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According to WorldNetDaily, the U.S. House of Representatives last week approved H.R. 1388, a House Resolution to set up a new “volunteer corps” and consider whether “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people” should be developed.

Good luck finding a FAIR plan that mandates service. It is my opinion that any “fair” plan that requires service (and is therefore based on coercion) could never exist.

Says WorldNetDaily:

“The legislation also refers to ‘uniforms’ that would be worn by the ‘volunteers’ and the ‘need’ for a ‘public service academy, a 4-year institution’ to ‘focus on training future public sector leaders’. The training, apparently, would occur at campuses.”

“The vote came on H.R. 1388, which reauthorizes through 2014 the National and Community Service Act of 1990 and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, acts that originally, among other programs, funded the AmeriCorps and the National Senior Service Corps.”

“Many, however, are raising concerns that the program, which is intended to include 250,000 ‘volunteers,’ is the beginning of what President Obama called his ‘National Civilian Security Force’ in a a speech last year in which he urged creating an organization as big and well-funded as the U.S. military. He has declined since then to elaborate. The new bill specifically references the possibilities ‘if all individuals in the United States were expected to perform national service or were required to perform a certain amount of national service’.”

According to a report by Canada Free Press, the “volunteerism that kept America running since the days of its founding” would be “wiped out with the stroke of a pen.”

The bill was sponsored by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and was approved in the House by a vote of 321 to 105. As I reported in December, PoliticalLore.com has documented that the original wording of President Obama’s website Change.gov says: “Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.”

Involuntary servitude is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person’s will to benefit another, under some form of coercion. The Thirteenth Amendment makes it illegal, except as punishment for a crime.

Will Obama get away with his plan to draft Americans into the ranks of community service?

The “Republicans” who supported this resolution included:

Yea AL-6 Bachus, Spencer [R]
Yea AK-0 Young, Donald [R]
Yea CA-24 Gallegly, Elton [R]
Yea CA-25 McKeon, Howard [R]
Yea CA-41 Lewis, Jerry [R]
Yea CA-44 Calvert, Ken [R]
Yea CA-45 Bono Mack, Mary [R]
Yea CA-50 Bilbray, Brian [R]
Yea DE-0 Castle, Michael [R]
Yea FL-4 Crenshaw, Ander [R]
Yea FL-5 Brown-Waite, Virginia [R]
Yea FL-9 Bilirakis, Gus [R]
Yea FL-10 Young, C. W. [R]
Yea FL-12 Putnam, Adam [R]
Yea FL-13 Buchanan, Vern [R]
Yea FL-16 Rooney, Thomas [R]
Yea FL-18 Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana [R]
Yea FL-21 Diaz-Balart, Lincoln [R]
Yea FL-25 Diaz-Balart, Mario [R]
Yea ID-2 Simpson, Michael [R]
Yea IL-10 Kirk, Mark [R]
Yea IL-13 Biggert, Judy [R]
Yea IL-18 Schock, Aaron [R]
Yea IL-19 Shimkus, John [R]
Yea IN-3 Souder, Mark [R]
Yea IA-4 Latham, Thomas [R]
Yea KY-2 Guthrie, Brett [R]
Yea KY-5 Rogers, Harold [R]
Yea LA-2 Cao, Anh [R]
Yea LA-6 Cassidy, Bill [R]
Yea MI-3 Ehlers, Vernon [R]
Yea MI-4 Camp, David [R]
Yea MI-6 Upton, Frederick [R]
Yea MI-8 Rogers, Michael [R]
Yea MI-10 Miller, Candice [R]
Yea MI-11 McCotter, Thaddeus [R]
Yea MN-3 Paulsen, Erik [R]
Yea MO-8 Emerson, Jo Ann [R]
Yea MT-0 Rehberg, Dennis [R]
Yea NE-1 Fortenberry, Jeffrey [R]
Yea NE-2 Terry, Lee [R]
Yea NV-2 Heller, Dean [R]
Yea NJ-2 LoBiondo, Frank [R]
Yea NJ-4 Smith, Christopher [R]
Yea NJ-7 Lance, Leonard [R]
Yea NJ-11 Frelinghuysen, Rodney [R]
Yea NY-3 King, Peter [R]
Yea NY-23 McHugh, John [R]
Yea NY-26 Lee, Christopher [R]
Yea OH-3 Turner, Michael [R]
Yea OH-7 Austria, Steve [R]
Yea OH-12 Tiberi, Patrick [R]
Yea OH-14 LaTourette, Steven [R]
Yea OK-1 Sullivan, John [R]
Yea OK-3 Lucas, Frank [R]
Yea OK-4 Cole, Tom [R]
Yea OR-2 Walden, Greg [R]
Yea PA-5 Thompson, Glenn [R]
Yea PA-6 Gerlach, Jim [R]
Yea PA-15 Dent, Charles [R]
Yea PA-18 Murphy, Tim [R]
Yea PA-19 Platts, Todd [R]
Yea TN-1 Roe, David [R]
Yea VA-1 Wittman, Rob [R]
Yea VA-10 Wolf, Frank [R]
Yea WA-5 McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [R]
Yea WA-8 Reichert, Dave [R]
Yea WI-6 Petri, Thomas [R]