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09-21-2009
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Subject: Republicans/Democrats: Who Can Tell the Difference?
Just as during the last presidential campaign, there was no
fundamental difference between John McCain and Barack Obama in their
calls for national service, we now have former president George H.W.
Bush joining with President Obama on October 16, 2009 for
A
Presidential Forum on Service.
From their joint announcement:
"The event will honor the enormous advances of the service
movement that began 20 years ago under the leadership of
President George H.W. Bush and that has been sustained and grown
through the leadership of Presidents Clinton and George W.
Bush. The movement is now being extended under the Obama
administration ..."
Both political parties are morally bankrupt. Neither offers an
alternative which respects and defends your most basic individual
right — the right to your own life.
This is very possibly the most important issue that we currently face,
because the implications are more fundamental to the preservations of
our liberty. The Obama administration is committed to instituting
mandatory national service for all citizens. The United We Serve
operation at serve.gov is just a prelude to the next step, which if
enacted, will mean that the government will have established a
claim of ownership over the lives of every US citizen. If you
grant them the right to impose control over three months of your life,
then you have no grounds for opposing a later increase to six months,
two years, or a lifetime of service to the state. You life is either
yours to do with as you choose, or it isn't. There is no middle
ground.
It is important that this push be halted in its tracks. Please do
everything you can to oppose this insidious drive for conscription.
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