? From http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/pascal-emmanuel-gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is the founder of Noosphere, a social media market research firm. He is also a contributor at Forbes and a business and economics columnist at Atlantico.

He was formerly with Business Insider, where he co-created BI Intelligence, the company’s market research service. He also covered the technology business in Europe and globally. Gobry is a lecturer at HEC Paris business school and a mentor at startup accelerator programs SeedCamp and Le Camping. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Forbes, The Daily Beast, The Daily, Le Figaro, Rue89, techPresident, The American Scene, and even Fashionista.

He is a graduate of HEC Paris.

With "libertarians" like Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, who the hell needs statists ... ?

Apparently, this is the first of four essays on the theme "National Service: What Do We Owe?"
http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/september-2013/national-service-what-do-we-owe

Fortunately, Jacob Hornberger will be contributing the final entry on September 16th. Give 'em hell, Jacob!

 

[kcchiefs6465]

I tried to read..

 

[better-dead-than-fed]

Government should give C4 to libertarians.

 

[fr33]

I never signed up for selective service. I'd dodge 'em if they tried to draft me. Prison is better than murdering.

 

[NewRightLibertarian]

But hey, lets not badmouth any of 'our own.' Those CATO and Reason guys are just swell

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I never signed up for selective service. I'd dodge 'em if they tried to draft me. Prison is better than murdering.

Did you take a student loan? If so, you signed up for SS.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is the founder of Noosphere, a social media market research firm. He is also a contributor at Forbes and a business and economics columnist at Atlantico.

He was formerly with Business Insider,

Biz Insider is a product from mother NBC just another establishment hack trying to make a name in propaganda land.

....end trans

 

[idiom]

Pretty sure if America was ever invaded, libertarians would be the first responders.

 

[better-dead-than-fed]

Pretty sure if America was ever invaded, libertarians would be the first responders.

It hasn't been invaded already?

 

[fr33]

Did you take a student loan? If so, you signed up for SS.

Nope. Poor uneducated me.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I never signed up for selective service. I'd dodge 'em if they tried to draft me. Prison is better than murdering.

The modern state, in one line.

"We'll throw you in jail for NOT killing people."

 

[green73]

LOL

 

[MRK]

Im literally in the jungle on the other side of the world. They'll have a swell time sending me a draft notification letter here.

I've been told I should register my address with the embassy. Yeah, that's never going to happen.

 

[Christian Liberty]

Did you take a student loan? If so, you signed up for SS.

Yeah, I am signed up for that reason, but I wouldn't "serve."

 

[Origanalist]

Oooh boy. I tried to comment, this is what I wrote;

What in the world is this man babbling about?

"Libertarians think it’s legitimate for the state to use violence to take people’s money. If you don’t think taxation is legitimate, you are an anarchist, not a libertarian."

Absolutely not true. Does the author even know federal income tax started because of Lincolns war? The war that greatly expanded the role of the federal government and it's ability to coerce through threat of violence?

If our military were for defending our freedom in the advent of invasion he might have a point. It's not very hard to see that is not what it is used for.

My comment is awaiting moderator approval. Anybody want to place a bet?

 

[Christian Liberty]

Some libertarians do support taxes. He's right about that. But no libertarian can support slavery, which is what false labor is.

 

[Matthew5]

Do you even Liberty, bro?

 

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[Origanalist]

Do you even Liberty, bro?

Wow, look at the brain on...er...Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry!

 

[BSWPaulsen]

This is what you get when you put a "LIBERTARIAN" sticker on the intellectually handicapped.