Commentary from the liberterrain…
Libertarians reject coercion, intimidation and fraud, whether from government or individuals. Government, after all, is ultimately just a collection of individuals.
Today, and for a very long time, the individuals who run America's government violate that simple principle of decency.
America's politicians - those individuals of government - fight wars of aggression, wars of empire, wars of personal ego, and give us fraudulent reasons for doing so.
There is no longer any shred of justification for believing or trusting politicians.
There is no longer any shred of justification for the traditional mindless authority-idolizing government-worshipping knee-jerk patriotism paraded by the political right and opportunistically mimicked by the political left.
Soldiers today are not serving their country; they are simply serving their corrupt politicians.
The American military is supposed to be our protection against invasion from foreign aggressors. Instead, it has become nothing more than a plaything of the political classes.
While you're taking shrapnel in foreign lands your politician is eating caviar in the backseat of his limo on his way to his vacation condo that your stolen tax dollars bought for him.
While you're learning to walk on a prosthetic leg your politician is sending his son to Harvard with the tax money he stole from your parents.
While you're burying your buddies with flags and bugles and 21-gun salutes the politician who sent them to their deaths is having afternoon sex with his mistress.
And while your dead young body is rotting in its grave your politician is writing his self-serving ego-preening memoirs.
The only true patriotism a soldier can claim is fighting against foreign invaders who would enslave or kill his family and friends.
There is no patriotism in wars of aggression.
There is no patriotism in being used as a pawn in a politician's game of self-important strutting on a world stage.
The only way to make the politicians stop using military personnel as their own private battlefield fodder is for young people to boycott the military until the politicians have no choice but to stop their empire building and return to defending America.
This is why truly patriotic Americans who believe in freedom and decency and justice are saying, "The World Can't Wait," "We Are Not Your Soldiers!" and "Do Not Join The Military."
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