Thread: Obama's Youth?

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 jobs 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 upon 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.


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 the 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 Congress members who voted for this monstrosity had a clue what they were voting for. If not, they’re guilty of dereliction of duty. If they did, the implications are truly frightening.


www.sfexaminer.com >> Opinion - Examiner Editorial: Expanded Americorps has stench of authoritarianism

This really is frightening when you consider the report released by DHS and that these young people will be indoctrinated by ACORN.

A conservative against 'indoctrination?'

care to tell us what font of wisdom wrote this crap?

Originally Posted by cluezo

The San Francisco Examiner??!! Wow, now that IS a font of wisdom. An insipid, bankrupt, conservative rag which never made it to the ranks of big time newspapers. The S.F. Chronicle bought it 20 years ago just to get it off the streets. Now it's relegated to a few pathetic online editons. Hardly a think tank and hardly a source of fact. My god, the Examiner!

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for a good laugh...

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BAfKCfu74&feature=related]YouTube - Hail Obama! Ode of the Obama Youth![/ame]


Here is a little preaching but bear with it.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTp_atr2G9E&feature=related]YouTube - Hail Hitler, Hail Obama[/ame]

Just imagine what the reaction would had been if a WHITE man had said this.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es_59215X-g]YouTube - House and Senate PASS "The GIVE Act" - Mandatory Volunteerism (HR 1388/S 277)[/ame]

On March 31st, the House passed the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, H.R. 1388 - legislation that launches a new era of service that will give Americans of all ages an opportunity to invest through service in our nation's recovery. This bill now goes to President Obama for his signature.

President Obama has called on Congress to create new service and volunteer opportunities for Americans that will help to build a stronger country. This legislation answers his call. It will launch a new era of service that will give Americans of all ages the opportunity to help our nation recover and make progress on education, health care, energy and other key goals by volunteering, whether it is helping students achieve in school, weatherizing homes and greening communities, rebuilding cities in times of disaster, feeding the hungry, helping seniors live independently, and much more.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi | Current Legislation

H.R.1388
Title: A bill entitled "The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, an Act to reauthorize and reform the national service laws."
Sponsor: Rep McCarthy, Carolyn [NY-4] (introduced 3/9/2009) Cosponsors (37)
Related Bills: H.RES.250, H.RES.296, S.277
Latest Major Action: 4/20/2009 Presented to President.
House Reports: 111-37

Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress)

Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) tried to stand up for civil society and taxpayers last week but his effort was shot down by liberal Democratic senators.


Vitter tried to prevent the radical direct-action group, ACORN, and its affiliates from benefitting under the odious national service legislation known as the (proposed) GIVE Act. The bill itself, which received a glowing review from John Podesta's pro-Obama propaganda factory, the Center for American Progress, would give government money to volunteer programs and would dramatically expand the feel-good liberal program, AmeriCorps, which ACORN and other groups have used to promote their own political objectives.


Vitter's amendment to the bill known as HR1388 would have prevented ACORN from receiving funding under the legislation and from participating in any program authorized by it involving the use of government-sponsored volunteers.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Democrats Kill Provision in AmeriCorps Bill that Would Keep Funds from ACORN

[ame=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7402496045746354887]Beware of the GIVE Act![/ame]

(6) 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.

GovTrack: H.R. 1388: Text of Legislation, Introduced in House

The groundwork for this civilian army controlled by Obama was accomplished in the Senate on March 25. The Obama-compliant U.S. Senate passed the Serve America Act (S. 3487), which is being portrayed as a way of encouraging volunteerism in America. It is sponsored by extreme liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA).

This bill creates a National Service Reserve Corps that allegedly is only for aiding in national disasters and other emergencies. It will use colleges and universities as bases of operation for training students to “serve” their communities.

S. 3487 will use these volunteers to assist non-profits, faith-based groups and other civic organizations to improve “the capacity of such organizations.” In other words, to help liberal nonprofits to promote Obama’s social agenda.

Obama supporters in Alabama are campaigning throughout Birmingham for passage of Obama’s $9.3 trillion dollar spending binge. The organizers are part of Organizing for America. A leader of this group is Chris DeHaven. He told his volunteers: “We’re looking for supporters. We’re not looking for a fight. That will come later, when we have an army.”

It appears that Obama and his lockstep Congress have given DeHaven the uniformed army he wants.

House Version For Civilian Security Army

The House also passed H.R. 1388. This is worse than the Senate version. If elements of this bill are added to the Senate version, it will give Obama the basis for creating his civilian security force – a Brown Shirts army.

The House legislation reauthorizes the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973.

H.R. 1388’s official title is: “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism And Education Act (GIVE Act).

H.R. 1388 authorizes new studies and programs with an allocation of $6 billion over the next five years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Think of it: $6 billion to train people to volunteer.

The legislation appears to be laying the ground work for Obama’s goal of having 250,000 “volunteers” who will engage in community involvement activities.

In fact, Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel may have laid the groundwork for this civilian security force. In 2006, Emanuel wrote a book called The Plan. On pages 60-65, he calls for universal conscription of 18-25 year olds for civilian service! “All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.”

H.R. 1388 discusses “volunteerism” but also indicates that there might be mandatory participation in these activities. It states “if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.” This requirement, “would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.”

These conscripts or “volunteers” would be:

… grouped together as appropriate in campuses for operational, support, and boarding purposes. The Corps campus for a unit shall be in a facility or central location established as the operational headquarters and boarding place for the unit. … There shall be a superintendent for each camp."

The legislation also refers to these volunteers wearing “uniforms” and discusses the need for a public service academy – a four-year institution that would train “public sector leaders.”

Under Subtitle E – The National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), this bill sets up a residential community service program for young adults ages 14-24. It requires that at least 50% of the participants be disadvantaged youth from ethnically diverse backgrounds.

H.R. 1388 will establish an army of uniformed “volunteers” or conscripts, who will engage in public sector work. These uniformed Obamunists would be used for “pressing national and local challenges.” What would those be? Going house to house to confiscate guns? Tracking down individuals accused of hate speech? Rounding up “volunteers” to be put into labor camps?

Would these Obama Brown Shirts* look like the young teenagers who marched into a classroom chanting “Alpha and Omega” and describing how Obama was going to transform their lives?

This army of 250,000 uniformed “volunteers” could be used to intimidate anyone opposed to Obama’s socialist agenda.

$6 Billion To Train People To Volunteer?

I thought anything from San Francisco was liberal

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAx4OnfdJaI]YouTube - Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin on the GIVE Act[/ame]