Bill quietly becomes law that forbids opposition! (UPDATE)

April 24, 12:39 AMColumbia Conservative ExaminerAnthony G. Martin

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While the Obama administration made sure that the country's attention was sufficiently consumed by charges of 'torture' leveled against former Bush administration officials, a bill was quietly signed into law that forbids any opposition to it.

This bill also mandates youth volunteerism in national service, complete with indoctrination sessions in public schools that prepare students for 'volunteerism.'  The wearing of uniforms is also mandated.

Democrats in Congress, under far-Left sponsors Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and George Miller (D-CA), voted to approve the measure known as G.I.V.E.(Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education).  And Barack Obama quietly signed the bill into law on Tuesday of this week, all without fanfare.

On NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN, nary a word.  In the New York Times, nothing, zilch, nada.

All of the information on this ominous piece of legislation, which is now the law of the land, can be found here, along with the complete text of the bill, which is now known as 'The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.'

Here are a few excerpts from the bill, as provided by Minneapolis Conservative Examiner Erin Haust:

• expand and strengthen service-learning programs through year-round opportunities, including during the summer months, to improve the education of children and youth and to maximize the benefits of national and community service, in order to renew the ethic of civic responsibility and the spirit of community to children and youth throughout the United States
• Civilian Community Corps shall be called the “National Civilian Community Corps”
• the Director determines appropriate “Uniforms”
• From the Misc. section, #6104: (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.

Mandatory service?  Uniforms?  Isn't that what Hitler did with the youth of Germany?

Indeed, he did.

But perhaps the most disturbing part of the bill is a provision that would prevent those who are opposed to the new law from protesting, organizing protests, or otherwise expressing open opposition to it!

Once again, Erin Haust reports:

The final bill does include a provision whereby those opposed to the legislation are prohibited from protesting, lobbying or organizing petitions against it.

It is appalling, not to mention frightening, that such a flagrant attack on the liberties of the citizens was slipped into law, unnoticed and unreported, before Americans could even be given a chance to express their outrage over such an oppressive breach of the Bill of Rights.

This travesty is now the law of the land, a done deal, compliments of a President and a Congress who obviously don't give a flying flip about the rights of the citizens or the U.S. Constitution.

UPDATE!  I went to the Thomas website and downloaded a copy of this bill from top to bottom so I could examine it for myself.  Indeed, as some of you have indicated, the provision originally presented as an amendment forbidding opposition was included in the final text as a directive for employees of organizations participating in this program, forbidding them from engaging in partisan political activity while on the job.  I apologize for the error.

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