Obama's National Citizen's Security Force is being pieced together, both at the Defense Department and in Congress.
Originally called Obama 2.0, "Organizing for America" is headed by Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe.
In early January, we highlighted the beginnings of the organization of "boots on the ground" designed to pressure Americans and lawmakers into accepting Obama's socialist agenda.
Earlier this week, H.R. 1388 just made the nightmare of Obama's "National Citizen's Security Force " a reality.
Yesterday, the Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday to broadly expand national community service programs, increasing the number of positions to 250,000 from 75,000 and creating new cadres of volunteers focused on education, clean energy, health care and veterans.
Sen. Jim DeMint discusses the many flaws of the National Service Act being considered on the Senate floor, calling it "a well-intentioned mistake".
It is understandable why Congress would want to get involved. We see that passion to serve, that desire to do something that is greater than yourselves. We look at that working in our civil society and we want to get involved and expand it.
Unfortunately, our history shows us when Government gets involved, it tends to take something that is working and make it not work nearly as well. Civil society works because it is everything Government is not. It is small, it is personal, it is responsive, it is accountable. Civil society must be protected from any effort to make it more like Government.
That is what we are doing with this bill today. This bill centralizes control of important functions of our civil society. There is a downside to good intentions here in Government. The Founders created a limited government and our oath to support and defend the Constitution means that is our focus here. Our oath is to a limited government. The Founders wanted the people to be free from our good
intentions. Government charity is anathema to what our Founders intended and what our Constitution stands for. Despite our good intentions, where we try to implement those good intentions and our compassion through the force of Government, we are effectively violating our oath of office here.
Read the whole speech here.
(H/T: Heritage)
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