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Senate Passes National Service Bill
Fox News
The Examiner
Friday, March 27, 2009
Editor’s note: In a statement after passage in the Senate, Obama said “our work is not finished when I sign this bill into law — it has just begun.” It will now only be a matter of time before Obama’s “civilian national security force” powerful as the U.S. military takes to the streets.
See Obama Calls For National Civilian Stasi and Obama’s “Civilian National Security Force.”
The Senate on Thursday approved a major national service bill that triples the AmeriCorps program, despite concerns from some conservatives that it could allow politically charged groups to benefit from extra funding.
The Senate voted 78-20 to increase AmeriCorps to 250,000 from its current 75,000 positions. The legislation is expected to cost $6 billion over five years.
The House could take up the bill as early as Monday, sending it then to President Obama for his signature.
The package, called the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, or GIVE Act, encourages a broad range of Americans to give back to their communities. It would create five groups to help poor people, improve education, encourage energy efficiency, strengthen access to health care and assist veterans.
Expanded Americorps has an authoritarian feel
The Examiner
March 26, 2009
With almost no public attention, both chambers of Congress in the past week advanced an alarming expansion of the Americorps national service plan, with the number of federally funded community service job increasing from 75,000 to 250,000 at a cost of $5.7 billion. Lurking behind the feel-good rhetoric spouted by the measure’s advocates is a bill that on closer inspection reveals multiple provisions that together create a strong odor of creepy authoritarianism. The House passed the measure overwhelmingly, while only 14 senators had the sense and courage to vote against it on a key procedural motion. Every legislator who either voted for this bill or didn’t vote at all has some serious explaining to do.
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Last summer, then-candidate Barack Obama threw civil liberties to the wind when he proposed “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the regular military. The expanded Americorps is not quite so disturbing, but a number of provisions in the bill raise serious concerns.
To begin with, the legislation threatens the voluntary nature of Americorps by calling for consideration of “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people.” It anticipates the possibility of requiring “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service – including elementary school students. The bill also summons up unsettling memories of World War II-era paramilitary groups by saying the new program should “combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service,” while establishing “campuses” that serve as “operational headquarters,” complete with “superintendents” and “uniforms” for all participants. It allows for the elimination of all age restrictions in order to involve Americans at all stages of life. And it calls for creation of “a permanent cadre” in a “National Community Civilian Corps.”
But that’s not all. The bill also calls for “youth engagement zones” in which “service learning” is “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.” This updated form of voluntary community service is also to be “integrated into the science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula” at all levels of schooling. Sounds like a government curriculum for government approved “service learning,” which is nothing less than indoctrination. Now, ask yourself if congressmen who voted for this monstrosity had a clue what they were voting for. If not, they’re guilty of dereliction of duty. If yes, the implications are truly frightening.
UPDATE:
Between being first officially “reported” to the House and being voted on by the full House, bill managers stripped one whole section of the measure that created a Congressional Commission on Civil Service, thus removing the section that contained the language cited above concerning “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” and a possible requirement for “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service. The section could be restored during the Senate-House conference committee meeting. A new, separate bill containing that language has since been introduced in the House.
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March 27th, 2009 at 6:43 am
can anyone say Sieg Heil?
MARK OF THE BEAST Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 6:56 am
COMRAD OBAMA TELEPROMTER HAS SPOKEN. YOU MUST OBEY. FORGET THE CONSTITUTION IT IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER. COMRAD OBAMA IS NOW YOUR LEADER.
OBEY COMRAD OBAMA. YOU WILL OBEY AND NEVER DISPUTE THE GREAT COMRAD OBAMA. YOU WILL CHANGE. KEEP YOU EYE ON THE SWINGING SHINY PENDULUM. YOU ARE GETTING SLEEPY. VERY DROWSY. WHEN YOU WAKE UP YOU WILL WORSHIP THE NEW WORLD MESSIAH. COMRAD OBAMA RULES THE WORLD. SURRENDER YOUR CHILDREN TO THE YOUTH CAMPS. PRAISE COMRAD OBAMA. YOU WILL OBEY.
LUCY LIB Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 7:04 am
What is a comrad mark? Is it like a skipper you know like on Gilligan’s Island?
Help me chris.
Fuzzy in CA
fred nerk Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 7:24 am
resistance is not futile obama of borg can be beaten
MARK OF THE BEAST Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 7:29 am
PLEASE USE PROPER INTERNET YOUTH CORE PROTOCOL. THAT IS COMRAD OBAMA AND YOU MUST USE ALL CAPS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.
INTERNET YOUTH CORPS FOR THE OWO (OLD WORLD ORDER)
March 27th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Best wishes.
March 27th, 2009 at 6:50 am
free uniforms. WOW! thats great. I love free stuff. a youth party camp is a wonderful idea. Go pres Go! you are a kool pres. I will get to see the world and learn to dance march.
change change change!!! Yes we can. CA and Arne loves you. Keep up the great work pres.
we all support you in CA, CA is the future of america you know like really rad dude.
CA GIRL
Militant Libertarian Reply:
March 28th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
The uniforms are only going to be worn if they include those cool French berets they gave the military guys.
fred nerk Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 7:27 am
do you get paid by obama of borg for your voluntary slavery
March 27th, 2009 at 7:00 am
I am very pleased to see that America is correcting the error of their ways by educating their children in youth camps as we do in the great and powerful country of China. We are the model country on which the New America will develop. Comrad Obama is following the wise ways of Mao Sa Tung.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:03 am
COMRAD OBAMA?
This could be bad for me. I am too old and tired for anymore of those camps. May God help us.
March 27th, 2009 at 7:15 am
This is very good news. I see the youth of America will learn the ways of the Kuran. This is a great forward step for America. Finally Americans can see the wisdom of Allah. I told my camel this morning about these new education facilities in American and the poor animal shat himself will laughter.
Dilbert McGunnut Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 8:15 am
LOL! good one!
fatinma pants Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 7:30 am
yes please
March 27th, 2009 at 7:33 am
What about physically handicapped or mentally retarded individuals?
Do they get a free pass or will they be our supervisors?
LUCY LIB Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 9:49 am
tweaky you are very incentive. many of these people elected our great president obama.
their vote counts to like you know they are people like everyone else and we are all equal. like in CA we never put a label on any kind of person. except that pesky boat guy michael savage. So wake up and take our lead. Like so many of the other states are jealous because we have a real governor for the state. how many others can say like, hey dude my governor is a movie star.
CA GIRL
CHRIS LIB Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Hello Lucy,
I have been trying to call you about the dinner date. Problem is like you know i lost your phone number and my girl is back from college spring break. like big time sorry. i know it is like a major hassel. isn’t pph offering free assiatance? call you soon.
chris in marin county
March 27th, 2009 at 8:27 am
Hmmm…Are Native Americans expected to do this?? We’ve already gone through the years of oppression with Boarding Schools, churches, treaties, and forced government policies. Don’t think we or any of us should have to go through this again! Although it is an interesting thought if any of this applies to Indian Country, considering the fact that we have our own governments and constitutions…hmmm……
MARK OF THE BEAST Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 9:51 am
WHATS THE PROBLEM CHIEF? DONT YOU TRUST COMRAD OBAMA?
March 27th, 2009 at 9:46 am
Did any of you even read what the National Service Bill is? It doesn’t sound like it.
If you did read it, I don’t know where you got these outlandish ideas.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Wow. Americorps is gonna be tripled. That’s a good thing. And they will get more $$.
Funny how I don’t see anything about this being “mandatory”.
I guess it was just another paranoid conspiracy theory.
March 27th, 2009 at 10:50 am
TEACH ME HOW YOU THINK. SO I CAN WIN.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:54 am
People please start taking action. call your politicians, wite a letter…send an email….do something! Start a website. Thats what I did and its one of the fastest growing sites on the web reaching 1500 people daily! tons of new stuff there at http://www.thegrandawakening.com
March 27th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Wow & Michael
Maybe you should read H.R. 1444
Pay particular attention to section 4
wow Reply:
March 27th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Are you kidding me? You guys are seriously drinking your own kool-aid. Have fun.
Keep yourself in fear of a democrat run government by reading things like ‘the cup has a hole in it’ with every bill that passes.
Then when your party blatantly pulls the wool over the America peoples eyes, just keep acting like the little lemmings you are.
Terror Alert Elevated!
Burn the Witch Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Well, someone apparently didn’t (or won’t) the resolution. What part of “mandatory” are you not getting?
Not bad with the good ol’ edgy, insulting and utterly vacuous reply though.
Not a Kool-Aid Drinker Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Unless I’m mistaken, HR 1388 passed the House with similiar wording to that found in Section 4 of HR 1444. That part was taken out before it passed the Senate and I think that’s about the time it appeared in HR 1444. If HR 1444 passes as written, then we may indeed see “mandatory volunteer” service (which I believe is unconstitutional). I don’t know how all of this makes me a lemming, but hey I’m fine with it. At least I’m not a Kool-Aid drinking lemming. LOL LOL
March 27th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Over my dead body will my child be a part of this B.S.! Merry Christmas ! Enjoy your Barak Obama!
MARK OF THE BEAST Reply:
March 28th, 2009 at 7:32 am
PLEASE BILL,
THAT IS COMRAD OBAMA. IT IS A NEW INTERNET RULE TO BE INDOCTRINATED IN MY INTERNET YOUTH CORE. OUR ORGANIZATION IS TEACHING A DIFFIERENT CURRICULUM.
WE CHOSE REALITY RATHER THAN CHANGE. THE NEW REVISION OF INTERNET JORNALISM MANDATES YOU MUST TYPE IN ALL CAPITALS AND OBAMA IS OFFICIALLY REFERED TO ONLY AS COMRAD OBAMA. SOON EVERYONE WILL CATCH ON.
OWO (OLD WORLD ORDER)
Obama of Borg Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 7:41 am
resistance is whatever you make of it
March 27th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
actualy my xbox controller works from 50 feet away.. so im all for it.. as long as they got something for me too do within that range… im good.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Huh. I’m happy that I live in US BUT I’m not the citizen, they can’t force me to do this shit. If they do tell me that it doesn’t matter if I’m not the citizen, I still have to do it then I rather go back to the Europe and serve my real homeland than Obama and Co.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
No one I know will do this crap. I won’t and none of my family will. I’ve never been violent in my life, but all that has been going on lately in the last years has made me prepare to be so and I am getting itchy. It isn’t the quantity of life, it is the quality. If I have no freedoms and have to do things like a freakin’ slave for a pompous chimp who isn’t even a citizen of this country, then life isn’t worth living. Niether is anyone elses who decides to come drag me off somewhere. I think they might find it hard to force people into stuff like this and a revoltion on all scales will happen.
People like me may get killed, but so will many of them. For every one of us, at least 6 of them would probably go. I think they WANT a revolt so they can get this over ASAP and when the dust settles, the rest will now know what kind of nation they will be living in and they will obey as the world gov takes hold because they were the kind who were too wimpy to stand up and fight in the first place. They will see eventually just how bad their new situation is and long for the days when people like us were around. They will wish they HAD stood up with us.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:31 am
For some reason, my former comments were removed. I guess it’s OK to say you’ll reply to the government summoners with “hot lead,” but not OK to discuss how this can be undermined from within the system? Hmmm…
April 8th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
After reading through the article, I feel that I really need more info. Can you suggest some more resources please?