[Lnc-business] Support for non-government volunteer military efforts

[Starchild]

	In seeking to reduce the role of government in using resources stolen from the people to provide "protection", in the United States and in other countries, the Libertarian Party does not advocate that people be left defenseless, but instead supports their right to defend themselves and enlist the voluntary aid of others in doing so.

	In the U.S., this primarily means supporting the Second Amendment and the legal right to keep and bear arms. But what about in places where those in power have even less respect for the law or human rights, the time for peaceful opposition has passed, and their victims need more help in throwing off oppression?

	Although it is little discussed in this country, some people do join non-State groups to fight directly for liberation. One of them is Heza Shankal, a brave woman who has taken up arms against Daesh (sometimes called ISIS):

> "A Yazidi sex slave kidnapped by [Daesh] has joined a militia so she can 'take revenge' on the fanatics who tortured her.
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> Heza Shankal has taken up arms with an all-female resistance group and travelled to Raqqa in Syria to fight the terror group.
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> She and her two sisters were among the thousands kidnapped when ISIS swept through Sinjar in northern Iraq area in 2014, slaughtering adult men, forcing boys to train as child soldiers and taking women and girls as sex slaves.
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> ISIS regards Yazidis, who are neither Arab nor Muslim, as being devil-worshippers and have committed a series of terrible atrocities against the minority..."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4713844/Yazidi-sex-slave-kidnapped-ISIS-vows-revenge.html

	Another was an American journalist by the name of Matthew van Dyke, who went to Libya and joined the armed struggle to overthrow the Gaddafi regime in Libya and is now also fighting against Daesh. He has founded a non-profit security contracting firm called Sons of Liberty International (https://www.sonsoflibertyinternational.com/) to provide "free security consulting and training services to vulnerable populations to enable them to defend themselves against terrorist and insurgent groups".

	Just as Libertarians seek to embrace and promote alternatives to government welfare, so we should also seek to embrace and promote alternatives to government warfare.
	
	I would like to see us pass a resolution commending SOLI's mission, and the efforts of the heroic individuals who put their lives on the line to fight for freedom in volunteer, non-State militias, as a positive alternative to government military interventions. 

	Who's with me? If you support the idea, speak up, and let's craft some language.

Love & Liberty,

                                     ((( starchild )))
At-Large Representative, Libertarian National Committee
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P.S. – I would much rather see independent, voluntary military efforts flourish, than to see a situation persist in which even some libertarians feel obliged to call for national compulsory military service, wouldn't you?
 
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/09/09/pascal-emmanuel-gobry/libertarian-case-national-military-service