作者：姜俊良
在中国社会的现实里，有一个极其刺眼的对比：当你去求职、去工厂打工，甚至去注册外卖骑手时，社会告诉你：你已经35岁了，你太老了，我们不需要你。可是，当刚刚通过的《国防动员法》摆在我们面前时，国家却告诉你：哪怕你已经60岁了，只要我们要打仗，你依然很年轻，你必须服从强制动员。
找工作嫌你35岁太老，当炮灰却觉得你60岁刚好。这就是这部法律最让人毛骨悚然的荒谬之处。
让我们看看一个五六十岁的普通中国人，正在经历怎样的一生：他们可能正在为延迟退休而焦虑，可能正在为了微薄的、甚至随时面临缺口的养老金发愁；他们生了病不敢去医院，一辈子的积蓄可能被一场大病或一套烂尾楼彻底掏空。在他们最需要国家福利兜底、最需要医疗和养老保障的时候，权力告诉他们：“国家不养懒汉，你要学会自己克服困难。”
然而，习近平想要通过一场战争来成就自己的“历史功绩”时，这个平时被视为社会负担的60岁老人，突然就变成了国家法律白纸黑字锁定的“宝贵战争资源”。
中共辩解说，法律里写的只是“国防勤务”，不是让你直接拿枪上阵。但现代战争的常识是什么？后勤保障线、物资运输线，往往是敌方火力打击的最优先目标。让一群白发苍苍的父亲、让55岁临近退休的母亲，随部队行动，去炮火连天中运送战略物资，这不叫国防，这叫把手无寸铁的平民当作消耗品。
习近平花着人民缴纳的巨额税款，享受着没有监督的特权，最后却要拿人民的生命来为他们可能发动的战争买单。天下没有这样的道理。
我们今天站出来反对这部法律，不是在发泄情绪，而是在捍卫一个最底线的社会常识：普通人的一生，是用来陪伴家人、感受生活的，不是用来填补习近平这个独裁者野心沟壑的沙袋。一个真正强大的国家，是让人民免于恐惧，而不是用一纸法律，把十四亿人全部绑上随时可能引爆的战车。我们拒绝强制动员，因为我们的身体只属于我们自己，绝不是习近平的战争机器。
编辑：胡丽莉 校对：熊辩 翻译：戈冰
60-Year-Old Mandatory Mobilization: Why Should 1.4 Billion People Foot the Bill for a Dictator’s War Machine?
Author: Jiang Junliang
Abstract: The National Defense Mobilization Law expands mobilization, subjecting ordinary citizens to the scope of war mobilization while they lack support in areas such as employment and eldercare security. Calls for opposing mandatory mobilization and safeguarding individual rights.
In the reality of Chinese society, there exists an exceptionally glaring contrast: when you seek employment, go to work in a factory, or even register as a food delivery rider, society tells you: you are already 35 years old, you are too old, and we do not need you. However, when the newly passed National Defense Mobilization Law is set before us, the state tells you: even if you are already 60 years old, as long as we are going to war, you are still very young, and you must comply with mandatory mobilization.
Finding a job deems you too old at 35, yet using you as cannon fodder considers you just right at 60. This is the most chilling absurdity of this law.
Let us look at what kind of life an ordinary Chinese person in their fifties or sixties is currently experiencing: they may be anxious about the delayed retirement policy, and they may be worrying about meager pensions that even face potential deficits at any moment; they dare not go to the hospital when sick, and their life savings might be completely drained by a major illness or an unfinished property project. At the very moment when they are in direst need of state welfare as a safety net, and in direst need of medical and eldercare security, power tells them: “The state does not support lazy people; you must learn to overcome difficulties on your own.”
Yet, when Xi Jinping wants to achieve his own “historical merit” through a war, this 60-year-old elderly person, usually regarded as a societal burden, suddenly becomes a “precious war resource” locked down in black and white by state law.
The CCP defends itself by stating that what is written in the law is merely “national defense service,” not sending you directly to the front line with a gun. But what is common sense in modern warfare? Logistics supply lines and material transport lines are often the highest priority targets for enemy firepower strikes. Forcing a group of grey-haired fathers and 55-year-old mothers nearing retirement to move with the military and transport strategic supplies amidst intense shelling—this is not called national defense; this is called treating unarmed civilians as expendables.
Xi Jinping squanders the enormous taxes paid by the people and enjoys unsupervised privileges, only to ultimately demand that the people pay with their lives for the wars they might unleash. There is no such logic under heaven.
Our standing up today to oppose this law is not venting emotions, but defending the most fundamental bottom-line common sense: the life of an ordinary person is meant to accompany family and experience living, not to serve as sandbags filling the trench of the dictator Xi Jinping’s ambition. A truly strong nation enables its people to be free from fear, rather than using a single piece of legislation to bind all 1.4 billion people onto a war machine that could detonate at any moment. We reject mandatory mobilization, because our bodies belong only to ourselves, and are by no means Xi Jinping’s war machine.
Editor: Hu Lili Proofreader: Xiong Bian Translator: Ge Bing
