House Passes Volunteerism Bill (HR 1388)

Kucinich!! WTF?! I thought that little bastard socialist was at least smarter than this when it came to civil liberties and the police state. Guess I was wrong.

As posters before me have mentioned, mandatory service of any sort would quite literally represent a return to slavery. Any action in which you partake, that isn't a function of your freewill, and one that is enforced by threat of government force, is a form of slavery. I don't care how benign your ambitions, as long as you utilize the threat of force, whether it be against an individual personally or against their property, you are participating in slavery. If I said that you could help clean up a park or spend a week in a cell in my basement, my ambitions to have a litter-free park are negated by the fact that I used physical threats to force you to participate. Obviously that's a crime, and yet our very congress is doing no less by instating this outdated and frankly evil piece of legislation.

What's even more ridiculous is that the very people most in support of this slavery bill are also those who have for years been fighting for increased minimum wage laws and stronger unions in order to "protect" workers from companies that would "exploit" them. If this isn't sickening hypocrisy, then I don't know what is.

All the language refers to The Corporation has rights to deal with this or to approve that. For example:

‘(d) Awards-

‘(1) IN GENERAL- Using sums appropriated under section 501(a)(1)(C), the Corporation shall provide an award to institutions designated under subsection (c), to be used by the institutions to develop or disseminate service-learning models and best practices regarding service-learning to other institutions of higher education.

‘(2) PLANS- To be eligible to receive funds under this subsection, an institution designated under subsection (c) shall submit a plan to the Corporation describing how the institution intends to use the funds to encourage or assist those students to pursue public service careers in the nonprofit sector or government.

‘(3) ALLOCATION- The Corporation shall determine how the funds appropriated under section 501(a)(1)(C) for a fiscal year will be allocated among the institutions submitting acceptable plans under paragraph (2). In determining the amount of funds to be allocated to such an institution, the Corporation shall consider the number of students at the institution, and the quality and scope of the plan submitted by the institution under paragraph (2) and the institution’s current (as of the date of submission of the plan) strategies to encourage or assist students to pursue public service careers in the nonprofit sector or government.’.

Or

‘(c) Nominations and Designation-

‘(1) NOMINATION-

‘(A) IN GENERAL- A State Commission that receives applications from institutions of higher education under subsection (b) may nominate, for designation under subsection (a), not more than 3 such institutions of higher education, consisting of--

‘(i) not more than one 4-year public institution of higher education;

‘(ii) not more than one 4-year private institution of higher education; and

‘(iii) not more than one 2-year institution of higher education.

‘(B) SUBMISSION- The State Commission shall submit to the Corporation the name and application of each institution nominated by the State Commission under subparagraph (A).

‘(2) DESIGNATION- The Corporation shall designate, under subsection (a), not more than 25 institutions of higher education from among the institutions nominated under paragraph (1). In making the designations, the Corporation shall, if feasible, designate various types of institutions, including institutions from each of the categories of institutions described in clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of paragraph (1)(A).

This language may sound familiar to some of us. People who have studied the UCC (Uniform Commercial Code) know that this is referring to "The United States of America" 's corporation entity. I just find it blatant that they aren't even declaring this for the Constitutional US and are just dropping all of that altogether - choosing the true Corporation that we really are to be the entity that's joining in contract with the states.

How many other people noticed that?

http://www.opencongress.org/roll_call/show/5358

My rep is going to get an earful.

it seems the only justifiable need would be to help protect our borders from illegals.

How do we get rid of these as*holes? We sit and wait for another election?..By then...its going to be way to late...There has to be a way...Between the Constitution..and all the real laws on the books..there has got to be some way.
Anybody....???.....Ideas???....Ones that dont involve a neck tie party

Freedom is another way to God...A corrupt government is a straight way to hell.

that what has passed at this point is merely authorization to STUDY the issue, and that the service itself has NOT been passed??? In other words we still have time to educate and protest this?
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