Worse than the civil service bill-No more protests, or marches!!!

that clause is in there in order to keep people who are being paid by the government from attempting to influence policy. They're trying to keep people from creating a political army and maintaining it with public money; the bill will not keep average citizens from protesting.

To put in very bluntly: Only people on the dole will have their rights impinged upon; that's the price of government aid.

can make you do whatever they want. In reality, some of those prohibitions have to be there because they could be construed as government trying to end run around the establishment clause and such.

There is one real easy way not to let this bother you or lose any sleep over it:

DO NOT accept federal student aid. For that is who will be required to submit to the 'service' aspect of the program and then incur all these restrictions.

Seriously people, most laws do not apply to everyone. They can't. You have to volunteer yourself into falling under their jurisdiction. So... don't do it.

First we will be required in some way shape or form (required service if you go to school, etc) to take a national approved service position which requires that you don't peaceably assemble, influence legislation or union decisions, campaign for parties, etc, etc?

Hmm... let me think. Our constitution says something about this.. oh yeah, EVERY SINGLE CLAUSE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

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Quick! Look over there!

thing about Rep George Miller, it's his amendment?

Protesting won't go away . . . they're dream'n !
If you practice "no-speak" you practice a cult-religion.

a great bill to have a huge protest against!

H.Amdt 49 to H.R. 1388 Prohibits Organizations From Influencing… Legislation, Protesting or Petitioning.

SEC. 1304. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.

Section 125 (42 U.S.C. 12575) is amended to read as follows: `SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.

`(a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities:

`(1) Attempting to influence legislation.

`(2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes.

`(3) Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing.

`(4) Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements.

`(5) Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office.

`(6) Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials.

`(7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.

`(8) Providing a direct benefit to–

`(A) a business organized for profit;

`(B) a labor organization;

`(C) a partisan political organization;

`(D) a nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative; and

`(E) an organization engaged in the religious activities described in paragraph (7), unless Corporation assistance is not used to support those religious activities.

`(9) Conducting a voter registration drive or using Corporation funds to conduct a voter registration drive.

`(10) Such other activities as the Corporation may prohibit.

`(b) Ineligible Organizations- No assistance provided under this subtitle may be provided to the following types of organizations (including the participation of a participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle in activities conducted by such organizations) or to organizations that are co-located on the same premises as the following organizations:

`(1) Organizations that provide or promote abortion services, including referral for such services.

`(2) For-profit organizations, political parties, labor organizations, or organizations engaged in political or legislative advocacy.

`(3) Organizations that have been indicted for voter fraud.

`(c) Nondisplacement of Employed Workers or Other Volunteers- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not perform any services or duties or engage in activities which–

`(1) would otherwise be performed by an employed worker as part of his or her assigned duties as an employee or by another volunteer who is not a participant in an approved national service position; or

`(2) will supplant the hiring of employed workers or work of such other volunteers.’.

"There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one: The regeneration of the inner man."
—Tolstoy

I RESIST

Spirit of Liberty!

An amendment to a bill only supported by Democrats. I can't believe they have a bill like that. It is totally unconstitutional. Blatantly unconstitutional. People have no idea what they have done giving the Democrats the majority everywhere. We are in for it. That is so awful!

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