HR 1388 just passed, page 1

I just saw the bill pass live on C-Span. Get ready for "Servitude". Senate, fuhgettaboutit, just need Obama's signature with no less than 10 pens. National service laws re-authorized.

Here is the proof:


www.govtrack.us...





[edit on 18-3-2009 by timewalker]

reply to post by timewalker

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What is this about?
Who came up with it?

reply to post by Clearskies

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Here is the Library of Congress Link


link

I can never get the links to work. Look at the many threads on ATS. Sorry.


[edit on 18-3-2009 by timewalker]

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mod edit to fix link

[edit on 21-3-2009 by DontTreadOnMe]

reply to post by timewalker

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Here it is;
thomas.loc.gov...
Obama's mandatory, volunteer service?

PART I--PROGRAMS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY STUDENTS

`SEC. 111. ASSISTANCE TO STATES, TERRITORIES, AND INDIAN TRIBES.

`(a) Purpose- School-based service learning programs promote service-learning as a strategy to--
`(1) support high-quality service-learning projects that engage students in meeting community needs with demonstrable results, while enhancing students' academic and civic learning; and
`(2) support efforts to build institutional capacity, including the training of educators, and to strengthen the service infrastructure to expand service opportunities.

What is that?
They want to work Elementary children?

[edit on 18-3-2009 by Clearskies]

reply to post by Essan

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You need to wake up friend, and see the real consequences of this. Yes, they start with the children...you know...those who are better off doing good out there for the government than living with their druggie parents-
Step 1. Take as many children as possible away from their government perceived incompetent parents.
Step 2- Hell, might as well send the parents to pick cotton too, Communist style. It will keep them busy.

Come on, this is not a small thing. This is BIG.

reply to post by dgtempe

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Exactly!
I am worried about this passing.
Why can't they focus on the economy, instead of this program for inner cities, and other less important 'changes'?

[edit on 18-3-2009 by Clearskies]

Originally posted by Clearskies
reply to post by dgtempe

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Exactly!
I am worried about this passing.
Why can't they focus on the economy, instead of this program for inner cities, and stem cell research???

As this administrations catch phrase puts it "never waste a good crisis."

While the nation is preoccupied with this money crap and worrying about a million wasted here and there all sorts of those "too small to care about" issues
can get slid through from mandatory servitude to civilian disarmament to banning private gardens to god knows what.

Meanwhile everybody's complaining about some executive who donated thousands to the politicians getting rewarded millions for his loyalty in money that has no real intrinsic value in the first place.

To Essan;
Does England STILL have forced servitude?
How well did that go?
The U.S. has a 13th amendment of the constitution;
Wiki

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was adopted on December 6, 1865, and was then declared in a proclamation of Secretary of State William H. Seward on December 18.
At the time of its ratification, slavery remained legal only in Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri. In New Jersey, former slaves born before 1804 could still legally be held as "apprentices," a condition essentially equivalent to slavery; former border slave state Maryland had banned slavery in the constitution it had passed the previous year. Everywhere else in the United States slaves had been freed by state action or Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Lincoln and others were concerned that the Emancipation Proclamation would be seen as a temporary war measure, and so, besides freeing slaves in those states where slavery was still legal, they supported the Amendment as a means to guarantee the permanent abolition of slavery.
The Thirteenth Amendment is the first of the Reconstruction Amendments.

[edit on 18-3-2009 by Clearskies]

Originally posted by dgtempe
reply to post by Essan

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You need to wake up friend, and see the real consequences of this.

I'm in the Uk, but the way I see it is that kids need to learn a sense of social resonsibility and this may be a way of doing it. And it's no different to indoctorating them in govt propaganda at school (which is all they learn)

Do you object to State schooling?

Why do you object to kids cleaning theor neighbourhood instead of treating it like a trashcan?

Worse thing that ever happened in Britain was the abolition of National Service. I wouldn't advocate a return to that for everyone - but a similar scheme with youngsters carrying out community work might just be the best possible thing to solve an awful lot of youth related problems (drink, drugs, sex, vandalism, murder etc). Wouldn't work in all cases but it;s a try.

And as an aside I have a Stepbrother who was a complete wastrel and had no respect for anyone until he joined the Territiorial Army and got sent to Bosnia. Returned a sensible, responsible adult. In a society where nearly everyone has far more than they need and everything is provided on a plate, it helps them see reality and grow up.

I'm in full support of such schemes.

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When you put it in those terms, could it be that someone in the Whitehouse (or their radical wife) wants to get even with the white folks for slavery? Even though no living white person in the U.S. has ever owned a slave and no living black person in the U.S. ever was a slave.

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