01-06-2010
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Jerusalem Post
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Subject: Civic Responsibility Should Not Be Optional - Got That?
The call — no demand — for compulsory
national
service
is a plague sweaping across entire world. Daily there are reports from
countries in
Africa,
Australia,
Asia,
the
Caribbean,
the
Middle East,
Russia,
and
Western Europe.
where politicians propose ever increasing draconian legislation that
places the lives of average citizens under the control of their
governments, to be directed to perform tasks which were not voluntarily
chosen.
Take, for example, the article written by Danny Ayalon, the deputy
minister of foreign affairs in Israel. In a piece titled,
Civic responsibility should not be optional, the author,
while acknowledging that:
"the past year has seen an almost 100-percent increase in
the number of Arab-Israelis volunteering for National
Service"
states that in the last election, his party, Israel Beiteinu, called
for mandatory service:
"making civic responsibility and its corollary, enhanced
loyalty to the state where one resides, a part of its
platform."
Once again we see expressed, the view that the state is the primary
civic entity, to which duty and loyalty are to be commanded from each
of its subservient citizens.
The United State may well be the next country to adopt this program,
if the Obama administration has its way. Here is a link to the
Americans for a National
Service Act, a group with the following mission:
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ANSA Mission:
As Americans for a National Service Act, we prioritize National
Service as the most important public issue for the United
States at the beginning of the 21st Century. Our reasoning is
simple. Get Americans reengaged in the decision-making and
functioning of this country through selfless 'hands on'
service, and a cultural change will occur that will make
solutions to all of our other problems possible. Without this,
it doesn't matter which President we elect, how much treasure
we collect, or how sophisticated our technology becomes. The
decisive change is the one that occurs with you and me as
individuals. There is something greater than YOU. It's US.
The day every American takes personal responsibility for this
country and the world we live in is the beginning of the end
to all of our problems.
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So, National service is "the most important public issue for the
United States", and its implementation will make
"solutions to all of our other problems possible",
by forcing you to make a "decisive change" which will
lead you to realize your relative insignificance as you are pushed
into "selfless" service for "something greater
than YOU". The day that every American citizen has virtually
become enslaved to its government will be "the beginning of the
end to all of our problems."
I repeat my call for everyone who wishes to preserve their freedom,
to fight this trend now in whatever way you can.
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