03-19--2009
House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill
The House passed a bill yesterday which includes disturbing language
indicating young people will be forced to undertake mandatory national
service programs as fears about President Barack Obama's promised "civilian
national security force" intensify.
The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act
, known as the
GIVE Act, was passed yesterday by a 321-105 margin and now goes to the
Senate.
Under section 6104 of the bill, entitled "Duties," in subsection B6, the
legislation states that a commission will be set up to investigate, "Whether
a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able
young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be
implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the
Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from
diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds."
Section 120 of the bill also discusses the "Youth Engagement Zone Program"
and states that "service learning" will be "a mandatory part of the
curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational
agency."
"The legislation, slated to cost $6 billion over five years, would create
175,000 "new service opportunities" under AmeriCorps, bringing the number of
participants in the national volunteer program to 250,000. It would also
create additional "corps" to expand the reach of volunteerism into new
sectors, including a Clean Energy Corps, Education Corps, Healthy Futures
Corps and Veterans Service Corps, and it expands the National Civilian
Community Corps to focus on additional areas like disaster relief and energy
conservation," reports Fox News
LINK.
The Senate is also considering a similar piece of legislation known as the
"Serve America Act," which also includes language about "Youth Engagement Zones".
Fears about Obama's plans to create involuntary servitude were first stoked
in July 2008, when Obama told a rally in Colorado Springs, "We cannot
continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security
objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force
that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded."
Despite denials that Obama plans to institute a mandatory program of
national service, his original change.gov website stated
that Americans would be "required" to complete "50 hours of
community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of
community service in college every year". The text was only later changed to
state that Americans would be "encouraged" to undertake such programs.
In addition, Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, publicly stated his
intention to help create
"universal civil defense training" in 2006.
"The bill's opponents - and there are only a few in Congress - say it could
cram ideology down the throats of young "volunteers," many of whom could be
forced into service since the bill creates a "Congressional Commission on
Civic Service," reports Fox.
"We contribute our time and money under no government coercion on a scale
the rest of the world doesn't emulate and probably can't imagine," said Luke
Sheahan, contributing editor for the Family Security Foundation. "The idea
that government should order its people to perform acts of charity is
contrary to the idea of charity and it removes the responsibility for
charity from the people to the government, destroying private initiative."
Lee Cary of the conservative American Thinker warns that Obama's agenda is
to, "tap into the already active volunteerism of millions of Americans and
recruit them to become cogs in a gigantic government machine grinding out
his social re-engineering agenda."
CFR luminary Gary Hart hit back at critics, claiming in a Huffington Post
piece that, "Resistance to expanded public service programs can be expected
from the ideologically sclerotic, those who occupy the negative ground
between government as the problem and government as our enemy."
The frightening prospect of Obama's mandatory government servitude is
covered in-depth in Alex Jones' new documentary blockbuster, The Obama
Deception. Subscribe to prison
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