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Get Your Kids Fit For Slaughter!

November 13th, 2009

Although ancient Sparta was not without its virtues — among them courage, loyalty, and discipline — it wasn’t a free society in any sense. It was said that Sparta was always either at war or preparing for war, and those preparations began at the earliest possible age.

The Spartan state made a proprietary claim on each child shortly after he was born. The infant would be given a physical examination for defects that would impair his ability to serve as a soldier. If such imperfections were found, Plutarch informs us, the child would be cast off a cliff to his death. If the child passed that inspection he would soon be bonded to an older warrior who would raise him as the state’s child and prepare him to fight the state’s wars.


While Sparta’s virtues are difficult to find in contemporary America, some of its vices are well-represented. For instance, our ruling elite has arranged things in such a way that they are always sending Americans to war, or searching for new enemies to justify the permanent warfare state.

This requires a steady and growing supply of trigger-pullers and coffin-stuffers, and the people who preside over the bipartisan warfare state are worried that American kids simply aren’t fit for slaughter.

Mission: Readiness — Military Leaders for Kids, a new Pentagon-aligned pressure group, recently published a report entitled Ready, Willing, and Unable to Serve. That document invites us to be horrified by the Pentagon’s claim that “75 percent of Americans 17 to 24-years-old are ineligible to serve in our military,” generally because of “inadequate education, a criminal background, or excess weight.”

That is to say: Our kids are supposedly too fat and stupid to serve as IED-bait on some distant battlefield.

Speaking on behalf of the warfare state, Mission: Readiness demands a dramatic enhancement of the welfare state in the form of expanded federal funding for “quality early childhood education” programs.

“We must invest now in the next generation to preserve our nation’s security, freedom, and opportunity,” the group insists in the boilerplate language of Beltway lobbyists. “We call on all policymakers to ensure America’s national security by supporting interventions that will prepare young people for a life of military service and productive citizenship” –

Wait a minute. The objective here is to create a uniform national effort intended to “prepare young people for a life of military service”?

To these nostrils that phrase smells like an oblique warning that the Regime is preparing to re-impose military slavery (more commonly called the draft). That impression is buttressed by the Starship Troopers-style rhetoric equating government-mandated “service” with “citizenship.”

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It is toward the end of raising an improved quality of cannon fodder that Mission:Readiness is demanding a wraparound welfare state — call it “Sparta Lite” — in which the preparation for military service would begin in the cradle. And the retired military officials who compose the organization’s membership — a veritable stockyard of War Pigs — are already drawing up plans for children not yet old enough to crawl.

“Our national security in the year 2030 is absolutely dependent upon what is going on in pre-kindergarten today,” declares Rear Admiral James Barnett, U.S. Navy (Ret.). That remark contains a veiled by unmistakable proprietary claim on all American children, including mine.

Those of us who have children look on each of them as a unique blessing from God to be loved, taught, and protected. People like Barnett look on them as fungible “national security” assets to be squandered in whatever idiotic wars our rulers arrange. They also see parents as a potential obstacle to achievement of their “national security” objectives; this was demonstrated by a recent Pentagon recruiting campaign intended to overcome parental opposition to enlistment.

If we could see things as they really are, this is how we would perceive the results of successful military recruitment.

“If members of Congress, governors, and state legislators act now to ramp up both the quantity and quality of early education programs, they can count on strong support from the retired generals of Mission: Readiness,” promises the group’s report.

This most likely foreshadows a pressure campaign in which retired flag and star officers will be deployed nation-wide to act as lobbyists for the welfare bureaucracy and government education racket.

Aristotle famously warned that children raised by “society” are equally neglected by everybody. By collectivizing responsibility for the upbringing of children, the welfare state abets that kind of neglect.

It took trillions of dollars spent on the welfare system and government school establishment to bring about the dismal social conditions lamented by Mission: Readiness. Rather than recommending a radically different approach, the group demands that the government spend additional sums to expand the same policies that produced the disaster.

I’m cynical enough to believe that the people behind that campaign are very much aware that their policy prescriptions would exacerbate many of the problems they describe, and that they intend to capitalize on the resulting social damage. Where the needs of the military-industrial complex are concerned, that approach has worked very well.

Of the fighting men sent into Iraq in 2003, Evan Wright writes the following in his recent book Generation Kill:

“These young men represent what is more or less America’s first generation of disposable children. More than half of the guys in the platoon [the second platoon of the Bravo Company of the Marine Corps' First Recon Battalion, with which Wright was embedded] come from broken homes and were raised by absentee, single, working parents. Many are on more intimate terms with video games, reality TV shows and Internet porn than they are with their own parents.”

“We’re like America’s little pit bull,” commented one Marine to Wright. “They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.” Perhaps this is why the crop of warfighters harvested from our current culture displays far fewer compunctions about killing, even in a war most of them admit was begun for palpably false reasons.

“In World War II, when Marines hit the beaches, a surprisingly high percentage of them didn’t fire their weapons, even when faced with direct enemy contact,” one lieutenant informed Wright. “Not these guys. Did you see what they did to that town? They f*****g destroyed it. These guys have no problem with killing.”

The military is the state’s apparatus of murder and property destruction. The welfare state is an instrument of social demolition. They really are complimentary sides of the same debased coin.

Obiter Dicta

I’ve been traveling of late, which helps explain the week-long delay in publishing a new post. I appreciate your patience.

Yesterday (November 11), my family played host to a film crew from CNN International, which was conducting interviews and shooting footage for a story about the Christian Exodus movement, with which I’m peripherally involved. The piece should air sometime in January or February; I promise that I’ll provide details as they become available.

On the subject of Sparta’s despotic regime: One of the very first things done by Lycurgus, the founder of the proto-fascist Spartan state, was to criminalize the use of gold and silver and to issue worthless, brittle iron slugs for use as legal tender. Tyrants really are a predictable lot, aren’t they?


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Dum spiro, pugno!

Posted by William N. Grigg at 6:00 PM

15 comments:

Anonymous said…

Hey! I was drafted and I loved the Army! In fact, I loved it so much that when they come for my kids, they had better bring lots of friends and plenty of ammunition.
8:57 PM

liberranter said…

“We call on all policymakers to ensure America’s national security by supporting interventions that will prepare young people for a life of military service and productive citizenship” –One of the organizations that the State has already co-opted to this end is the Boy Scouts of Ameri[k]a. I attended my six-year-old grandson’s scout meeting the other night, the theme of which was, of course, Veteran’s Day. Little did I know that we would be treated to a sickening stream of statist propaganda, directed at boys ages six to eleven, by a semi-literate, war-worshiping, megalomaniac warrior-wannabe with a Napolean complex who dares call himself a “leader.” (Alas, as a non-custodial grandparent, I do not have legal guardianship of my grandson that would give me a final say in his affairs. If I did, the LAST organization he would have any part of is the Scouts.)

One of the things this state-worshiping, collectivist clown attempted to drill into the assembly of impressionable young minds is that the flag is a symbol to be revered at all costs, never mind the fact that everything it allegedly symbolizes has been visibly obliterated by the onslaught of the relentless fascist state collectivism that he so avidly wants his scouts to advance. Worse still were the other parents in attendance, a herd of living, breathing examples of the acerebral collectivism that is the contemporary character of the nation. They literally cheered this guy on as he made the scouts stand at rigid attention while he harangued them with vapid lectures on “patriotism” that would have embarrassed George M. Cohan. I kept my mouth shut out of respect for the boys, not wanting to start an argument in that venue. However, they’ve seen the last of me and, with a little persuasion in my daughter’s direction, they might have seen the last of my grandson. Fortunately, being only six years old, most of what is said that is not obviously relevant or interesting goes in one little ear and out the other, so the damage so far to his natural inclination for freedom is probably minimal.

Parents, beware of ANY organization seeking your children’s membership that has even indirect ties to the State. Given their inherently collectivist nature and their hostility toward individualism, such organizations are toxic to the attempts of any parent to inculcate a love of liberty in their offspring. Since almost ALL children’s social organizations meet the aforementioned criteria, avoid them all like the plague!

9:21 PM

Lemuel Gulliver said…

Liberranter,Excellent observations. Right on the money. (I was about to say right on target, but changed my mind.) I’m still thinking what to say about this article. For now, everyone should read “War is a Racket” by Maj.General Smedley Butler:

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

One of the best articles extant on the subject by one of the best qualified commentators on the subject, the only man in history ever to win TWO Congressional Medals of Honor.

Yours in hopes of a change in human nature*,
Lemuel.

* PS: From Sparta, 500 BC, to Amerika, 2009 AD. Don’t hold your breath.

1:30 AM

MoT said…

I used to support the “Scouts” in their fight to have the final say in who can or cannot be a “leader”. My feelings are that any organization, be it Scouts or not, should have the freedom to decide who it wishes to work with it, join, etc. That’s called freedom of association. You don’t have to like it to respect their right, and the right of anyone else, to do so. Having said that I do not support them in their desire to indoctrinate anyone into what I consider to be a pseudo young pioneer or Hitler youth organization. Same for Ameri-corps etc. etc. etc. Any collectivist group that raises the State to Olympian levels, and give pieces of cloth divine properties, is to be avoided. Maybe I’m just odd but I’ve never had a problem identifying which country I lived in so never felt the inclination to advertise its flag.
8:40 AM

kirk said…

Fodder for imperial aspirations just happens to be someone’s child, always someone ELSE’s child when referring to our lords and masters of the universe, and the low regard in which these children are held (shown by USING them to further imperialism, not defense)speaks loudly to the black hearts that have floated to the top in what has become cesspool amerika.Every election, many say they are voting for the “lesser evil” and the EMBRACE of evil, lesser or not, has worked its black magic and has, as evil ultimately does when embraced, ruined that which has embraced it. It just so happens that America become amerika is because evil has been embraced wholeheartedly by the majority of the voting public who are under the illusion that either major party will ever change a thing. The children of these voters pay the ultimate price for the evil embraced by their parents.

I despair of any change from within. Our only hope any longer for real change is from an outside influence that shuts off the lifeblood of the empire – money. Unless and until that happens, we are destined to continue being the bully of the planet, despised by all. This is disgusting.

9:12 AM

Anonymous said…

Boys love war — there’s the eternal rub. Check out “Lord of the Flies” again as a reminder of many teenager’s innate bloodlust. “Call to Duty” just came out with multiple millions of copies pre-sold. The military is smiling at this video cannon-fodder recruitment tool. When you’re 18-25 you’re a hormone-fueled maniac; the military knows that and plays on it, as do the video game makers.
10:08 AM

Anonymous said…

I indoctrinated my kids from the earliest possible age, about 3 about the military. I showed them pictures of American soldiers with their guts hanging out and limbs blown off. I’ve taken them to military cemeteries and shown them all the kids who will never have families of their own because of the disgusting greed and lies of this government. My son cried himself to sleep for weeks. I made them read the Smedly Butler piece.
There is not a snow balls chance in hell that my kids or their kids will ever have anything whatsoever to do with the military. My daughter still gets nauseous when she sees a military uniform. I also made sure they have and will maintain a foreign passport so if the draft returns they can get out.
Any sane parent who loves his kids would do the same.
10:17 AM

RichJ said…

I was thinking the Hessians were a better example of where our country was headed. Except that we seem to be working for free, as the Zionists pulling our strings never pay us.Not only do we fight their wars for them, but we send them billions of dollars in tribute at the same time.

At some point we are gonna have to point our rifles at the real enemy, not a bunch of third world peasants.

Vote with your wallet… buy more ammo.

10:50 AM

liberranter said…

Anon 10:17 :An excellent strategy! I only wish I had started with my grandson along that same path when he was an infant. It would have been an uphill battle, though (in fact, it still is). While it is I who wasted nearly two decades of my life as one of Uncle Sam’s mercenaries and who has been dedicating the remainder of my life to ensuring that other young people not make the same mistake, I live with a wife and child who still have not quite seen the light. Fortunately, events are rapidly leading them out of their lives of darkness, meaning that I will soon have all the support I need in ensuring that this young light of my life stays far away from Onkel Sam’s Todverein.

12:56 PM

light2609 said…

We have lost control of our country folks. Time is short, we must act. The time is ripe for mass civil disobedience and dissent. We must organize and unite and be prepared for the possible repercussions of mass rebellion. Please visit AMERICANRESISTANCEMOVEMENT.COM. Find like minded people in your area, unite and prepare. We are on the cusp of losing open access to the internet and freedom of movement. Martial law is near!!! A.R.M. yourself!!!
1:17 PM

Chris said…

While I agree with your analysis, please know that the movie “Starship Troopers” bears little resemblance to the original book. In fact, when the (Dutch) director of the movie dies, there will be a line of Heinlein fans several mile long to p*ss on his grave for what he did.The future society in the book only extended the vote to those who had performed some sort of government service, on the theory that people who do not have a connection to a group larger than their family may not be the ideal voters to decide who gets to set policy for a nation.

Now, as a libertarian anarchist, I’d rather not have a nation that people need to feel an emotional attachment to, but it’s somewhat better than having people that pay no taxes, but rather are paid with taxes stolen from others, vote themselves more and more largesse.

Besides, it would be really difficult to engage in war if there is not a large, centralized government to coerce and/or cajole young men into shooting at strangers.

1:43 PM

Notorious Roscoe said…

Lone voice of support for the idea: Starship Troopers author set forth the idea that only by placing your body between the population you serve and any threat to that population can a person demonstrate the commitment necessary to earn the rights of citizenship. He felt an honorable discharge from an armed force was the only valid credential for such things as owning weapons, serving in offices of special trust, voting, and serving as elected or appointed officials. Veterans, he said, know what to expect from each other, and know what to deliver. Veterans are citizens. The rest are fit only to be taxpayers. I happen to agree.
2:06 PM

William N. Grigg said…

Veterans are citizens. The rest are fit only to be taxpayers. I happen to agree.So those of us who earn our living through mutually beneficial, voluntary exchange, rather than through tax-consumption, are fit only to be disarmed slaves (forgive the tautology)?

While Heinlein projected that social arrangement as a possible future, I really don’t think that he favored that outcome.

4:16 PM

Jim said…

As was mentioned, the state does not have the final say in this matter. Parents can teach their children otherwise.
4:42 PM

Doc Ellis said…

Notorious Roscoe 206,Are you claiming that Heinlein advocated your veterans v taxpayers scenario? How do these vets protect taxpayers? Through waging war? If they are not defending the taxpayers, aren’t they then parasites? Are you saying that humans are valid to the degree that they serve the greater good? If so, who defines the greater good, who defines the threat to that greater good, who decides who defends that greater good, who decides who pays, and who collects?

Do you believe that some one else has the authority to direct your life as a resource?

Do you think that you have a right to kill me if I refuse to pay for your adventures in the name of protecting someone else?
Are you really freedom-oriented? Or are you just another collectivist flying liberty colours?

Dude, you inspired me…

Doc Ellis 124

5:03 PM

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2 Responses to “Get Your Kids Fit For Slaughter!”

  1. stonewall Says:
    November 15th, 2009 at 12:54 pm

    Overall the U.S. military command aka Pentagon, has become as morally and intellectually bancrupt as their treasonous, looney tune civilian massas in Washington. The U.S. military has devolved into a souless, mercenary army as cruel and without honor as the Roman Legions who were sent all over the world to secure and maintain a world order, while the country of their birth was flushed down the toilet. As a vet, I realise that their are a myriad of good, devout, compassionate warriors in service, daily fighting the good fight to stand tall for values, some in positions of some authority, but these are not the ones running the big show. They would gladly give their lives for America’s freedom, if they ever found themselves in a fight that had something to do WITH freedom! Instead, they are deploy all over the world in various nation-building missions. Nation-building, meaning that countries are destabalized, then reconfigured to fit the design of the NWO architects. In growing numbers, commanders mindlessly follow and in turn give unlawful orders, in the name of “just doing my job sir.” Yes, need I say, like Nazis running the death camps. I’m not anti-war, merely in favor of correctly identifying the real enemy.

    Americans have always been a patriotic bunch
    and never backed down from a fight

    Time and again we’ve gone to war.
    believen our cause was right.

    Only to learn later that we were lied to so we’d sacrifice those we treasured
    so the ruling class can seize more power, their evil can’t be measure.

    Anyone who’s studied the facts knows that Pearl Harbor could have been averted
    But Roosevelt wanted us in that war, a cause we thought righteous now seems perverted

    So many instances of covert ops, because war needs justification
    so the government will even attack itself, it’s called False Flag operation

    the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a all a lie told by LBJ
    nobody knew why we were in asia except the President wanted it that way

    and so 58,000 Americans died in viet nam
    if the govt. had wanted to win that war, it would have only taken one bomb.

    While the facts prove 9-11 was a false flag, yep another inside job
    if you say it they call you part of the crazy conspiracy mob.

    But it gave Washington what they wanted
    a 100yr “war on terror.”

    To establish a New World Order
    correct me if you think i’m in error.

    We have troops in 140 countries with 800 bases oversees
    you’re told their fighting for freedom, but their used as mercenaries

    While at home, the EPA, DEA, ATF, IRS, FEMA and the FBI
    grow more and more outta hand

    An out of control federal govt is a greater threat
    than Alcaida or the Taliban

    ben laden was a scapegoat, we seem to have fallen for the ploy.
    ignoring the fact that the power to tax is the REAL power to destroy.

    We’vd the finest military in the world no doubt.
    of courage and skill they’ve no lack

    let’s bring em home to fight the terrorists in washington
    and take our government back.

    Deo Vindice

  2. benchechesblog Says:
    January 7th, 2010 at 9:48 pm

    I don’t really see the connection with providing well fare and recruiting people as the nations pit bulls unless you mean not providing social well fare is the way to push people into the army in search of health provisions for themselves and their families.I agree with most of what your saying though. I do find it ironic that so many people identify with the pit bull. The pit bull is a dog that couldn’t survive 2 generations in the wild. They don’t run away so they would attack a bear or something bigger than them and their desire to fight would be greater than their instinct to survive. They can’t survive with out their masters. Most other breads of dogs could manage to survive.If you must have an army of men who identify with dogs then they’d be best to identify with Labradors; loyal, playful, gentle, have been known to fight to death but also know when to run away. Better still people who understand that compromise is not a dirty word and who understand the implications of the Milgram study and that putting obedience to authority at the top of your hierarchy of morals is what leads to war crimes.

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