Well... this is certainly horrifying... new National Guard ad.

Why can't we point out the negatives of what is happening in the military without being dumped on as unpatriotic or being labeled unsupportive of the soldier. WE ARE THE ONLY ONES, thinking of the soldiers if you ask me.

NO one else is willing to bring up the horrible things that the soldiers are going through, dying for a corporate advertisement of lies. The ad states that the "mission is priority one". That is scary thought, it brings to mind "War for Oil and Poppy fields" Disarming homeowners after Katrina.

If all is well in the military, why are so many committing suicide. The young people bought into the advertising lies. These young people have a case for a lawsuit, this ad is false advertising. Gen. Smedley Butler book sums it up best "War is a Racket. Of course we NEED a National Guard, but until people in and out of the service admit there are problems then those problems will never be fixed. Shouldn't we be joining forces to expose the corrupt so the good and noble can take their place.

Seeing as we are currently in soft fascism as Ron Paul has said I am more fearful of my own National Guard than other countries invading, the police state is a real and looming threat. I see the only way of changing things is to boycott recruiting offices "career centers" and dry up their source of "cannon fodder" for the elite.

I support the soldier, not the Corporate Military Industrial Complex.

need to explain my "horror".

The leaders of the nation have been shredding and burning the Constitution and Bill of Rights for decades. They see no use for such an old and useless document, and don't allow it to hinder them in their move toward dictatorship. Basically these documents are OBSOLETE in the society we currently live in, and under the government officials that we now have. The individual, in the nation we have now, has NO protection of his God given rights in any of the branches of government any more, as even the COURTS are thowing the Constitution and Bill of Rights under the bus if the issue they address is for "the greater good".

Via the use of "administrative law" and "presidential decrees" and unconstitutional laws passed in Washington, we are no longer allowed to enjoy our God given rights to free speech, private property, right of assembly, etc. They have ELIMINATED these rights little by little over the past 50 or so years. The country is NO LONGER OPERATED under the protection of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

But, these same government officials want young people to go and fight to "defend" these same (non-existent) documents that define these rights, just so that the rulers can line their pockets and grow their power. Many in the government own shares of "war making" companies and grow richer and richer with each new war. And our individual liberties are hacked away with each new incident. So the "wars" are, in fact a huge contributing factor in this burning of the country's founding documents. (And the National Guard is now being used OVERSEAS to aid in these illegal and unwarranted wars, rather than for their initial purpose of defending the GEOGRAPHICAL area of the United States).

I am all for defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And I would like nothing better than for young people to be educated in the philosophy of freedom so that they might fight (perhaps in state MILITIAS) to REINSTATE these documents as the founding principles of life in the U.S. But to seduce young people to fight for the profit of the "evil ones"..... under the GUISE of fighting for something that no longer exists, is, in my opinion, a very cruel joke.

And, you make my point on the target audience for these ads in your statement "the target audience for this ad are those playing World of Warcraft and other MMORGs who have to listen to similar soundtracks while they quest".

What I find horrifying, in that I have children and grandchildren, is that I know the weak areas of young people. They are growing and confused and easily manipulated. They have a desperate desire to "belong" and "become their own person" and break away. This ad is specifically aimed at taking that feeling of being lost, and "filling the hole" with the meaning of belonging to something noble and EXCITING. And it WOULD be something noble, if the country was actually as it is portrayed.... a Constitutional Republic which protects our God given rights.

This ad is aimed ENTIRELY at these "young skulls full of mush". It doesn't show the horrors that they will encounter. It doesn't (of course) tell them the truth about the realities of military life. It makes it all look grand and fun and gets those hormones rushing.

And MOST particularly, now that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are essentially non-existent anymore..... to make a young person feel they are fighting to "preserve" something that is a virtual fantasy in the modern world, is merely trying to lure them into giving up their lives, their health and their sanity..... for a dream..... or worse... to line the pockets of the evil ones with their own blood.

Believe me, I LONG for the day that the United States can say that it actually lives up to the philosophy on which it was founded. But until that day comes, I am entirely opposed to young people joining the GOVERNMENT military forces. Since (at the very least) the days of Vietnam, the government has treated our military personnel with apathy and distain. They cut their benefits and deny them coverage, many times for diseases caused by the very government that asked them to join.

I hope you do well in your campaign. I believe you truly are a "Liberty" candidate and wish to reinstate a government of laws meant to protect the individual. I think our disagreement is merely our outlook on how the government is USING its military in THIS day and age.

I wonder what the Prom will be like?