John Hagelin on Homeland Security

	John Hagelin on Homeland Security 2000 Natural Law Party Nominee for President

Women in military; with honor, as always

Q: Should women be banned from the military?

BROWNE: I don’t think women should be banned from the military, but I think it is a mistake to mix them in combat situations because romance inevitable plays a part in it and it’s going to affect people emotionally. But that’s not really an important point. What we need to do is to get our troops out of Yemen and 100 countries around the world. We need to quit meddling in all other countries’ affairs. If we just worry about defending the United States, we’re not going to worry too much about the composition of our personnel.

Q: Would you have women in combat?

HAGELIN: Women should be able to serve their country with honor, of course, as they always have.

Source: Third Party Debate on Meet the Press , Oct 22, 2000

Shrink defense by $100B while strengthening military

Q: How big would your defense budget be?

HAGELIN: We can cut the size and cost of our military by about $100 billion a year and strengthen the military at the same time. Get rid of pork barrel spending for very expensive weapons systems. More importantly, for the security of our country, stop creating enemies throughout the world through a highly meddlesome foreign policy and shift our foreign aid away from military aid towards the export of technical assistance and entrepreneurism.

Source: Third Party Debate on Meet the Press , Oct 22, 2000

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is a recipe for discrimination

Q: Do you support the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military?

A: “Don’t ask, don’t tell’ is a recipe for discrimination. Gays should be allowed to defend our country, as they indeed always have, without censure of silence. Naturally, sexual promiscuity heterosexual or homosexual - has no place in the military.”

Source: Associated Press , Sep 6, 2000

Decrease military aid; shift to life-supporting policy

Two thirds of US foreign aid is military aid. I would create an immediate shift away from the export of weapons-the US is one of the largest arms dealers in the world-toward a more life-supporting policy based on the export of US know-how. American expertise and technical assistance in such critical areas as business, entrepreneurship, education, sustainable agriculture, and environmental technologies, supplemented where necessary with economic support, should replace military aid as our principal instrument of US foreign policy. Such a foreign policy will allow many developing countries to become financially self-sufficient, help to eliminate hunger and poverty, and contribute to a flourishing global trade in a more prosperous and harmonious family of nations. Source: www.Hagelin.org, ‘What Hagelin will do’ , Apr 1, 2000

Maintain nuclear non-proliferation and maintain ABM Treaty

Supports the cooperative threat reduction programs with Russia to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons to unfriendly nations
Does not support modifying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in order to deploy the National Missile Defense System.

Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test , Jan 13, 2000

Present military spending is politically motivated

I’m definitely for spending on military, but I think a lot of our military spending is actually politically motivated. There are expensive weapon systems that the Pentagon doesn’t even want, but they bring jobs to a particular Congressman’s area, and that Congressman on that particular expenditure committee gets good money from those special interest groups. Source: Jim Bohannon Show, Westwood One radio , Nov 16, 1999

High-tech weaponry is unstoppable

There is no viable defense against today’s high-tech weaponry. Once a single MIRVed ICBM is launched, there is no missile system in place that can prevent the wide-scale destruction of cities. Even after substantial reductions in global arsenals, thousands of nuclear weapons are known to be missing from the former Soviet arsenal, and recent nuclear tests in China have stirred fears in the international community of runaway nuclear proliferation. Source: “A Reason to Vote” , Dec 6, 1995

Peace treaties don’t last

Unfortunately history shows that neither treaties nor threat of arms can ensure lasting peace and security. When stress builds up in collective consciousness, inevitably it erupts as violence, conflict, and war among nations. Then it doesn’t matter what treaty has been signed. Over the past three thousand years there have been more than five thousand peace treaties, each of which has lasted an average of nine years. Source: “A Reason to Vote” , Dec 6, 1995

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