Obama Signs GIVE Act (Hitler Youth, Brownshirts) Into Law

It’s done. Obama signed the bill, stating, “”It creates opportunities to serve for students, seniors and everyone in between.  And it is just the beginning of a sustained, collaborative and focused effort to involve our greatest resource — our citizens — in the work of remaking this nation.”

Make no mistake, the remaking of this nation is into that of communism.  This is government as the main employer of its citizens, employing people to do whatever it sees fit.  Here are excerpts from the bill itself for you to draw your own conclusions from:

Section 4.b; Items 4, 5, 6, & 7:

(4)Whether existing databases are effective in matching community needs to would-be volunteers and service providers.

(5) The effect on the Nation, on those who serve, and on the families of those who serve, if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service.

(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.

(7) The need for a public service academy, a 4-year institution that offers a federally funded undergraduate education with a focus on training future public sector leaders.

Can the System Reset Itself?

Lew Rockwell, an author and economist whom I trust very much, quite depressingly writes that our government is on a fast track for self-destruction.  From the article:

The conclusion, which I pose as a theorem of political dynamics, is that government based on coercion cannot be tamed. Coercive governments can and do commit suicide.

The article mirrors my own thoughts that there’s no reasonable way to save this government, not without a majority of Ron Paul type figures who have made a career out of rejecting grasps for power.  I don’t see that kind of mentality in the major Republicans such as Mitt Romney nor even my semi-hero Mark Sanford, even though both have brought about various types of reforms.  Reform is just a charade; the system needs to be reset, but this is political suicide for an incumbent of any affiliation.  Politicians simply don’t have the courage to trigger a reset button and kill the bankrupt entitlement programs that voters have come to rely on.  And yet that’s the only way for the system to right its mistakes and prevent a financial collapse or ensuing poverty.

Even if a few exceptional political figures were elected to office, a majority would be impossible.  Look at how honest the Republicans got once they were the minority.  As soon as a majority rallies support for anything in Congress, honesty goes out the window, and self-serving policies creep up in their place.  Even Reagan increased the size of government some, and Bush increased it tremendously by any measure expect a comparison to Obama.  Very few principled politicians get into office when campaigning according to polling statistics wins favor among voters so much easier, and even fewer politicians address problems when hiding and postponing them is much less controversial.

My uncertainty lies in how the people will respond when the system implodes.  Given that voters swung towards socialist policies when the economy started to sink during the last presidential election, it’ll take a lot of work to convince the American public not to vote differently in the next election, but to instead ignore the establishment altogether.  I think pushing for one political party over another is starting to miss the point- the modern conservative should campaign others to believe in self-reliance.  The only way to reset the system isn’t through voting, it will be through refusal to submit to government programs and taxation.  My hope is that this can be achieved with civil disobedience rather than violence, but it’s one or the other.

Our founding fathers refused to pay taxes.  While this would be a very appropriate response in current times, our government has the masses controlled in this regard.  You send in a 1040 not to write a check, but to get a refund.  A protest of taxes would have to come from corporations on behalf of the people, which are now under control of tax-cheats in higher power (Geithner) or worse, the newly formed FSB.  In taxation, health insurance, and even retirement planning, the government has successfully removed the individual from the equation so that in the event of a rebellion, there are drastically fewer entities the government need go after.

So, perhaps even civil disobedience can be ruled out as a viable way of resetting the system.  I’m open to ideas, but the only choices I see are fight, flight, or acceptance.  For either of those first two options, we should be campaigning not on behalf of any politician, but for the power of and reliance on one’s self.  As has been pointed out so many times, it all starts with the individuals who would not give up their liberty nor yield to those who would take it.

The implosion of government caused the Soviet Union to break up faster than anyone expected.  But in a society historically based in capitalism, could our government collapse equally quickly in favor of different forms of socialism?

Congress Creates Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth) Program

The GIVE act was quietly passed by both the House and Senate, amongst a string of diversions towards “evil” CEO’s.  The summary by OpenCongress.org reads,

The Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act would dramatically increase funding for AmeriCorps and other volunteer programs, including those for seniors and veterans. It also establishes a goal of expanding from 75,000 government-supported volunteers to 250,000, and would increase education funding and establish a summer service program for students, paying $500 (which would be applied to college costs) to high-school and middle-school student who participate.

That sounds very politically correct.  But from the actual bill:

Sec.6104, (b)(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 requirement to overcome civic challenges and strengthen social fabric?  So this clause permits mandatory camps for the purpose of getting America’s youth to pledge their loyalty to government or their chosen organizations. Mandatory service directly violates the 13th amendment, which outlaws such involuntary servitude.  Even scarier is the blatant conflict of interest from government taught social or civic issues.  Expansion of government requires the forfeit of individual liberties, which government only exists to protect!

Hitler knew the power of sculpting young minds, too.  He used these camps to instill beliefs of antisemitism, for the purpose of motivating soldiers to fight for the Third Reich.  Hitler’s youth camps mirrored the structure of his Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts), which is significant, because the structure of this law suggests that Obama may be looking for his modern-day Brownshirts to run these youth camps.  Again, from the GIVE act:

Sec.111, (b)(1)(A) providing training for teachers, supervisors, personal from community-based agencies (particularly with regard to the RECRUITMENT, UTILIZATION, AND MANAGEMENT OF PARTICIPANTS), and trainers, to be conducted by qualified individuals or organizations that have experience in service-learning.

This sounds innocent enough, but as was found in this report, an ammendment to restrict such qualified organizations to ones not actively involved in political advancement was shot down.

The U.S. Senate killed an amendment Thursday offered by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., that would have prohibited federal volunteer funds from going to the community group ACORN and its affiliates.

Vitter singled out the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a nationwide community organization of low- and moderate-income people. He laid emphasis on the fact that group members have been arrested for fraudulent voter registration.

Vitter contended that no charitable group with a political arm should receive the volunteer funding. “At the heart of this debate is whether this new federal bureaucracy would, in effect, politicize charitable activity around the country, which we certainly do not want,” Vitter said.

The bill was not so kind to the Boy Scouts of America, as a clause banning religiously motivated groups was included.  Make no mistake, this means that groups like ACORN, LaRaza, LULAC, et al, will be in your child’s school teaching their methods of “service-learning”.  These are the same organizations that are use mob-rule scare tactics against anyone who denounces their leader, Obama.  Not only that, but these organizations will be paid for doing it.  The bill allocates $5.7 billion tax dollars to help finance such these teachings, which covers 80% of the funding initially, 50% for the next three years, and the rest comes from you directly.

So yes, parents could be required to pay for their children to go to camps or classes run by politically motivated groups who use mob tactics to denounce or scare opponents of Der Fuhrer the president.  There is even a provision in the bill for uniforms.

The Founding Fathers of this country created the 10th ammendment to prevent government from expanding its power beyond its enumerated powers, none of which permit programs of this sort.  Even those who naively believe in good government must wonder, why legalize the opportunity for authoritarian control over the country’s youth?

Obama’s Sturmabteilung (Brownshirts)

Crucial to Hitler’s rise to power in the 1920′s and 1930′s were his most militant, activist supporters, called the Sturmabteilung (translated: Assault detachment, but often called Brownshirts for the color of their uniforms).  These men brutalized anyone who did not support Hitler, including rival politicians, press, and voters.

Obama has found mob-rule the same way.  His political machine has been creating hatred for the social class he blames for America’s economic woes, and a class of debout Obama supporters has begun using scare tactics to create reprecussions for those Obama speaks against.  Here is his blame of AIG for fleecing Americans:

This is a corporation that finds itself in financial distress due to recklessness and greed. Under these circumstances, it’s hard to understand how derivative traders at <AIG> warranted any bonuses, much less $165 million in extra pay. I mean, how do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?

Obama is attacking AIG for completing its legal contracts that were very specifically permitted by the law Congress itself passed.  These payouts represent one-tenth of one percent of the stimulus money AIG received, of which Congress has been unable to track, and the entire concept of which was not authorized by the Constitution.  To call the attacks on these executives a distraction from the real issue of a mismanaged grab at authoritarian power is an understatment.  But these thoughts would never occur to Obama’s loyal mob of brownshirts who want to crush anyone Obama paints as opposition.

How bad is it?  Bus tours are now visiting the homes of AIG executives.  What purpose could this serve other than to show angry mobs how to instill fear in- or worse, attack- the executives?

The Connecticut Working Families Party this weekend has organized a bus store that will make stops at Wilton, Connecticut, AIG office as well as the security-patrolled homes of AIG execs who are fearing for their lives.

Let’s be clear: the executives have not been accused of any crime.  None.  Obama doesn’t like them, and that’s it.  Yet, angry mobs are already forming outside AIG’s corporate buidings to crush the upper-class workers without any change for due-process.

This happened as Congress demanded AIG executives return their bonus money, or else Barney Frank would release the list of executives who received money to the public.  Again, this is pure mob rule without any due process of law.  The danger of such chaos is that it knows no bounds- it’s AIG, then GM- who will be next?  The precedent this sets is incredibly dangerous.

Worth reading is Jake DeSantis’ resignation letter to AIG, part of which follows:

I take this action after 11 years of dedicated, honorable service to A.I.G. I can no longer effectively perform my duties in this dysfunctional environment, nor am I being paid to do so. Like you, I was asked to work for an annual salary of $1, and I agreed out of a sense of duty to the company and to the public officials who have come to its aid. Having now been let down by both, I can no longer justify spending 10, 12, 14 hours a day away from my family for the benefit of those who have let me down.

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The only real motivation that anyone at A.I.G.-F.P. now has is fear. Mr. Cuomo has threatened to “name and shame,” and his counterpart in Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, has made similar threats – even though attorneys general are supposed to stand for due process, to conduct trials in courts and not the press.

There you have it- rule by fear.  Coercion by fear.  No due process under law, for in fact Jake DeSantis broke no law.  Obama has succeeded in recreating and leading a new incarnation of Hitler’s Brownshirts.