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Date: March 19, 2009 11:13:40 PM PDT
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Subject: House Passes Obama's GIVE Act -- MANDATORY "National Service"
House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill
Legislation intensifies fears about Obama’s civilian national security
force
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet, March 19, 2009
http://www.prisonplanet.com/house-passes-mandatory-national-service-bill.html
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.
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 planet.tv now to watch the film in high-
quality, watch it for free here or buy the DVD, make copies and spread
the word.
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