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I perceived that you were, Marcus. It was your sincerity that prompted my reply. Or as I have even had the occasional judge need to remind me, “tone it down.”

Thank you for your genuine care for the issue. I’m incredibly passionate about the issue because it’s not an academic one.

I know many veterans who have contacted me over the years over their injuries from the DoD injecting them or giving them all manner of crazy shit - that’s in addition to the normal “regularly risking life & limb” just in training.

It’s beyond the pale. I hope the all volunteer force breaks. I hope no one falls for the recruiting BS and the well goes dry. Let the sons of the scions go fight their daddies’ wars.

The draft over Vietnam is what turned the tide. It was when judges and rich people’s kids start having to come home in coffins and lose limbs and eyeballs and they have to look at it every Thanksgiving and Christmas that you suddenly get concerns about the “legality of the war.”

Read Smedley Butler’s short, publicly available speech/book, written in the 1930s, “War is a Racket.”

Smedley had 2 MOHs and was also the son of a lifelong Congressman from NY. Smedley “had the receipts,” as they say note. He named names and put numbers to it.

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