Michael Savage: Draft tech workers to help defeat ISIS

When Donald Trump was asked at the CNN Republican primary debate to clarify his call to close down parts of the Internet to thwart ISIS, the front-running candidate emphasized collaborating with the country's best tech entrepreneurs and talent.

Talk-radio host Michael Savage told his listeners Wednesday he agrees with Trump, but he would take it a step further, advocating a military draft focused on information-technology workers.

"I wouldn't get our brilliant people (together) and ask them to do it," he said. "I would require them to do it."

Savage called for a "Selective Selective Service" that "targets IT workers who can go to work for the government as hackers to take down ISIS websites, al-Qaida websites."

"And then we need programmers to program positive information for the youth of America, to make them love the country again and want to help the country again," he said.

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"And then you're going to be involved in a cyber war that you might win."

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During the debate Tuesday night in Las Vegas, Trump recommended bringing together "brilliant people from Silicon Valley and other places and figure out a way that ISIS can not do what they're doing."

"I don't want them using our Internet," Trump said.

Savage noted that the "buccaneers of the Internet fortunes – Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Larry Ellison of Oracle – they're brilliant people, very successful."

They've made billions off of the Internet, which was launched by the government and developed with federal funding, Savage pointed out.

But unlike the Obama administration, he doesn't want to use that as justification to take more of their money.

Instead, the tech world can contribute directly to the war on terror.

"There's a lot of things they could be doing that they're not doing in this war on terror," Savage said.

He said an incident last week made him wonder which side Facebook's Zuckerberg is on in the "war against Islamofascism."

As WND reported, Facebook censored a post on Savage's page on the social media website that featured photographs of Muslim protesters holding signs threatening beheading and death for "those who insult Islam."

Facebook has not explained why it deleted the post, but it provided a link to its "Community Standards" page, which lists "hate speech" as one of its prohibitions, along with "violence and graphic content," and nudity.

Messages in placards held up by the London demonstrators included "Behead those who insult Islam," "Freedom go to hell," "Europe. Take some lessons from 9/11" and "Be prepared for the real Holocaust."

On his show Wednesday, Savage said Facebook "censored me, why don't they censor the Islamofascists?"

"Which side is Zuckerberg on?"

Savage reiterated the government "needs to have a special draft – not a generalized draft, because we don't need everyone."

"I think they need to draft computer experts into the military, tomorrow."

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