The H.R. 5741 bill - If passed, it basically takes away your freedom of choice. It is also referred to as "the slavery bill" by people who oppose it. After reading what the bill is about, it is understandable how it got this nick name. This bill will allow the president to require 2 years of compulsory service from all US citizens between ages 18 and 42. It is ironic that the people supporting and pushing this bill are all well over this age limit.
This new legislation will mandate forced labor for your country for two years. Nearly every American between these ages will have to come to work if called upon, according to the TPI News. This means if the armed services are looking for some type of specialist and this is what you do, you may be mandated to serve two years providing them with your expertise. It doesn't stop there, according to The Daily Contributor, what ever the president needs you to do, you can be called in to do it.
NY Democrat Charles Rangel presented this on July 15th and this bill is currently in debate in the House Committee on Armed Services, which is chaired by Representative Ike Skelton. This bill has no co-sponsor as of yet.
There goes the land of the free. If this bill does pass, there will be people moving to Canada. This is almost comical, if it were not a serious bill being debated today. We live in a country that a bill like this should not even be mentioned to the law makers, never mind that now they are spending tax money debating this. Lets hope this bill lands on the floor in little pieces right out of the starting gate.
The bill is worded this way:
"To require all persons in the United States between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform national service, either as a member of the uniformed services or in civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, to authorize the induction of persons in the uniformed services during wartime to meet end-strength requirements of the uniformed services, and for other purposes." As posted in Congress. read the rest of the bill here: Universal National Service Act
References: The Daily Contributor, Federal Observer
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Roz, I failed to notice anywhere your mention of civil disobedience as an appropriate response to the passing of this legislation.
Call it the slavery bill all you want. The slaves are the ones who continue to blindly follow their masters' mandates.
But if the people like yourself who try to warn others of words on paper like H.R. 5741 don't begin calling for peaceful non-cooperation, the slaves will comply.
It's time for more than warnings. The slaves need direction. They need to be encouraged to stop complying.
You have a small voice, but people will hear you more than they hear me. It's time to start challenging government legitimacy, and that can't happen by voting them out.
More terrified teabagger stuff. Congress could pass a bill saying "Have a nice day" and you teabaggers would start screaming it's about tyranny and slavery. Chill out, you extremist wackjobs. You're hurting Republicans around the country.
It's basically the re-introduction of the draft. Which I would bet a million dollars that you wouldn't have said jack about if this was under Bush. In fact I bet you'd applaud it and say anyone against it was a traitor. Oh wait they did, in 2003, 2006, 2007, and now 2010.
Actually if i remember correctly Rangle tried to push this thru during the Bush presidency and Bush stopped it in its tracks
Yet another illiterate writing inflammatory drivel about a bill she clearly hasn't read or comprehended. I'm not sure how "This means if the armed services are looking for some type of specialist and this is what you do, you may be mandated to serve two years providing them with your expertise" when the bill clearly states that it will be enacted through random selection at times of declared war, declared national emergency, or congressionally sanctioned military action. In other words, it's the draft. But with chicks.
Let them pass the bill. 80% of the population believes the government does not represent their interests and routinely deceives them. This will simply be the rallying cry around which the empire falls
Of course this is a terrible bill, and it will never get passed. Our government is full of criminals and tyrants. Why would we want to serve them? Why should be subject to whatever service they see fit for us to do? Congress thought invading was good for the country. How would you like to end up their, or Afganistan, or anywhere Congress sees fit. Congress serves the people, not the other way around. This bill is a bunch of bull
This is commonly done in Israel!
This is undeniably a violation of the 13th Amendment. Undeniably.
"Neither SLAVERY nor INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
It is plain as day. Rangel and Rahm should be arrested and charged with high treason against the United States and its laws. Please Obama... try it! I dare you! This will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Good, go to Israel!
A lunatic idea. Maybe this works in Israel and some European countries, and I'll chalk that up to cultural relativism - but we in the US value our individual liberties, and this bill spits in the face of that. If I lived in Rangel's district, I'd be shopping around for a new congressman.
I wouldn't worry about this just now. It's in committee and has no co-sponsors, it's not going anywhere. Congress would lose their jobs if this got even close to passing.
Read the whole bill. This will require anyone who resides in the US to be required to serve. Not only does this mean illegal immigrants, but foreign dignitaries, and employees of embassies will be required to serve too.
Our government run educational system has done a fine job of inverting, in the minds of many citizens, the relationship between the individual and their government. Our Declaration of Independence clearly spell out that it is "self-evident" that each sovereign individual possesses "unalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness". These are inherent rights which we possess as part of our human nature, and are not some gift bestowed upon us by a benevolent state. The Declaration continues: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed". Individuals are not duty-bound to serve the state; just the opposite! Government is created for one very explicit purpose, which is to serve the need to protect those rights possessed by every individual member of society -- and nothing more. Period!
When some government bureaucrat proposes to force you, me, or anyone else, against our res
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respective voluntary wills, to serve the government's interests under direction of some state administrator, whether that be for an hour, a day, two years, or a lifetime, this is nothing less than slavery, and no amount of weasel words or Orwellian doublespeak will alter or hide this simple fact.
If you value your life and the freedom to decide how you wish to live it, then you should be alarmed that this bill is even being discussed in the halls of Congress by a body of elite members who have made it clear that they intend to be the masters, ruling over us and directing every aspect and decision affecting our lives. Do not wait until it is too late to fight back against this tyranny. Rise up today in protest over this abomination and work to insure that it never sees the light of day.
For a full take on this bill, see my article at: go-galt.org/Galt_Pledge/JG_Current.html
In liberty,
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C. Jeffery Small
The draft is not voluntary either, so I guess I don't get the argument that that is somehow servitude. The portion of the proposed law you cite talks about civilian service also, not just uniformed service. Military service and service to one's country was once taken for granted as a natural part of good citizenship, and Americans of all classes served during wartime. Not anymore. During the 1950's, half of the graduating classes from Harvard and Princeton joined the military, today less than one percent do. The legacy of Vietnam still haunts us and our policies, and the all volunteer army is one of these legacies. Everyone supports the soldiers and the military, as long as it is someone else's son or daughter who is serving. We live in a society where increasingly our leadership don't have direct knowledge of what military service means or its costs in human terms. The can and has led to bad decisions. The bottom line is that we as a country are all in this together and all should be
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