Hitler knew that if you control the youth, you control the future. I wrote about him in "The Threats to Homeschooling: From Hitler to the NEA." As I noted in that article, Hitler said:
"The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of innoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled.
The Hitler Youth were started in the 1920s, and by 1933 numbered more than 100,000. Hitler said his goal was a strong Germany. In 1934, he told a crowd at a Nuremberg Rally, "regardless of whatever we create and do, we shall pass away, but in you, Germany will live on and when nothing is left to us, you will have to hold up the banner which some time ago we lifted out of nothingness.
In 1939, membership was compulsory for children over 17. Its membership comprised 90% of the country’s young. In 1941, membership was mandatory for any child over ten.
There are former members of the Hitler Youth living today, including the current Pope. One has to wonder what they think of HR 1388, the “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education,” which would create what some are calling the Obama Youth Brigade.
On Monday, the House passed it. It is currently in the Senate, where enough Republicans are weak enough to vote for it.
The bill has more than a few reasons to create worry. From Red State:
1. The bill will substantially increase the size and reach of an existing federal government program;
2. The bill will burden taxpayers with more than 5 billion tax dollars at a time when we should be cutting back, not spending more;
3. The bill will steer funding and volunteers for public service away from churches, individuals, neighbors, and others who would like to lend a helping hand and toward organizations selected by bureaucrats;
4. The bill is full of vague language and has insufficient safeguards to prevent left-wing special interest groups from using tax dollars to advance their agenda in the name of “community service;”
5. The bill risks politicizing charity and community service by funneling funds and volunteers toward the preferred organizations picked by ideologues;
6. The first 25% of this bill is really education legislation, and should be in an education bill at the state level; and
7. The bill will compound the disincentives created by new limits on federal tax deductions for charitable giving, thereby decreasing the role of families, churches and other local organizations in their communities.When you look at the details – one realizes that it’s far worse than even that… more along the lines of full-scale indoctrination camps toward Statism. The legislation will, in many circumstances, force our children to participate in charitable activity as part of school – and that activity may well be chosen by or approved by a bureaucrat. The bill causes a federally chartered, Washington-based institution to, essentially, pick priorities and winners and losers in the charitable universe – undoubtedly putting many charities at a significant disadvantage…
Here’s another disturbing part of the bill. It directs a committee to look into mandating service, i.e. making it compulsory:
"The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service. (6) Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed, and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the Nation and overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds."
If the program is made mandatory, and it’s hard to believe it won’t be, it will mandate middle and high school students to 50 hours a year. College students will be on the hook for 100 hours. And with this mandatory service, aka forced labor, comes some other restrictions on your liberties. It prohibits religious activities. From The Voice Magazine (h/t Gateway Pundit):
The Bill would forbid any student in the brigade to participate in “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.” That means no church attendance or witnessing.
Again, is this what America voted for? Here is part of the HR1388 Bill’s wording:
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.
…
(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.
For those of you who find themselves still clinging to those religious beliefs, the service will help you with that.
There are a few posts on this that I think you should take the time to review. Chicago Ray has put together a great post detailing his coverage of the movement. Flopping Aces also wrote a fantastic post on the topic.
UPDATE
The Senate passed the bill today. Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe again voted with the Democrats to pass it.
UPDATE 2:
Linked at World Net Daily.
Read Psalms 37:10,11,29. We are living in the last days of this wicked world. Soon our Creator will step in and his Government, with Christ Jesus as King will solve all mankind's problems. (Dan. 2:44) Read your Bibles!
MY SISTER IN CHRIST JESUS Marie is right I just told our so called president Mr . OBAMA that he is making some very bad choices & told him to read his BIBLE If he has one!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUR GOD DOES NOT LIKE WHAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW !!!!!!!!!!! MR. OBAMA HE HAS or IS THINKING OF APPOINTING A MR. KEVIN JENNINGS (GLSEN) TO WATCH OVER OUR CHILDREN’S SAFETY IN SCHOOL HE IS GAY & GOD DOES NOT LIKE IT!!!!!! ALSO MR. OBAMA HAS ALLOWED THE HAMAS TERRORIST GROUP ASYLUM IN OUR COUNTRY. GOD SAID I WILL REPAY THE ENEMY OF MY PEOPLE!!!!!!! LOOK IN YOUR BIBLES IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME !!!!!!!!!!! Your sister JoAnna
MY SISTER IN CHRIST JESUS Marie is right I just told our so called president Mr . OBAMA that he is making some very bad choices & told him to read his BIBLE If he has one!!!!!!!!!!!!! OUR GOD DOES NOT LIKE WHAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW !!!!!!!!!!! MR. OBAMA HE HAS or IS THINKING OF APPOINTING A MR. KEVIN JENNINGS (GLSEN) TO WATCH OVER OUR CHILDREN’S SAFETY IN SCHOOL HE IS GAY & GOD DOES NOT LIKE IT!!!!!! ALSO MR. OBAMA HAS ALLOWED THE HAMAS TERRORIST GROUP ASYLUM IN OUR COUNTRY. GOD SAID I WILL REPAY THE ENEMY OF MY PEOPLE!!!!!!! LOOK IN YOUR BIBLES IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME !!!!!!!!!!! Your sister JoAnna
In this world we are living in and the Country I served was founded on “IN GOD WE TRUST”, and now we are trying to take GOD out of this. The world is going down and the people that voted for Obama started it. He is not my savior he is just a man. I think he is bringing in the era of the anti Christ. I read this and I see a world that is going to be like Sodom and Gomorra and all that have read our Bible’s know what happened to that place. Here is the worst part, “The Bill would forbid any student in the brigade to participate in “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.” That means no church attendance or witnessing.
Again, is this what America voted for? Here is part of the HR1388 Bill’s wording:
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.
We all need to stop looking at Obama and look to the right place and that is Jesus Christ the Lord God and the true SAVOUR!!!!!!
Sgt William P Burns RET United State Marine Corps.
In this world we are living in and the Country I served was founded on “IN GOD WE TRUST”, and now we are trying to take GOD out of this. The world is going down and the people that voted for Obama started it. He is not my savior he is just a man. I think he is bringing in the era of the anti Christ. I read this and I see a world that is going to be like Sodom and Gomorra and all that have read our Bible’s know what happened to that place. Here is the worst part, “The Bill would forbid any student in the brigade to participate in “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.” That means no church attendance or witnessing.
Again, is this what America voted for? Here is part of the HR1388 Bill’s wording:
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.
We all need to stop looking at Obama and look to the right place and that is Jesus Christ the Lord God and the true SAVOUR!!!!!!
Sgt William P Burns RET United State Marine Corps.
Oh nooooooo, big bad Obama is coming to get you.
It’s time for you conservative knuckledraggers to face reality. Your side lost. Get over it.
Oh nooooooo, big bad Obama is coming to get you.
It’s time for you conservative knuckledraggers to face reality. Your side lost. Get over it.
[...] Lester, writing at All American Blogger, has verbalized opponents’ worst [...]
K.Simms
How stupid can you get? Oh, never mind. You voted for Obama.
K.Simms
How stupid can you get? Oh, never mind. You voted for Obama.
Now, I haven’t gone to the bill itself and read it, but I’m assuming that what it means is that organizations that are eligible for funding under this bill can’t be religious in nature. That doesn’t mean that a student that participates in the program cannot be religious or attend church, just that for their however many hours of community service they can’t serve it through teaching sunday school or cleaning up a church building for free or going door to door spreading the name of the good Lord.
Also, speaking on mandatory service. Why would having students, many of whom do not do a damn thing to help others in need, do something to better their community be a wretched, horrible thing? As a future teacher, I think it is a wonderful tool to teach students that we do live in a community and we should do what we can to give back and help. Now, if a student in my class wants to volunteer by watching young children at church on a Sunday while the adults are in Sunday school or what have you, I personally have no problem with that. However, if I’m bound by the state and the federal government to require my students to participate in non-religious related service, then I’m going to because I can’t afford to lose the salary I’ll be making despite being an overworked, underpaid, and unappreciated educator in our country. But that’s a completely different soap box that I won’t get on right now :)
Now, I haven’t gone to the bill itself and read it, but I’m assuming that what it means is that organizations that are eligible for funding under this bill can’t be religious in nature. That doesn’t mean that a student that participates in the program cannot be religious or attend church, just that for their however many hours of community service they can’t serve it through teaching sunday school or cleaning up a church building for free or going door to door spreading the name of the good Lord.
Also, speaking on mandatory service. Why would having students, many of whom do not do a damn thing to help others in need, do something to better their community be a wretched, horrible thing? As a future teacher, I think it is a wonderful tool to teach students that we do live in a community and we should do what we can to give back and help. Now, if a student in my class wants to volunteer by watching young children at church on a Sunday while the adults are in Sunday school or what have you, I personally have no problem with that. However, if I’m bound by the state and the federal government to require my students to participate in non-religious related service, then I’m going to because I can’t afford to lose the salary I’ll be making despite being an overworked, underpaid, and unappreciated educator in our country. But that’s a completely different soap box that I won’t get on right now :)
This is a very poor attempt to scare monger people! Misquoting the legislation – leaving out facts – Obviously truth is not on the side of the article as they have to use the old cheap ways of bending and misquoting.
This is a very poor attempt to scare monger people! Misquoting the legislation – leaving out facts – Obviously truth is not on the side of the article as they have to use the old cheap ways of bending and misquoting.
Read Psalms 37:10,11,29. We are living in the last days of this wicked world. Soon our Creator will step in and his Government, with Christ Jesus as King will solve all mankind's problems. (Dan. 2:44) Read your Bibles!