Rob Port wrote this, but as an American German it gave me a shiver:
That’s right. The voluntary service of qualifying youths will be mandatory under this plan.
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan to set up a new “volunteer corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” should be developed.
The legislation also refers to “uniforms” that would be worn by the “volunteers” and the “need” for a “public service academy, a 4-year institution” to “focus on training” future “public sector leaders.” The training, apparently, would occur at “campuses.”
The vote yesterday came on H.R. 1388, which reauthorizes through 2014 the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, acts that originally, among other programs, funded the AmeriCorps and the National Senior Service Corps.
Leave it to the dim bulbs in Congress to come up with something that’s voluntarily mandatory. You’ll do it, or they’ll make you do it.
But that laughable bit of stupidity aside, this is actually rather scary. Government-run campuses aimed at “training” future bureaucrats and politicians? A place where attendance will be mandatory?
This sounds suspiciously like indoctrination camps aimed at producing a new generation of “citizens” who will be much easier for the government to manage without all this foolish dissent and debate. And why not. It’s not like we’re living in a free country or anything.
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I heard of something similar to this from my grandmother back in the 1920's and 30's. A friend of my Dad's was sent to a so called government 'volunteer' camp by his Dad after he remarried. Ivan was now in the way of the new marriage and new wife. His biological Mother had been shot and killed in a robbery. His step Mother did not want him. Ivan spent 6 years in this camp doing so called 'volunteer' work for the government. My grandmother finally persuaded his Dad to let her adopt Ivan and she brought him home to raise with my Dad. Unfortunately, Ivan was broken and never recovered from this experience. His Dad had everything to do with it, but the government did not help at all.
Many had no choice about 'volunteering'.
Jesus, please come soon!
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