Creating a New Army of Patriots

While reading his "Nation Service Plan Highlights" as posted on www.johnkerry.com it struck me that Kerry's plan sounded a lot like the plans and programs Hitler used to hoodwink Germany. Am I the only one that thinks this? From the site.

National Service Plan Highlights "Service for College" Initiative

As President, John Kerry will call on young people to help strengthen America's security and address unmet community needs. In return, he believes we should offer young Americans and their families the opportunity for a college education. A Kerry Administration will offer Americans the chance to earn the equivalent of their state's four-year public college tuition in exchange for two years of service. If service members decide not to go to college, their award can be used for job training or to help start a business. John Kerry will set a national goal of half a million young people serving their nation every year within ten years. President Bush promised to double AmeriCorps, but he broke that promise and let Congressional Republicans cut the program in half. John Kerry believes we need to think big and do better and get 500,000 young Americans serving the nation.

100,000 Older Americans in Service

As President, John Kerry will defend and strengthen vital programs such as Medicare and Social Security, but he also believes on calling on America's seniors to give their time, experience, and expertise to an America that needs their help. As President, John Kerry would create the Retired Not Tired Program. By mentoring students, helping the infirm, or working in their communities for 10 hours a week, members can earn up to $2,000 a year tax free that they can apply to an education grant for a family member or a member of their community. Alternatively, seniors will be able to use these funds to defray their own health care costs. John Kerry plans to engage 100,000 seniors a year in service in the next decade.

High School Service Requirement

As President, John Kerry will ensure that every high school student in America performs community service as a requirement for graduation. This service will be a rite of passage for our nation’s youth and will help foster a lifetime of service. States would design service programs that meet their community and educational needs. However, John Kerry does not believe in unfunded mandates. No state would be obligated to implement a service requirement if the federal government does not live up to its obligation to fund the program.

Creating a New Community Defense Service

John Kerry believes we must create a new Community Defense Service to be guided by our nation’s first responders. This service would be comprised of hundreds of thousands of Americans in neighborhoods all over the country. Service captains would be there to make sure our communities have the information they need and are ready to respond a crisis, complimenting but not supplanting the work done by police, fire fighters, and other first defenders. Volunteer Service Captains would receive training and education to assist their communities in the event of an attack. They would be trained to help identify local health professionals and experts in the area, provide information on local evacuation or quarantine plans, and stand ready to be of assistance to first defenders. This initiative would be funded out of the Department of Homeland Security and administered by local community leaders, including first responders. This 'surge' capacity would be in addition to the expanded numbers of first responders John Kerry has already proposed hiring.

A Summer of Service for Teenagers

Thirteen to seventeen year olds are too old for child care and too young for many summer jobs. John Kerry believes we should tap their energy and idealism through a summer of service learning. Supervised by AmeriCorps members, these young people could help out in nursing homes, clean up local areas, or teach seniors computer skills. In turn, they would receive a $500 grant to apply to their college or vocational educations down the road. Parents do not want to leave their children alone all summer but most cannot afford other means of care. The Summer of Service program would give parents peace of mind and at the same time build more responsible and dedicated young citizens and stronger, more vibrant communities.

A Rebirth of the Peace Corps

If there was ever a time that everyday people in developing countries around the world needed to see idealistic, hard-working Americans struggling to help them succeed, it is today, in the aftermath of September 11th. Peace Corps members are the greatest ambassadors of goodwill and foot soldiers for democratization this nation has - and we need more of them. John Kerry believes we need a major expansion of the Peace Corps for this new century and in this new era. In the White House, John Kerry will push to expand the Peace Corps to 25,000 members.

Recruiting More Americans to the Military

1 posted on 09/29/2004 4:41:37 PM PDT by Tweaker

These are no more than re-education camps and programs to teach everyone the PC way.

2 posted on 09/29/2004 4:44:22 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)

To: SittinYonder

3 posted on 09/29/2004 4:45:17 PM PDT by eyespysomething (Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.)

1. I'm not sure he is aware of how much tuition at UVA is.

2. Why do kids get four years of tuition or the equivalent in cash, but seniors, just get a few scraps for their service. Sounds like discrimination to me.

4 posted on 09/29/2004 4:45:47 PM PDT by NavVet (“Benedeict Arnold was wounded in battle fighting for America, but no one remembers him for that.”)

.....requiring mandatory service for high school students and four years of college tuition in exchange for two years of national service.

Looks like a "draft" to me.

5 posted on 09/29/2004 4:46:58 PM PDT by afnamvet (Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 Jet Noise...The Sound of Freedom!)

One more step towards the guvmint owning you from cradle to grave - literally. After we win this election, we have to come up with a comprehensive program to run these SOB's out of our country, because it sure as hell isn't theirs. Citizens of convenience don't deserve protections of the Constitution, and they've done everything but denounce their birthright at this point.

6 posted on 09/29/2004 4:50:40 PM PDT by Viking2002

No, it is called Peace through Joy.

7 posted on 09/29/2004 4:53:07 PM PDT by donmeaker (Why did the Romans cross the road? To keep the slaves from revolting again.)

God what a scary bunch !!! I can almost hear the sound of jackboots on cobblestones & the ringing cries of seig heil.

The talking heads in the MSM are running the hoax that the GOP wants to bring back the draft the bastards know that its Kerry & its gonna be a helluva lot more than just the draft.

9 posted on 09/29/2004 4:55:53 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Here's to Abdul seeing the light ,preferably from a 20 megaton nuke up close & personal)

No, it is called Peace through Joy.

LOL!

10 posted on 09/29/2004 4:56:47 PM PDT by afnamvet (Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 Jet Noise...The Sound of Freedom!)

11 posted on 09/29/2004 5:01:53 PM PDT by Petronski (DEMS: Kim tested, Osama approved.)

It is all part of the world Socialist goal of having the US under the thumb of the world socialist community, of which Kerry is a gleeful member.

Kerry's Communist roots go back before his VVAW days. They are not about Freedom, they are about Serfdom.

The VVAW was backed by Communists and funded by the same, some of the communist money came from countries overseas.

12 posted on 09/29/2004 5:08:23 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)

Is John Kerry a War Criminal and a Traitor?

Consider the following.

After the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong were decimated, the North Vietnam Communists were beaten, but with the Socialist leaning press in America and the VVAW’s antiwar protests the North Vietnamese Communists decided to hold on. John Kerry did not join VVAW until after his return from Vietnam in early 1969, and until then VVAW didn’t have very many members (8,500) and were not very successful at getting heard. The FBI reports that VVAW was nearly inactive until the Moratoriums in the fall of 1969. See pg 90 So, the press and the antiwar movement in America prevented the North Vietnamese Communists from surrendering.

This meant that instead of a US victory in South Vietnam and freedom for the South Vietnamese we had about 10,000 more US deaths from the time John Kerry came on board with the VVAW until the end of the war. America’s POW's were being tortured while listening to tapes of John "Traitor" Kerry calling them baby killers. America’s brave soldiers were dieing in the jungles of Vietnam and John Kerry

The VVAW, an antiwar group, founded in the spring of 1967, which Kerry was one of the national leaders of, was receiving directions from the North Vietnamese Communist Government. VVAW in contact with in contact with NV Communist Government

The directions were on how the VVAW should protest the Vietnam War.

The interaction became so depraved, that the North Vietnamese Communist contacted the VVAW via a phone call and advised the VVAW that they were getting ready to start an attack on US troops and that the VVAW was to be prepared to increase the protests against the increase in bombing that the NV Communists were sure would happen. This put our men in further danger because of John Kerry and VVAW actions. VVAW gets directions from the North Vietnamese Communists

Al Hubbard, a leader of the VVAW briefed the NV, Soviets and other communist countries concerning “Electronic Battlefield Vietnam” as to tactics, methods and equipment which put US troops at extreme risk. Link to EBV

John Kerry had no concern for the lives of his fellow soldiers in Vietnam or the POW's, John Kerry only cared about himself and his ambition to become POTUS, whatever the cost.

How many deaths of United States servicemen does John Kerry have on his hands?

How many families has John Kerry's behavior as a VVAW leader and a traitor to his country caused untold pain and suffering to?

How many unnecessary tears have been cried because John Kerry betrayed our trust to help a Communist government?

Does John Kerry still have ties to Communists in America?

John Kerry was an officer in the US Navy during his protests of the Vietnam War, having not received his discharge until 1978.

Why didn't John Kerry speak out just one time against the war crimes of his "Comrades in Arms the North Vietnamese Communists"?

Steven J. Pitkin says about his Winter Soldier testimony. “John Kerry and other leaders of that event pressured me to testify about American war crimes, despite my repeated statements that I could not honestly do so. One event leader strongly implied that I would not be provided transportation back to my home in Baltimore, Maryland, if I failed to comply. Kerry and other leaders of the event instructed me to publicly state that I had witnessed incidents of rape, brutality, atrocities and racism, knowing that such statements would necessarily be untrue.”

I've also been wondering why Kerry never reported the atrocities he supposedly witnessed while in Vietnam. Maybe because Kerry may have never witnessed any atrocities while he was in Vietnam. The VVAW leaders were meeting with the North Vietnamese Communist Government, leaders of the Communist Party in Moscow, and possibly the KGB, leaders of the Communist Party International in Paris, leaders of the Communist Party USA, and last but not least the group of Communists in South Vietnam that backed the North Vietnamese Communists.

These Communist groups were directing the VVAW leaders as to what they wanted them to do, when they wanted them to do it, and that is what the VVAW did.

So in a nutshell, when the world communist leaders told Kerry and his VVAW group what to do, that is what they did, no questions asked.

And that there is this posted by Freeper Fedora:

According to Newsweek magazine, Kerry met with Liu Chaohying, a Hong Kong businesswoman who wanted to have her company listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange. Kerry lobbied on her behalf by helping to organize a meeting between Liu Chaohying and a senior Securities and Exchange (SEC) official.

In return, Kerry accepted a $10,000 contribution in the form of a Beverly Hills Fundraise on Sept 9, 1996, less than a month before the election, Newsweek reported.

It would later be established that Liu Chaohying was not simply a profit-motivated businesswoman, but rather a lieutenant colonel in the Communist China's Peoples Liberation Army.

Newsweek reported that more than $28,000 in illegal contributions were funneled into the campaign of then President Bill Clinton and Kerry, and that "the contributions came out of $300,00 in overseas wire transfers sent on orders from the chief of the Chinese military intelligence - and routed through a Hong Kong bank account controlled by Liu Chaohying."

The Los Angeles Times reported that Senator Kerry sent 28 letters on behalf of San Diego defense contractor Parthassarthi "Bob" Majumder between 1996 and 1999 in order to "free up federal funds" for a guided missile system designed by Majumder. In return, court documents show, Majumder induced his employees to contribute approximately $25,000 to Senator Kerry's campaign, while paying them proceeds from the government tracts in return.

13 posted on 09/29/2004 5:09:37 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)

Our Socialist buddy Kerry has plans for America ping.

14 posted on 09/29/2004 5:10:40 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)

This is flat out scarey. Kerry or any other President doesn't have a right to tell my kids they have to volunteer -- that is not his place -- it is their choice!

The more I read what Kerry wants, the more I am reminded of a Communist dictator! :(

15 posted on 09/29/2004 5:24:19 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Oklahoma is Reagan Country and now Bush Country -- Vote for Dr. Tom)

If we fail to beat Commie Kerry at the polls, what do we do then. Hide all guns and get on our knees to king Kerry or is there another path to take?

16 posted on 09/29/2004 5:29:04 PM PDT by Happy Farmer

"The more I read what Kerry wants, the more I am reminded of a Communist dictator! :("

Exactly how I have always thought of him personally, but I see his plan as mixture Nazi/Communist propaganda and indoctrination.

17 posted on 09/29/2004 5:33:29 PM PDT by Tweaker

...doesn't have a right to tell my kids they have to volunteer....

Webster defines voluntary as: proceeding from the will or from one's own choice or consent

It is not voluntary if someone compels you to do it.

18 posted on 09/29/2004 5:34:23 PM PDT by pop-aye (For every journey, there is a higher path.)

I've said it many times before, and this thread helps reinforce it:

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS AMERIKA'S COMMUNIST PARTY

19 posted on 09/29/2004 5:44:35 PM PDT by datura (The DNC is America's wannabe politburo.)

Please use the original headlines when posting articles. It helps to prevent duplicate postings.

Thanks.

20 posted on 09/29/2004 5:44:52 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator

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