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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A "September 11th Day of Service"?
2009-03-21
There's been some rising interest in the GIVE act that was just approved by the House. Everything about this bill is abhorrent, but this part raised my hackles a bit. Feel free to poke around the document and post your own finds:
(c) Call to Service Campaign and September 11th Day of Service- Section 198 (as amended by subsection (b) (42 U.S.C. 12653) is further amended by adding at the end the following:

'(j) Call to Service Campaign- Not less than 180 days after enactment of this Act, the Corporation shall conduct a nationwide 'Call To Service' campaign, to encourage all people of the United States, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, or economic status, to engage in full- or part-time national service, long- or short-term public service in the nonprofit sector or government, or volunteering. In conducting the campaign, the Corporation may collaborate with other Federal agencies and entities, State Commissions, Governors, nonprofit and faith-based organizations, businesses, institutions of higher education, elementary schools, and secondary schools.

'(k) September 11th Day of Service-

'(1) FEDERAL ACTIVITIES- The Corporation may organize and carry out appropriate ceremonies and activities, which may include activities that are part of the broader Call to Service Campaign, in order to observe September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance at the Federal level.

'(2) ACTIVITIES- The Corporation may make grants and provide other support to community-based organizations to assist in planning and carrying out appropriate service, charity, and remembrance opportunities in conjunction with the September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance.
'community-based organizations': they mean ACORN. ACORN will end up organizing 9/11 'remembrances'. Oh my.
'(3) CONSULTATION- The Corporation may consult with and make grants or provide other forms of support to nonprofit organizations with expertise in representing September 11th families and other impacted constituencies, in promoting the establishment of September 11th as an annually recognized National Day of Service and Remembrance.'.
Posted by:Seafarious

#7  Do we get to spend the day operating a Predator drone over Pakistan? No? Then forget it.
Posted by: DMFD   2009-03-21 20:52  

#6  Ever notice how all these groups that are obsessed with "the working class" keep looking for ways to get free labor out of all of us?
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-03-21 18:27  

#5  This has me seeing RED. I mean that in more ways than one. Get the word out, send this to other major blogs! We CAN NOT let them begin the "paradise" they want with the dead of 9/11 as a springboard!
Posted by: Charles   2009-03-21 15:58  

#4  This along with the Congress tax-anyone's-bad-behavior-back-to-the-stone-age recent tactic makes me wonder if this is what it was like to live in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or Zimbabwe.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2009-03-21 12:46  

#3  When voluntary becomes involuntary, it become a civilian draft.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-03-21 10:49  

#2  Don't know about you all, but I'm spitting mad at this attempt to re-define the meaning of 9/11 for this country.
Posted by: lotp   2009-03-21 10:48  

#1  This can be easily nipped in the bud, by starting an unofficial campaign of referring to it as "The September 11th Day of Service Against Muslim Extremism."

Changes the complexion of the event, no?
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-03-21 10:27  

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