Nanfeishen
Executive Member
Could not believe what I just came across on Usenet. Alex Jones' new documentary - The Obama Deception. Below is the description of it.
If it was only people like Alex Jones and a few others, it would be understandable to accept it as nonsense, but a little further research yields a few other articles of similar content:
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Obama's "progressive federalism" a one-way road to more regulation
http://theamericancontrarian.blogspot.com/2009/02/obamas-progressive-federalism-one-way.htmlThe insidious thing about "progressive federalism" is that it is a one-way street, selectively employed in a manner designed to relentless increase, but never decrease, government power and control. Obama and other statists are more that happy to see command-and-control California set higher-than-federal auto emission standards, in a case of wag the dog regulating. But states that decide to go another way, and regulate below the federal standard -- who decide, for instance, to opt out of certain provisions of the Clean Air Act or Endangered Species Act -- are out of luck, and will find the federal hammer coming down on them.
The point is made explicit by William Marshall, a law professor at the University of North Carolina who was deputy White House counsel in the Clinton years, when he's quoted by The Times as saying that federal rules should serve "as a floor and not a ceiling,” meaning that states would be allowed to pile new regulations on, but never remove or renounce them.
So much for experimentation. So much for choice. This "laboratory" is designed to produce only one outcome -- more regulation.
We also encounter the Citizen service idea :
The plausibly deniable draft :
Both Barack Obama and John McCain have long supported some sort of "national service" that involves large-scale participation by Americans in projects deemed worthy by a government agency. It may mean building housing, assisting with the provision of medical care or patrolling the border, but overall it involves putting aside personal preferences for, as McCain puts it, "a cause greater than yourself."
Obama's national service plan is "voluntary" in a technical sense -- nobody will be arrested for declining to participate. But non-participants also won't be allowed to graduate from high school, and without those diplomas, life could get a bit rough.
http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil...--Obamas-very-modern-take-on-national-serviceUnder Barack Obama's plan, a refusal to participate in a national service program touted at the federal level will be punished by the withholding of high school diplomas by the school district in your town. And without that diploma, few colleges or employers will even bother to look at your application.
It's a softer sort of authoritarianism which requires no draft boards, muddles the identity of the "bad guy" and produces no martyrs in handcuffs for the evening news. You just can't get a job if you don't do as you're told.
Heres a nice site explaining the "plan"
Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan for Universal Voluntary Public Service
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/service/
and then we have:
Welcome to Citizen Service for Obama
http://www.citizenserviceforobama.org/
After reading the above site, for some reason my mind jumped to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Trooper world of citizen service.