You can have my kids when you pry them from my cold dead hands. Part 2

Imagine for a moment if George W. "Little Hitler" Bush, made a program that required you to relinquish your children into the control of a program which undertook tasks and curriculums created by his administration, and wore uniforms created by his administration.

Now swap Bush out with Obama.

I don't care if the person pushing something like this is George Bush, Barack Obama, Jesus Christ, or the Antichrist. I don't want my kids to be forced to do or attend anything because a politician says so. Until my children are 18, they are under my supervision. If you got a problem with that, you take it up with me. You don't make a law that snatches my children from my watch, and requires they attend your "community service" camp.

Community service, itself, is not bad. In fact, it's good! It lets people feel like they're giving back, and gives them a sense of ownership in their community.

I'm not against community service.

I'm against mandatory community service as defined by congress and the president.

Not this president or that congress, ANY president, ANY congress.

The word mandatory is a big one. Because it denotes that if you do not comply, something bad will happen. Nothing congress does exists without teeth for long. This bill doesn't appear to have any teeth in it right now, but how long until non-compliance gets too high, and congress and the president start fining parents and charging parents with crimes, and ABDUCTING CHILDREN?

What? Was that too much of a leap?

That's their goal isn't it? To get the kids to the community service organization? Fining and charging parents doesn't get the kids to physically attend. Besides, it's for the kids' own good, right? It's for the children!

These politicians feel that it's the government's solemn duty to take your kids to these community service organizations.

Do you doubt that's where it'll end up? It might take some time, but have no misconceptions; there is no other destination.

I seem to remember writing about this way back when everyone was telling us to ignore this "Obama youth" idea, because it was something that Obama didn't really care about, and would never gain traction.

What was it I said about it then? Oh yeah...

You think I'll fight when you come to take my guns? You try to take my kids and I'll make that fight look like a motherfucking bake sale. I'll fight 100 times harder, nastier, and more ruthlessly when you come to take my children, and I'll feel good about it.

If you want to strike the misgivings and uncertainty from a possible insurgent's heart, go after his children.

Here's a funny little provision of the bill...

[PROHIBITED FROM] 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.

They use the phrase "religious instruction or worship," which covers either "religious instruction" OR "worship" instead of "and," which could be read as including the adjective "religious" as a descriptor of the verb "worship."

What does "worship" mean again? Isn't it something you could do to a glorious leader?

And why specify religious proselytization? Why not just proselytization? Oh, I suppose I'm just reading into it too much right? It's not like poor wording of a bill ever results in unintended consequences, and leaves congress saying "That's not what we intended!"


Look, this isn't that complicated.


Regardless of party, regardless of president, regardless of noble intentions, regardless of timing, regardless of everything else...

When a government requires youth membership in a government organization, the eventual result is teaching children to elevate state over family.

Teaching kids that their dad isn't their father; the glorious leader is their father.
Teaching kids that their mom isn't their mother; the nation is their mother.

Don't fall in the trap of Republican vs Democrat, because it'll probably take a few presidencies for it to change, and the only party that will have complete control during that time, is the party of politicians.

It won't happen immediately. It won't be someone flipping a switch, and turning this well-meaning organization into the Hitler Youth. It will follow the same pace of creeping incrementalism that has gotten us where we are today.

So long as the government directly commands any position of mandatory education or activity for the youth of the nation, that is the inescapable evolution.

If you ignore it now, you won't find out until one day at dinner, when your son will interrupt you, and say that your speech is illegal, and that you should stop or he will report you.

By then it will be too late.

Oppose mandatory youth activities with direct government control in any form, from any party.

Fight them as if your future depended on it.
Because your kids are your future, and they depend on you.