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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Mantis Toboggan" data-source="post: 1358703" data-attributes="member: 14493">That's a worthy aim but it isn't really the same thing. If you're talking something approximating a parallel institution to the US military, you're talking the various forms of armed citizen groups. Those certainly exist, but they are comprised in large part either of military veterans or people who were trained by veterans. The training and potentially combat experience you get in the military (mainly talking Army/Marine Corps here) are difficult to impossible to replicate in the civilian world.Having allies on the inside of the power structure is invaluable. If we want to turn back the tide of globohomo instead of merely surviving long enough to pass the burden to the next generation it will be helpful to co-opt existing institutions just as the left did in the past. Doing that and setting up parallel institutions aren't mutually exclusive. Men should join the military, law enforcement, go into law, run for elected office, government bureaucracy, even the 3 letter agencies, wherever their talents and interests lay.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr Mantis Toboggan, post: 1358703, member: 14493"] That's a worthy aim but it isn't really the same thing. If you're talking something approximating a parallel institution to the US military, you're talking the various forms of armed citizen groups. Those certainly exist, but they are comprised in large part either of military veterans or people who were trained by veterans. The training and potentially combat experience you get in the military (mainly talking Army/Marine Corps here) are difficult to impossible to replicate in the civilian world. Having allies on the inside of the power structure is invaluable. If we want to turn back the tide of globohomo instead of merely surviving long enough to pass the burden to the next generation it will be helpful to co-opt existing institutions just as the left did in the past. Doing that and setting up parallel institutions aren't mutually exclusive. Men should join the military, law enforcement, go into law, run for elected office, government bureaucracy, even the 3 letter agencies, wherever their talents and interests lay. [/QUOTE]

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