Didn't know you so needed the help, AmeriKa.
"Civic service; Germans aid needy here in place of military duty" by Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff | May 15, 2010
GREAT BARRINGTON — Idealistic young Americans who volunteer for the Peace Corps can find themselves in impoverished villages from Mexico to Mongolia. But for some Germans seeking an alternative to mandatory military service, the path has led to a blissful year on a bucolic farm in the Berkshires....
Yeah, it's nice and PEACEFUL out here.
What brought Thomas Hald, a 20-year-old from Stuttgart, and several other Germans to the Berkshires was an aversion to military service, nine months of which is required of all young German men unless they receive a waiver as a conscientious objector. “I don’t want to shoot people,’’ Hald said. “My religious beliefs are not OK with killing.’’
But my government is.
Hald and Dominik Bergmann, a 22-year-old from Frankfurt who also works at the farm, are part of a German government program called Zivildienst, in which conscientious objectors apply for civilian service, primarily in social work....
I am OPPOSED to STATE-MANDATED ANYTHING, sorry!
I am FOR FREEDOM and the TWO APPARENTLY do NOT COEXIST because MY GOVERNMENT is doing a SHIT JOB of PROTECTING MY RIGHTS!
They are TAKING THEM AWAY!!!
Being COMPELLED to DO ANYTHING for the STATE is ANTITHETICAL to FREEDOM!
A German government official, who asked not to be identified, said that opting out of the military is not difficult. The workers at North Plain Farm echoed that view, which they suggested has been heavily influenced by the burdens of German history.
Sigh.
Yeah they got that guilt trip going all right.
“Because of our history, for us, it’s a little bit different view,’’ said Bela Winsmann, 20, a German who works at a nearby home.
I WISH AmeriKans would WAKE UP to ITS OWN HISTORY!
At home, Hald said, military recruiting commercials do not appear on television as they do in the United States....
Yeah, the EMPIRE PLOWS TONS of TAX DOLLARS into ENCOURAGING MORE WAR here!
Do you RECOGNIZE ANYTHING about AmeriKa these days, Germans?
If anyone could, it ought to be you.
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