Reject the Un-American Call for “National Service”

Published: September 12, 2007, 5:57 pm

Tags: child takeover, fascism, social engineering

The Nazi Reich Arbeit Dienst (RAD), National Service program: “We Build Body and Soul” Aynrand.org Sep 11, 2007 Irvine, CA–The lead article in a recent issue of Time magazine makes the case for “universal national service”–which the article describes as “the simple but compelling idea that devoting a year or more to national service, whether military or civilian, should become a countrywide rite of passage, the common expectation and widespread experience of virtually every young American.” Many commentators and politicians have called in recent years for Americans to engage in more national service, which they claim is necessary to preserve and sustain America’s greatness. The Time article calls it “a recipe for keeping a republic.” “In fact,” said Alex Epstein, a junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, “the idea of ‘national service’ is profoundly un-American. America was founded on

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