Reply #30: I totally agree. Anyone that is or was in the military that has this mindset are dangerous.

[LiberalFighter]

I respect the military for the most part. And I respect those in military that serve for the right reasons. But I will not respect every one of them. Those in the military that argue that they fight for or protecting our freedom are either full of it or need to downsize their ego. They are dangerous to our society.

There is also a difference between those that enlist and those that were drafted back in the old days. On the one hand I give more support to those that were drafted because they didn't have a choice. Some did enlist because there were advantages to it when they knew they would get drafted. Some enlisted because it was either that or go to jail. On the other hand I give some support to those that enlisted when there wasn't a draft. Even that group have those that enlisted for various reasons. Some good and some bad and some had no real choice in the matter.

I would rather give respect to those on an individual basis. I sure as hell wouldn't give Ollie North any respect! Or give credence to anything the jackass has to say. He sure as hell wasn't fighting for our freedom. And he sure as hell isn't a hero.

If they were all such honorable men and women they wouldn't need military tribunals and wouldn't have to worry about putting them in the stockades or court-martialing them.

Back to our freedoms. Those freedoms were won initially not by the military but citizens that decided that enough was enough when they declared independence from Great Britain. And it was citizens not the military that created the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If we didn't have the Constitution and Bill of Rights those in the military wouldn't be kept in check. They would be dictating to the government and the citizens what we could or could not be doing.

The military play an important part in our freedom but so do the citizens and those within the non-military community.