Liberty Maven

On the President-Elect’s web site Change.gov, Obama advocates compulsory community service:

…all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and … all college students … conduct 100 hours of community service…

As Garry Reed points out in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Libertarian Examiner, compulsory is just another word for slavery.

Why oh why would the first black president of America allow, and perhaps even encourage, yet another form of slavery in our nation? Has Barack Obama forgotten the African-American side of his own heritage? Doesn’t he know that compulsory community service is just slavery by a different name?

The controversy over coercing young people into national servitude to their political masters emerged almost as soon as Obama named Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff-in-waiting.

J.D. Tuccille, Civil Liberties Examiner for Dallas Examiner.com was one of the first to point out that Emanuel co-authored a book that calls for compulsory service for all Americans ages 18 to 25.

Read the rest of the article at examiner.com.

And, as the Disloyal Opposition put it:

…I see no reason why compelled service should not be regarded as involuntary servitude — labor rendered against one’s will — of the sort forbidden in the United States under the Thirteenth Amendment. More importantly, I see no reason why compelled service, as an imposition against an individual’s right to exercise liberty and determine the course of his or her own life, should not be regarded as evil.

The article is entitled Screw compulsory service. It’s a good read.