Wednesday November 12, 2008 at 9:47

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“It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service… Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They’ll be asked to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state”

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Rahm Emanuel, Barak Obama’s Chief of Staff

This is incredibly frightening and absurd. I guess Rahm enjoyed his time in the Israeli Defense Forces so much that he thought slavery/indoctrination would work well in America too.

(via tumbledore)

My response to this? No, thank you.

(via robot-heart)

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    Just a quick note about the “USA Patriot Act”. It’s an acronym for: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing...
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    Yeah. Pretty much.
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    From “The Plan” by...bigger part of me wants this to be the natural inclination of...
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    freedom scares me....defining trait of americans is that they’re unbelievably proud of...
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    I think people tend to flip out about these things as a kneejerk reaction. Even the community service portion is...
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    there some changes from the passage as quoted (like “should” instead of the creepy “will”), but the added context makes...
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    The thing I don’t like about this is that it’s a slippery slope from this type of program to mandatory military service,...
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    When the US government spent 500 billion dollars to bail out the capitalist system it was called socialist. That was...
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    screw shit up, Rahm. Your ministration is supposed to be about granting civil liberties, not forcing us into battalions....
  37. tumbledore reblogged this from monkeytypist and added:
    great point and a great response. I don’t believe people can be relied upon...“choose”...
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    hahanotfunny) Hey, let’s look at...full length of this quote, including
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    American kids are...often unmotivated to be contributing members of society. They should...
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  67. robot-heart reblogged this from tumbledore and added:
    incredibly frightening and absurd....slavery/indoctrination
  68. bthny reblogged this from tumbledore and added:
    incredibly frightening and absurd....slavery/indoctrination
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