House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill

[Kat Kanning]

House Passes Mandatory National Service Bill

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 19, 2009

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".

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

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."

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[John Edward Mercier]

Let him ride around South Central LA... they'll show him what a youth neighborhood civil defense unit looks like.

[Free libertarian]

  Change we can believe in ?  It will be interesting to see what comes next.  Frightening how many people were fooled by this charlatan.       

[Pat K]

House passes new slavery bill.

Is how it should read.

[Porcupine_in_MA]

House passes new slavery bill.

Is how it should read.

+1

[zackbass]

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."

Fortunately, the Federal Government has never (yet) made any Education Suggestion mandatory.  Even the "No Child Left Behind" nonsense is purely Voluntary, up to your Local and State Governments to decide whether to oppress you or not.  And this is still at that stage.  There is nothing Mandatory.  They do not and cannot (yet) tell your School System what is to be part of the curriculum.
I will admit that there are those who do want to get the Feds into Forcing us to accept their Speed Limits, and their Education Rules, and their Handgun Waiting Periods, and their National Carry Permits, but so far all of these things are purely Local Tyranny, despite plenty of anti-Fed libertarian rhetoric.  Heck, the Feds don't even incarcerate us for Polygamy anymore, it's always our own Local Government.

[Free libertarian]

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."

Fortunately, the Federal Government has never (yet) made any Education Suggestion mandatory.  Even the "No Child Left Behind" nonsense is purely Voluntary, up to your Local and State Governments to decide whether to oppress you or not.  And this is still at that stage.  There is nothing Mandatory.  They do not and cannot (yet) tell your School System what is to be part of the curriculum.
I will admit that there are those who do want to get the Feds into Forcing us to accept their Speed Limits, and their Education Rules, and their Handgun Waiting Periods, and their National Carry Permits, but so far all of these things are purely Local Tyranny, despite plenty of anti-Fed libertarian rhetoric.  Heck, the Feds don't even incarcerate us for Polygamy anymore, it's always our own Local Government.

That may be true but they always dangle bribe money for the state. How can any State bureaucrat pass up "free money".
Witness it today during the seatbelt hearing in Concord, they'll be drooling over the $3.7 million of "free money" at the Ways and Means committee hearing.  Selling our freedom for money...it's what they do. The Feds know that whores always have a price and when you print the money...sigh. 

[slave_3646]

It's not slavery kids, it's volunteerism! Yay!

[Sam A. Robrin]

It's not slavery kids, it's volunteerism! Yay!

Demonstrating that politicians love voluntarism--just so long as it's mandatory . . .

[Raineyrocks]

Let him ride around South Central LA... they'll show him what a youth neighborhood civil defense unit looks like.

Good point! 

[Raineyrocks]

  Change we can believe in ?  It will be interesting to see what comes next.  Frightening how many people were fooled by this charlatan.       

Unfortunately people still are, not just were, fooled by this load of nonsense!   I know a few people in my family, (not immediate), that still love this guy and think he's going to do great things. 

[Raineyrocks]

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."

Fortunately, the Federal Government has never (yet) made any Education Suggestion mandatory.  Even the "No Child Left Behind" nonsense is purely Voluntary, up to your Local and State Governments to decide whether to oppress you or not.  And this is still at that stage.  There is nothing Mandatory.  They do not and cannot (yet) tell your School System what is to be part of the curriculum.
I will admit that there are those who do want to get the Feds into Forcing us to accept their Speed Limits, and their Education Rules, and their Handgun Waiting Periods, and their National Carry Permits, but so far all of these things are purely Local Tyranny, despite plenty of anti-Fed libertarian rhetoric.  Heck, the Feds don't even incarcerate us for Polygamy anymore, it's always our own Local Government.

That may be true but they always dangle bribe money for the state. How can any State bureaucrat pass up "free money".
Witness it today during the seatbelt hearing in Concord, they'll be drooling over the $3.7 million of "free money" at the Ways and Means committee hearing.  Selling our freedom for money...it's what they do. The Feds know that whores always have a price and when you print the money...sigh. 

[grasshopper]

Let me see, wanna bet the Boyscouts are out of this deal?

[Ogre]

Good point, grasshopper.

And you can't call it slavery because they're going to PAY you when you accept your forced volunteerism. And you will get a nice brown shirt to wear for free. It will be even more interesting when they try and force this on homeschoolers, too.