Photo Credits: Left photo taken from Barak’s Myspace; Right from Backspace.com
“We cannot continue to rely on the military to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded…”
-Barak Hussein Obama, July 2nd, 2008
“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 people together from diverse ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”
-Miscellaneous section, #6104, of the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act
It should be called the TAKE Act. Totalitarian Action and King-Obama’s Exploitation Act. It does not call for mandatory service in the Civilian Corps or other volunteer work as of today, but there’s no denying that it opens the door to such a thing. As this video points out, the eventual use of a law (I can’t reasonably see how it will fail in the Senate and Obama sure as hell isn’t going to veto it) doesn’t have to be the same as the intended purpose.
First, have a look at the freedoms participants must forfeit: the right of “organizing or engaging in in protests, boycotts, petitions, or strikes,” “attempting to influence legislation,” or “engaging in religious instruction” (Sec. 125). Seriously, am I reading this wrong? They want to give incentives to people to give up their freedoms, essentially. How many Constitutional Amendments have we laughed at yet? Now let’s take a moment to think of why this would be necessary. After all, a participant is only a volunteer, teaching children to read, cleaning up the roads, right? Not necessarily.
Then comes the lovely header “National Civilian Community Corps.” Under the header “Purpose” (Sec. 151) it explains that it is to “combine the best practices of civilian services with the best aspects of military service, including leadership and team building, to meet national and community needs.” Why would it be necessary to give civilians military training in order to accomplish peaceful and civil tasks, such as “energy conservation”? That is one of their tasks, along with natural disaster management. Does the military need to be freed up from hurricane management to go fight more wars like in, say, Pakistan? Or is it more of a brainwashing kind of thing, installing a sense of nationalism. Suddenly, you’re special, an Obamanite, you patrol those streets with your head held high and your shoes shining bright. You’re serving the Obamanation. You believe in the change. Then what will you do? It’s rather tragically hilarious that they changed the titles of the corps leaders from “superintendent” to “campus director” and of the facilities from camp to “campus,” to make it sound more vanilla.
Now, let’s return to Obama’s quote about the civilian corps being just as strong as the military. What is this China circa 1950? And what does this imply? How many nuclear bombs and other WMD does the military currently possess? Red Guard 2.0? This is obviously very exaggerated, as the country just cannot fund this, but the idea remains and looks like phase one has a green light.
They put this in with a bunch of other programs such as giving kids the chance to work over the summer to earn $500 dollars, targeting the kids that come from the lower income brackets, as well as more wealthy children, as it will become a part of the educational system. “Service learning” will be mandatory for the blessed participants.
It will be voted on in the Senate today. But considering that it got 75% in the House, and not that many Democrats are against it (or willing to oppose it), it’s probably going to pass. We just have to see the final wording of the bill.
Congratulations on a successful first 100 days in office buddy!
The clip of Obama’s speech is here:
