Re: Patriot Act type legislation
Maby, possibly. The potential consiquences of being wrong on this one are pretty horiffic though. Beginning with gang bangers returning to their gangs actually knowing how to shoot and use light infantry tactics. Gangs are in fact light infantry formations who could with some training become urban warfare specialists. With the gangs taking on pollitical and racial agendas as they slowly are, I don't think thats such a good Idea.
The best soldiers are the people who want to be soldiers. I don't see how conscripting criminals is going to improve our armed forces.
I sure can spot them. I'm not talking about labeling anyone. I am talking about swift and harsh punishment the first time a kid does somthing beyond normal teenage hijinks. If they learn the law has teeth, it is less likely that there will be a second time. Thus less likely that they become career criminals.If you can spot an aspiring scumbag while he's still just aspiring, you've got a finer sense of smell than I do. And you sure as hell don't want the government to have the power to label individuals as criminals when they're still in the larval aspiring-scumbag stage.
Maybe if they enlisted on a probationary basis, without pay for two years, we could make decent soldiers out of incipient criminals.
Maby, possibly. The potential consiquences of being wrong on this one are pretty horiffic though. Beginning with gang bangers returning to their gangs actually knowing how to shoot and use light infantry tactics. Gangs are in fact light infantry formations who could with some training become urban warfare specialists. With the gangs taking on pollitical and racial agendas as they slowly are, I don't think thats such a good Idea.
The best soldiers are the people who want to be soldiers. I don't see how conscripting criminals is going to improve our armed forces.