Gov't To Force Us To "GIVE" [More]The “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act”...
Good grief--could the acronyms get more cheesy?
Here's the bill, presented by Carolyn "Barrel Shroud" McCarthy and the usual gang of useful collectivist idiots.
Whenever I try to slog through the text of these things, I go into full-blown glazed-eyes ADD mode. I may as well be trying to read Sanskrit. Anyone with the type of mind that can grok legalese without wondering whether it's "across the highway" or "down the street," please translate this, because I have a few questions:
Could "volunteer community service" credit be received for young people engaging in firearms and paramilitary training activities? You know, assuming their U.S. Code-recognized militia duties for the security of a free state? And could a lawsuit be an effective means of overturning ideological discrimination if the government says "No"?
I know the preferred course is to refuse to participate, but just as a precursor bit of monkeywrenching, wouldn't it be nice to smash these Marxists over the head with their own damn chair? You know, CUM ULLA SELLA IN PUGNO TABERNA...
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Try this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1388&tab=summary
It's a little better.
Also...
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... though I still feel like I don't understand the whole of this bill.
What goes on is groups that are like ACORN are feed huge amounts of taxpayer money. What the groups do is hire out of college non-white kids with bullshit liberal arts degrees as employees. These liberal kids go out and about to brainwash poor citizens with Marxist propaganda. This is the honest truth, I would not lie to you guys.
ReplyDeleteThis is social engineering to make people dependent on government and have them willing to give up their Constitutional right and God giving freedoms for a nanny government.
There's one thing that will become of this that sounds harsh but this government being controlled by the international bankers have been too harsh as it is. These dumb down and useful idiots will starve once the economy is crashed and the buck is destroyed. In effect they have willing set the foundation for themselves to take themselves out of the gene pool.
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I hope so. I'm also willing to do whatever I can to further this outcome...
The tree of liberty may survive without it, but it will grow faster with a little fertilizer.
In answer to your questions:
ReplyDelete(1) Could "volunteer community service" credit be received . . . (2) And could a lawsuit be an effective means of overturning ideological discrimination if the government says "No"?
My opinion summary: This act seems mostly like a feel-good make-work program designed to redistribute wealth to underprivileged, with special consideration explicitly given to black, hispanic, and other minority populations. SEC. 1202 (c). It appears it is designed to disadvantage angry white guys in the application process. Katrina and Rita affected areas are also specifically mentioned. It also seems specifically targeted at a culture of child indoctrination into the socialist mindset.
(1) Technically speaking - yes. Practically speaking - probably not. The act gives authority to a Corporation's Board and CEO to define the criteria for a "community-based organization". The act also allows for emergency and disaster preparedness, relief, and recovery participation and meeting unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs. So marksmanship and preparedness education might be approve-able, but given the tone of the act, I think a potential applicant would be wasting their time.
(2) Technically speaking - yes, the government can be sued. Most likely it would have to be a racial discrimination suit. Ideological discrimination is not within my understanding of available causes of action, but a more crafty lawyer could probably come up with something. I would rather see this act voided as beyond federal authority granted by the constitution - but that never stopped the fed before. So practically speaking, anyone looking to challenge this act would be looking at a ton of potentially wasted time and money.
Some nuggets from the act:
SEC. 1101. PURPOSES
(a) (9) recognize and increase the impact of . . . nonprofit community organizations in addressing national and local challenges;
(13) assist in coordinating and strengthening . . . service opportunities, including opportunities for participation in emergency and disaster preparedness, relief, and recovery;
SEC. 1102. DEFINITIONS.
(12) COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATION- The term ‘community-based organization’ means a public or private nonprofit organization that--
(A) has experience with meeting unmet human, educational, environmental, or public safety needs; and
(B) meets other such criteria as the Chief Executive Officer may establish.
(27) QUALIFIED ORGANIZATION- The term ‘qualified organization’ means a public or private nonprofit organization with experience working with school-age youth that meets such criteria as the Chief Executive Officer may establish.
SEC. 1203. INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH.
SEC. 120. INNOVATIVE DEMONSTRATION SERVICE-LEARNING PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH.
c) Authorized Activities- Funds under this part may be used to--
(3) involve students in service-learning projects in emergency and disaster preparedness;
(7) conduct innovative and creative activities as described in section 111(b); WETF that means - section 111(b) does not define "innovative and creative activities"
SEC. 1302. REQUIRED AND ELIGIBLE NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMS.
SEC. 122. NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMS ELIGIBLE FOR PROGRAM ASSISTANCE.
(e) Qualification Criteria To Determine Eligibility-
(1) ESTABLISHMENT BY CORPORATION- The Corporation shall establish qualification criteria . . . for the purpose of determining whether a particular national service program should be considered to be a national service program eligible to receive assistance or approved national service positions under this subtitle.
SEC. 1202. HIGHER EDUCATION PROVISIONS AND CAMPUSES OF SERVICE.
(c) Special Consideration- To the extent practicable, the Corporation shall give special consideration to applications submitted by predominantly Black institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and community colleges serving predominantly minority populations.
SEC. 1841. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
SEC. 501. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) Title I-
(2) (B) PRIORITY- Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, in obligating the amounts made available pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in subparagraph (C), priority shall be given to programs carried out in areas for which the President has declared the existence of a major disaster, in accordance with section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170), as a consequence of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Something I found interesting while attempting to make some sense of the Act.
ReplyDeleteSEC. 1710. STUDY TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A CENTRALIZED ELECTRONIC CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION SYSTEM.
(a) Study- The Corporation for National and Community Service shall conduct a study to determine the effectiveness of a centralized electronic citizenship verification system which would allow the Corporation to share employment eligibility information with the Department of Education in order to reduce administrative burden and lower costs for member programs.
Looks like the national ID proposal is still alive and well.
If I read this correctly, any action we can force at penalty of death and destruction on our political opponents, we can now justify as voluntary?
ReplyDeleteBoy! That sure makes our job easier, doesn't it. I mean with all those people volunteering and all.
The bill seems to be saying "Dragoon your employees, former employees, students, into "volunteer" service, or we'll take away those federal grants (which are, after all, dribbling back to The People a tiny fraction of the money they're FORCED to send to Washington).
ReplyDeleteSchools in my state already have a mandatory volunteerism requirement for graduation. Fortunately FOR THE SYSTEM it involves a brief community service experience of a day or a week -- not a "summer of service" -- which many good kids would participate in anyway. I don't have any school-age children, but I write occasionally to object anyway.
This bill, though, is a big reminder that we are "animate capital." Chattel, cattle, merely means to a government end.
We should "give back," undoubtedly doing it in a "green" environmentally friendly non-global-warming way.
The government gives us -- CAN give us -- NOTHING. It's OUR MONEY.