Pure tyranny now. No doubt that this Admin. will take personal liberties, free enterprise innovations from the American scene. We will be forced to be socialists and no one can stop this unless the voters simply rise up and throw out some Dems in 2010.
What happens if the emperor's call for his legions to go forth upon gilded shoe leather—make that injection-molded Chinese sneaker soles—goes unheeded? What if the numbers just are not there? Then again, what happens if the answer to the call is an unprecedented mobilization of zealously willing automatons? Either way, these are the very children and childish adults he is banking on to fill his “mandatory volunteer” army's ranks.
This has little if anything to do with garnering support for his budget and bailout scam, and everything to do with testing response and fervor.
Ours is not the first time history has witnessed a country's young people and “true believers” being commanded to go forth and spread the word, recruit for the cause, and take names and addresses. Continents, decades, and ideologies apart, what followed soon thereafter has been in every case always and predictably the same.