04-08-2010
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Subject: Will the Conservatives Defend your Rights?
Don't Count On It.
Leading the way for the rest of the unfree world, today, the UK's
Telegraph reports that
Conservatives
plan civilian 'national service' scheme. That's right, not
wanting to allow Gordon Brown and the democratic socialist Labor party
to get the glory by getting there first, David Cameron and the British
Conservatives are "Sowing
The Seeds of the Big Society" by proposing plans for a
National Citizen Service, where 16 year old children will be
offered:
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"two-month summer social action activities such as looking
after the elderly as a cure for the 'national scandal of
all this wasted promise'.
He originally proposed a compulsory scheme until voluntary
sector bosses persuaded him that would not work - but will
pledge to get all teenagers involved 'over time'.
Money for the first two years of the programme ... will come
from the Government's "community cohesion programme".
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So, it was clear that the desire to make this proposal mandatory on
all youth would not immediately fly, but once the program is in place,
then the Conservatives will "get all teenagers involved over
time" which is Orwellian doublespeak for "they will be forced
to participate".
Sound familiar? It should. This is similar to what is happening in
this country, where, through the Corporation for National and
Community Service, the United We Serve website, and programs
like "Service-Learning", Barack Obama is slowly transforming
what is initially called "voluntarism" into a mandatory requirement,
creating a youth army indoctrinated in the fundamental idea that we
all owe a duty to the state, which the state has the right to collect
upon as, and when it deems appropriate.
And don't think that the conservative Republicans are really any
different from their British counterparts. The Republicans have been
playing a game of me-tooism, dancing to the Democrats
ideological themes for decades, simply arguing about which nuts
and sugar coating to sprinkle on the statist policies of an ever
expanding government intrusion into the economy, the personal lives,
and decisions of every citizen. Both Bush Jr. and Sr., along with many
other entrenched Republicans, were strong advocates for promoting a
citizen's duty to the state through government funded "volunteerism"
programs, and it was by way of that support that we have arrived at
this point. This species of Republican would have no problem with
mandatory labor requirements being imposed upon every citizen, so
do not look to them to rescue you from this fate.
In the coming elections it is critical that every candidate be vetted
on the issue of their actual commitment to personal liberty and
individual rights for every citizen. And not just on what they
say is their position, but on the specific action that they
intend to take in order to uphold these principles. If we fail to
toss out the old guard Democrats and Republicans and replace them
with an entirely new breed of politician, dedicated to strictly
upholding the original intent of the U.S. Constitution, then there
will no longer be any hope for freedom left in America.
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