Posted on 03/25/2009 12:15:13 PM PDT by Hetty_Fauxvert
This appeared in our local rag. Thought you might find it of interest.
It’s Orwellian Newspeak, of course. The essay at the end of Orwell’s “1984” makes everything clear.
Nobody believes me when I tell them about this bill.
Thewy will find out for themselves soon enough.
You beat me to it. Yes it’s Orwellian. We’re going to have mandatory volunteerism. Of course, makes perfect sense.
If this were to be passed (which I don’t think will happen), it will soon be challenged in the Supreme Court and the Feds would lose.
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.Note that it doesn't say that Congress can impose mandatory service on anyone they want.Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Maybe the Democrats plan on blacks becoming slaves again? It wouldn't surprise me if they did.
Try to think of it as a “Domestic Contingency Operation”.
Me either. I teach private school and I told my students about this bill today and they left class raging mad. I have already had an adult in the office here (who had no clue about the bill) tell the students that they were blowing things way out of proportion and making stuff up. I told her, no they are not...read it yourself. She looked at me with a very skeptical look on her face.
There is rumor that the funding for the Public Service Academy (Acorn University) will be derived from the closing of one or more existing Military Academies.
Mandatory/Required volunteering of 100 hours by all High School and Middle School students.
He’s just spreadin’ the slave trade around.
“Were going to have mandatory volunteerism. Of course, makes perfect sense.”
You already have it, it is called income taxes. Read the statement in the front of your tax book, also on you tube you can find a video of Harry Reid talking about how taxes are voluntary.
It is Stalinist. George Orwell was warning of the Stalinsts he’d encountered in the West.
It’s called slavery.
This flies in the face of the 13th amendment and of American traditions of freedom in general (one of the most valuable rights is the right to be left alone), but it will all depend on what five members of the Supreme Court think...so anything is possible.
Obama's goal is to make the US like Cuba under Fidel or Red China under Mao. The New Dealers may have admired Mussolini and Stalin, but even they didn't try to impose mandatory "volunteering" on everyone.
I just wonder how Obama is going to get private schools and private school teachers who don’t get a dime of federal money to participate in this.
People have to let the White House, Congress, and the Senate know via fax, e-mails, phone calls, and letters that in no way will they participate in this crap.
These low lifes who voted for this want to be elected next time around. When this travesty becomes public knowledge (and it sure isn’t now) and people know what the ramifications are for themselves and their families, they will be outraged. It will become that third rail that terrifies government officials and they will do everything they can to distance themselves from it.
That sounds familiar.
I just read this to my son (13) and his response was, “Great, a black president making a bunch of white people into slaves.”
And since when are ‘volunteers’ PAID (Clintoon’s AmeriCorp)
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