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Citizen Soldier



This is the level of statist civil-service “bring American-style business values to faraway places” propaganda they are showing nowadays before popular movies at the movie theatres…


Compare to:

The Crusades introduced the golden age of chivalry, and the crusader was the pattern of the perfect knight. The rescue of the holy places of Palestine from Moslem domination and the defense of pilgrims became the new object of his vow. In return, the Church took him under her protection in a special way, and conferred upon him exceptional temporal and spiritual privileges, such as the remission of all penances, dispensation from the jurisdiction of the secular courts, and as a means of defraying the expenses of the journey to the Holy Land, knights were granted the tenth of all the church revenues. The vow of the crusader was limited to a specified period. For the distant expeditions into Asia, the average time was two or three years.

More on this theme to follow. See also Garrett on Law Enforcement.







2 Reader Responses

  1. Tim Boucher Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 12:59 am

    Same source:

    After the conquest of Jerusalem, the necessity of a standing army became peremptory, in order to prevent the loss of the Holy City to surrounding hostile nations. Out of this necessity arose the military orders which adopted as a fourth monastic vow that of perpetual warfare against the infidels. In these orders, wherein was realized the perfect fusion of the religious and the military spirit, chivalry reached its apogee. […] Like the monastic, the knightly vow bound with common ties warriors of every nation and condition, and enrolled them in a vast brotherhood of manners, ideals, and aims. The secular brotherhood had, like the regular its rule imposing on its members fidelity to their; lords and to their word, fair play on the battlefield, and the observance of the maxims of honour and courtesy.

  2. Tim Boucher Says:
    January 8th, 2008 at 1:09 am

    It occurs to me that the true purpose of a video like this is not necessarily just to get people to want to join the National Guard, but to chain together non-conscious feeling/image associations within the minds of passive infotainment consumers.



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