The GIVE Act - opens door to slavery AND violates First Amendment! (UPDATED)

The other day, I posted about HR1388, also known as the GIVE Act, and pointed out that it opens the door to "voluntary" MANDATORY service - an oxymoron (emphasis on MORON) if I ever read one.  UPDATE: I've corrected that post; I got my links mixed up, and section 6104, while in the original referred to the House, does NOT appear in the final version sent to the Senate.

Well, now look at Section 125: {UPDATE: The link on http://thomas.loc.gov is not permanent, so you'll have to go here and then click into one of the text-of-bill links to find section 125}

(a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities:

     (1) Attempting to influence legislation.

     (2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes.

     (3) Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing.

     (4) Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements.

     (5) Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office.

     (6) Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials.

     (7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.

For a refresher, here is the full text of the First Amendment (link has the full Bill of Rights):

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

So, let's break it down a little, shall we:

• Prohibiting the free expression of religion? Check.
• Prohibiting the freedom of speech? Check.
• Prohibiting the right of peaceful assembly? Check and check (both for political AND religious reasons - nice double play there, you anti-constitutional buffoons!)
• Prohibiting the right to petition the government for redress of grievances? Check.

As you can see, the seventh point really burns my gut. And I know, I know, some of you anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-Constitution liberal lunatics out there will say, "Oh, that's just for MANDATORY religious services!" Nope. Sorry. That word applies only to the phrase "providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship," not the rest of that paragraph.

So, programs run by Prison Fellowship and Alcoholics Anonymous, for instance, would be on the list of activities which are likely to be prohibited.

Congress is pushing this law through - not private citizens or private businesses or private organizations. CONGRESS.

So, where are the liberal moonbats and their screams of censorship and suppression?

[crickets chirping]

Yeah, I thought so.

Time to make sure we're stocked up, and to triple polish the guns, folks. We just might be getting into the Second Revolution any day now...

Comments

[K T Cat]

1.

Wow.

[Kat]

2.

Yup.

I am staggered, flabbergasted, and IRATE! at the idiocy of our elected
officials. Time to throw 'em ALL out!

[Ogre]

3.

You have to understand the left. Your rights end where THEY begin. In other words, and I'm not making this up, you can have all the rights you want until your rights conflict with their choices. Seriously, that's how they think.

Sure, you have a first amendment. You can do all that "religious stuff" that you want, as long as doing so doesn't stop the government from doing what they want. Since they want to institute slavery, they will do so, and if you claim you have a "right" to not participate, or a "right" to read a Bible when you're doing so, they will use force to ensure that you do not exercise that right because they don't believe in ANY right that conflicts with their idea of the moment.

[Ogre]

4.

And technically, the way that "law" is written, you cannot do any of those things while you're a slave. In other words, once you're in that project, you cannot, on your own time, assist during your Sunday school classes.

[Kat]

5.

Yep. That's the way it reads to me, too, Ogre....

[Brandy the Anti Fascist]

6.

well said. And trust me I am first in line for Revolution.

[Jay Norton]

7.

I am glad someone else has noticed this . My opinion is that, as far as our relationship to the Left, there should be no more "reaching out", "building bridges", "being 'points of light'", "coming across the aisle" or compromise.

We should just defeat them.