HR 1388 National Service Bill Passed Senate
The H.R. 1388 Bill which passed the house has now officially passed the Senate by a 74-14 vote! What scares me is that only 14 republicans voted against the bill.
From Roll Call: (may have to subsribe to see article)
The Senate voted 74-14 to cut off debate and proceed on a national service bill that reauthorizes the AmeriCorps program and sanctions $5 billion over five years to add volunteers to targeted service areas.
Ticking off the names of inspiring public servants such as retired Gen. Colin Powell and Special Olympics founder Eunice Shriver, lawmakers said the measure would capture a newly inspired public that is hungry to serve in local communities.
“We can really be able to embark upon a major initiative to be able to meet the compelling needs of our society,” Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said just before the floor vote. “Its passage is important now when so many communities are struggling with so many pressing problems, and so many people want to serve.”
The bill is co-sponsored by Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chairman Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), political polar opposites who have forged a close working relationship over their years of service together in the Senate. The bill creates five service corps targeting health care, education, energy veterans and the poor, as well as a Congressional commission on civil service.
The House overwhelmingly approved a similar bill last week, 321-105. A small number of Republican critics decried the legislation as a costly measure to spark service, which private groups perform without the encouragement of government.
The Senate will continue debate on the measure Tuesday, with a vote on final passage to follow at some point this week.
President Barack Obama called on lawmakers to approve the measure during his February address to a joint session of Congress, saying it would “encourage a renewed spirit of national service for this and future generations.”
Please see the original post on what H.R. 1388 entails and take a look at the republicans who voted for it below (please also take a look at the 11 senators that did not vote – just as bad as voting yea IMO):
–YEAs (23)–
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Wicker (R-MS)
| Not Voting – 11 | ||
| Begich (D-AK) Boxer (D-CA) Cornyn (R-TX) Enzi (R-WY) |
Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Landrieu (D-LA) Martinez (R-FL) |
Nelson (D-FL) Pryor (D-AR) Vitter (R-LA) |
| NAYs —14 | ||
| Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Coburn (R-OK) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) |
Ensign (R-NV) Inhofe (R-OK) Kyl (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) |
Roberts (R-KS) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Thune (R-SD) |
I would like to know if this is going to be required of all high school or middle school students at some point.
Facebook And Co ‘Face Big Brother Monitoring’
Millions of Britons who use social networking websites such as Facebook could have details of everyone they correspond with monitored by the Government.
Under the proposals, the Home Office is considering making the sites keep data about their users’ movements.
These details may then be saved on a “Big Brother” database.
The Home Office said the idea was to tackle criminals and terrorists who might use the websites to communicate.
But it stressed the Government was not seeking the power to examine the content of messages sent via the sites.
However, civil liberties campaigners have called the proposals a “snooper’s charter”.
Many people in Britain use social networking sites, like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo to keep in touch with their friends.
The Government move follows plans to store information about every telephone call, email, and internet visit made by anyone in the UK on a central database.
Details were disclosed by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker earlier this month at a Commons committee to examine draft EU directives.
He said the Government was considering acting on social networking sites because they were not covered by the latest proposals from Brussels.
“Social networking sites, such as MySpace or Bebo, are not covered by the directive,” he said.
“That is one reason why the Government are looking at what we should do about the intercept modernisation programme because there are certain aspects of communications which are not covered by the directive.”
He added the Government’s intercept modernisation programme proposals may be extended to include “the retention of data on Facebook, Bebo, MySpace and
all other similar sites”.
Mr Coaker acknowledged the plan would raise fresh concerns about the right to privacy.
“I accept that this is an extremely difficult area. The interface between retaining data, private security and all such issues of privacy is extremely important,” he said.
A Home Office spokesman stressed the Government was not seeking the power to examine the content of messages sent via the sites.
He said: “We have been clear that communications revolution has been rapid in this country and the way in which we collect communications data needs to change so that law enforcement agencies can maintain their ability to tackle terrorism and gather evidence.”
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Technology/Users-Of-Facebook-MySpace-And-Other-Social-Networking-Sites-May-Have-Details-Of-Contacts-Monitored/Article/200903415248457
For the U.S as well:
Senate Rubber Stamps National Enslavement Bill
Legislation passes to create multi-million civilian “army” in line with Obama’s compulsory national service agenda.
The Senate last night rubber stamped a nightmare domestic draft bill that legislates mandatory national service and creates an “army” of at least 7 million civilian enforcers working at the the behest of the government, while also containing language that threatens to ban free speech and the right to protest.
Last week, we reported on the House passage of the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the G.I.V.E. Act, which was carried with a 321-105 margin vote.
A passage contained in section 6104 of the original House version entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed.” This language has been dropped from the version passed by the Senate.
However, Section 120 of the bill discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.” This part remains in the version passed by the Senate.
Roles which will be staffed by members of the programs, labeled “Required National Service,” include “criminal justice,” “environmental stewardship,” and “public safety”.
The bill was rubber stamped by the Senate last night in a 74 to 14 vote, a move that creates “An army dispersed to help with education, health services and the environment, (which) would vastly enlarge the notion of “community organizing,” and allow, as Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, said tonight, for about 7 million people to be engaged in such work,” reports the New York Times.
References to the program as the creation of a civilian “army” have dominated mainstream news coverage of the legislation.
7 million members of this civilian “army” equates to about one member for every 50 Americans, a similar figure to the number of East Germans who collaborated with the Stasi and informed on their own citizens during the cold war.
http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/35819
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http://www.4hurtingchristians.com/the_global_financial_and_economic_crisis_lead_to_one_world_government.html
How could Americans control Obama’s “Civilian National Security Forces?”
It has not been qualified what Obama meant when he stated in July 2008: “We cannot continue to rely on our military to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”
Brief Historical note: Germany under Hitler during hard economic times set up volunteer “Civilian National Security Patrols” to help Citizens and to protect the Homeland. After being established, the volunteers became a neighborhood Political Enforcement and Snitch Arm” of the Nazi Government. How would U.S. local police interact with Obama’s “civilian national security force?” Would Obama’s volunteers have access to U.S. Citizens’ private records? Could Constitutional rights including the Fourth Amendment be discarded to allow the “community volunteers” illegal search and seizure of Americans? Would Obama’s “Volunteer Civilian National Security Force” be allowed to handle neighborhood informants and share in forfeited assets confiscated from Americans like regular police?
Could U.S. private mercenary companies now contracted by Government, work with Obama’s “Civilian National Security Forces” in U.S. Cities?
It is not manditory. The bill just provides more money to increase the support from 75,000 members to 250,000 members by 2014. It is more about finacial support for a bill that has been around since 1990. I have yet to find anything mentioning it to be manditory.