Israeli-style National Service must be introduced by the next Westminster Government as a means of combating crime in the community, according to political commentator, Dr John Coulter, in his Fearless Flying Column today.

British security forces, or Irish defence forces - that should be the choice which all citizens who live in Northern Ireland must decide if compulsory National Service is restored by a future Westminster Government.

Under my proposed scheme, all adults aged 16 plus who hold either British or Irish passports, but who live in Northern Ireland must serve at least two years in the armed forces; a scheme similar to the one which exists in Israel.

Granted, mention Israel and this can spark a debate in the opposite direction about the situation in the Middle East.

However, in a truly democratic society, the powers-that-be have a moral duty and obligation to protect the citizens of that state.

Given the security co-operation established by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in terms of the cross-border bodies and British-Irish bodies, Northern Irish citizens will have the choice of either serving their two years with the British security forces - Army, Navy, Air Force and PSNI, or the Republic’s defence forces - Irish army, navy, air force, and Garda.

Likewise, during the time a citizen is serving with the security forces, as part of their National Service, they will be trained in a vocational trade, such as electrician, joiner, brick worker. In short, they will leave with recognised vocational qualifications as well as military training and social respect. These will also, if required, include recognised qualifications in numeracy, literacy and social communication skills.

After completing their two years, candidates will be given the option of continuing to develop their careers in the armed forces. The compulsory National Service will be done by all citizens, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion and ability.

Even those with a clear physical or mental disability will have the opportunity to serve with the armed forces. The aim of such paid National Service is to develop the concept of patriotism in all citizens. It does not mean Northern Ireland will be flooded with either legal or illegal weapons as exists in parts of American society.

Such a cross-border initiative means that citizens who live in traditional republican areas will not be forced to serve in the British Army, for example, but can serve their two years with the Irish Defence Forces.

It also means that, potentially, every 16-year-old in Northern Ireland is guaranteed paid employment at that age, especially if the voting age is also lowered to 16. Young adults can opt out at 16, but must be enrolled in National Service by the age of 30.

The British and Irish Government must drastically reduce the amount of cash they waste on overseas aid and plough that finance into funding for cross-border National Service. Likewise, suitable candidates enrolled into a National Service scheme will also have the opportunity to represent their armed forces serving with NATO or the United Nations.

Opportunities must also be developed under a new British Isles/United States trade agreement that suitable candidates undertaking cross-border National Service may also complete part of that Service with the various branches of the US forces.

Similarly, as part of the cross-border arrangement, the British-Irish agreement can allow for hot pursuit of terrorist suspects on both sides of the Irish border across Ireland.

Practically, this means the PSNI and British Army can pursue dissident republican terrorists to Dublin if necessary and equally, the Garda and Irish Defence Forces could pursue loyalist dissidents into Unionist strongholds who attack the republic as a result of Brexit.

During the conflict, many republican terrorists were able to evade capture because they escaped to the safety of the Irish republic. It should be noted that the IRA’s 1956-62 border campaign became a military disaster because the British and Irish security forces co-operated - especially through the tactic of internment - to stamp out the cross-border threat from republicans.

Likewise, such locally trained militias as a result of National Service would have powers to combat anti-social behaviour and criminality in their communities, as well as prepare the island of Ireland for any potential threat from radical Islamic terrorists.

This will give more trained ‘bite’ to the PSNI-approved Neighbourhood Watch schemes, without those schemes gaining the reputation of becoming little more than armed vigilantes.

The cross-border National Service programme should be introduced as part of a comprehensive scheme of combating crime in the community. Primarily, the death penalty will be re-introduced for convicted murderers, especially child killers and drug barons.

The form of execution will be the electric chair as death by lethal injection gives the perception of the convicted murderer simply going for a wee doze. If the death penalty is to be a deterrent, then the means of execution must put the fear of God into anyone thinking of committing a crime which could carry the sentence of death.

On the policy of prison reform, the 50 per cent remission will be axed and life in prison will mean life. The perception has arisen that Irish prisons are more like holiday camps than a location where convicted criminals will be housed.

As part of their sentences, all criminals - no matter what the degree of the crime - will have a period of hard labour whereby they will be used to clear rubbish, sweep roads in the same manner as the American system of chain gangs was adopted.

Anyone convicted by the courts of drug dealing will have all their financial assets seized and the cash injected into the respective health services on both sides of the border, especially in the areas of cancer research, drug rehabilitation, cutting the waiting lists and developing education provision.

There will be much tougher sentences for sex offenders with anyone convicted by the courts of sexual abuse chemically castrated or neutered. The sentence for child rape will be the automatic death penalty using the electric chair.

These may seem harsh measure and no doubt the ‘fluffy bunny’ liberals will be screaming human rights to the heavens. But the reality is that society can become too politically correct and the rights of victims of crime quickly brushed under the legislative carpet.

The perception of the ‘ordinary decent criminal’ compared to the terrorist must be confined to the legal dustbin. There are only criminals.

Society has a moral imperative to look after its citizens in terms of health, education and even employment. But society also has a duty of care to its citizens - and this means protecting them on the street or in their own homes.

The criminal must understand that when they seek to commit a crime, they will face dire consequences if caught and convicted by a court. People can moan about the need to be a tolerant, secular liberal society - until it is their home which is burgled, their car which is stolen, their granny who is mugged.

Follow Dr John Coulter on Twitter @JohnAHCoulter

Society's Duty Of Care Through National Service

Israeli-style National Service must be introduced by the next Westminster Government as a means of combating crime in the community, according to political commentator, Dr John Coulter, in his Fearless Flying Column today.

British security forces, or Irish defence forces - that should be the choice which all citizens who live in Northern Ireland must decide if compulsory National Service is restored by a future Westminster Government.

Under my proposed scheme, all adults aged 16 plus who hold either British or Irish passports, but who live in Northern Ireland must serve at least two years in the armed forces; a scheme similar to the one which exists in Israel.

Granted, mention Israel and this can spark a debate in the opposite direction about the situation in the Middle East.

However, in a truly democratic society, the powers-that-be have a moral duty and obligation to protect the citizens of that state.

Given the security co-operation established by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in terms of the cross-border bodies and British-Irish bodies, Northern Irish citizens will have the choice of either serving their two years with the British security forces - Army, Navy, Air Force and PSNI, or the Republic’s defence forces - Irish army, navy, air force, and Garda.

Likewise, during the time a citizen is serving with the security forces, as part of their National Service, they will be trained in a vocational trade, such as electrician, joiner, brick worker. In short, they will leave with recognised vocational qualifications as well as military training and social respect. These will also, if required, include recognised qualifications in numeracy, literacy and social communication skills.

After completing their two years, candidates will be given the option of continuing to develop their careers in the armed forces. The compulsory National Service will be done by all citizens, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion and ability.

Even those with a clear physical or mental disability will have the opportunity to serve with the armed forces. The aim of such paid National Service is to develop the concept of patriotism in all citizens. It does not mean Northern Ireland will be flooded with either legal or illegal weapons as exists in parts of American society.

Such a cross-border initiative means that citizens who live in traditional republican areas will not be forced to serve in the British Army, for example, but can serve their two years with the Irish Defence Forces.

It also means that, potentially, every 16-year-old in Northern Ireland is guaranteed paid employment at that age, especially if the voting age is also lowered to 16. Young adults can opt out at 16, but must be enrolled in National Service by the age of 30.

The British and Irish Government must drastically reduce the amount of cash they waste on overseas aid and plough that finance into funding for cross-border National Service. Likewise, suitable candidates enrolled into a National Service scheme will also have the opportunity to represent their armed forces serving with NATO or the United Nations.

Opportunities must also be developed under a new British Isles/United States trade agreement that suitable candidates undertaking cross-border National Service may also complete part of that Service with the various branches of the US forces.

Similarly, as part of the cross-border arrangement, the British-Irish agreement can allow for hot pursuit of terrorist suspects on both sides of the Irish border across Ireland.

Practically, this means the PSNI and British Army can pursue dissident republican terrorists to Dublin if necessary and equally, the Garda and Irish Defence Forces could pursue loyalist dissidents into Unionist strongholds who attack the republic as a result of Brexit.

During the conflict, many republican terrorists were able to evade capture because they escaped to the safety of the Irish republic. It should be noted that the IRA’s 1956-62 border campaign became a military disaster because the British and Irish security forces co-operated - especially through the tactic of internment - to stamp out the cross-border threat from republicans.

Likewise, such locally trained militias as a result of National Service would have powers to combat anti-social behaviour and criminality in their communities, as well as prepare the island of Ireland for any potential threat from radical Islamic terrorists.

This will give more trained ‘bite’ to the PSNI-approved Neighbourhood Watch schemes, without those schemes gaining the reputation of becoming little more than armed vigilantes.

The cross-border National Service programme should be introduced as part of a comprehensive scheme of combating crime in the community. Primarily, the death penalty will be re-introduced for convicted murderers, especially child killers and drug barons.

The form of execution will be the electric chair as death by lethal injection gives the perception of the convicted murderer simply going for a wee doze. If the death penalty is to be a deterrent, then the means of execution must put the fear of God into anyone thinking of committing a crime which could carry the sentence of death.

On the policy of prison reform, the 50 per cent remission will be axed and life in prison will mean life. The perception has arisen that Irish prisons are more like holiday camps than a location where convicted criminals will be housed.

As part of their sentences, all criminals - no matter what the degree of the crime - will have a period of hard labour whereby they will be used to clear rubbish, sweep roads in the same manner as the American system of chain gangs was adopted.

Anyone convicted by the courts of drug dealing will have all their financial assets seized and the cash injected into the respective health services on both sides of the border, especially in the areas of cancer research, drug rehabilitation, cutting the waiting lists and developing education provision.

There will be much tougher sentences for sex offenders with anyone convicted by the courts of sexual abuse chemically castrated or neutered. The sentence for child rape will be the automatic death penalty using the electric chair.

These may seem harsh measure and no doubt the ‘fluffy bunny’ liberals will be screaming human rights to the heavens. But the reality is that society can become too politically correct and the rights of victims of crime quickly brushed under the legislative carpet.

The perception of the ‘ordinary decent criminal’ compared to the terrorist must be confined to the legal dustbin. There are only criminals.

Society has a moral imperative to look after its citizens in terms of health, education and even employment. But society also has a duty of care to its citizens - and this means protecting them on the street or in their own homes.

The criminal must understand that when they seek to commit a crime, they will face dire consequences if caught and convicted by a court. People can moan about the need to be a tolerant, secular liberal society - until it is their home which is burgled, their car which is stolen, their granny who is mugged.

Follow Dr John Coulter on Twitter @JohnAHCoulter

8 comments:

  1. Skipping the ludicous need for such a securetised force of conscripts; arguing for the conscripting of children makes me thankful that Coulter does not have the larynx and lungs of other hate preachers, such as paisley -Coulter's call to arms should be viewed against other examples where child soldiers formed regeiments for 'God's Army' to commit all sort of horrors in Burma and Aftrica etc. on command of a religious fanatical leaders.

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    1. Christy,

      if sixteen qualifies for child soldiering, then I'd hazard a guess that more than a couple of the contributors here on the 'Quill' qualified too way back in the day!

      (That aside, don't you realise John is bonkers. Let him off and pass no heed to him).

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  2. This guy sounds like he is completely mad. Importing chain gangs and the death penalty from the US. Training 16 year olds to use lethal weapons. What drugs is he on or perhaps it's what drugs should he be on? Complete lunacy.

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  3. Another brain turd from "Doctor" Coulter. Absolute bum pish, arcing arse gravy spewing forth with little thought behind it. Why in the absolute fuck should children be press ganged into service when all that means is being prepped and ready to ship out to fight a stupid conflict in some far flung mess at the whim of utter fuckwits who view sticking their cock in dead pigs heads as a "Right of Passage"?

    Free speech you lend this "Doctor" Anthony, but by fuck does it grate.

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    1. Free speech is meant to have that grating dimension to it Steve, otherwise its value is limited. Free speech for me is about freedom of opinion and inquiry which require the freedom of speech that allows them to be expressed. I am not enamoured to the notion of speech as a right to bully for example. It is about exploring ideas not imposing them.

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  4. And what fucking point is gaining a trade when there's no jobs due to austerity via Conservatism, you complete bell end?

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    1. True and I wasn't advocating anything else. Just something about him really winds me up.

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  5. Henry Joy

    I am aware that in the early 70's a number of teenagers were convicted of things up to and including murder. I think the community outrage was against the IRA using 'kids' which brought an end to any practice. Meanwhile teenage British soldiers continued to patrol our streets, that is not a jibe at the Brits but back then most teenagers finished school at 16 and went into the army or whereever they could go.

    I do not recall when universally it was established that anyone under 18 was a child but it was sometime within the past 20 years.

    Coulter is calling for the mandatory conscription of kids -kids, militia and a religious fanatic is a baaad mix.

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