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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://community.fox23.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>National Politics</title><link>http://community.fox23.com/forums/4718/ShowForum.aspx</link><description>National Politics being discussed here</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60217.2664)</generator><item><title>Re: Obama youth civilian national security force- a requirement??</title><link>http://community.fox23.com/forums/thread/3729362.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:52:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bcb50b42-71ac-48c6-b6fa-27de95155c4b:3729362</guid><dc:creator>tracid1826</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.fox23.com/forums/thread/3729362.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.fox23.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=4718&amp;PostID=3729362</wfw:commentRss><description>I am curious as to why I haven't seen the States declaring sovereignty laws being passed on any of the news stations.&amp;nbsp; I had to go on the internet to find out these laws.&amp;nbsp; Oklahoma being one of the states included.&amp;nbsp; The laws state that we will be protected by the ninth and tenth amendment that we will not abide by any new laws that in any way go against the Constitution. That no president or any government being in the United States has in no way any authority to cause the individual states to succumb to this. The things spoken above in this measure of the youth in this state is now protected by this law and our youth will by no means in any way be subject to such action, even by our president.&amp;nbsp; In a sense we will secede under the protection of the Constitution of the United States of America. 8 states have delared sovereignty and 12 more are declaring sovereignty.&amp;nbsp; Come on fox,&amp;nbsp; notify our people to put their minds at ease knowing we aren't tolerating these abominations any longer.&amp;nbsp; For more info. on these new laws, search under STATES DECLARING SOVEREIGNTY.</description></item><item><title>Obama youth civilian national security force- a requirement??</title><link>http://community.fox23.com/forums/thread/3579510.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:52:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">bcb50b42-71ac-48c6-b6fa-27de95155c4b:3579510</guid><dc:creator>jd4fox23</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.fox23.com/forums/thread/3579510.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.fox23.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=4718&amp;PostID=3579510</wfw:commentRss><description>A video of a 2006 interview with now-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for &lt;BR&gt;president-elect Barack Obama reveals plans for mandatory induction for all young &lt;BR&gt;adults into a civilian "force."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"If you're worried about, are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks, the &lt;BR&gt;answer is yes," Emanuel told the interviewer, a reporter who was podcasting for &lt;BR&gt;the New York Daily News at the time.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;WND reported last weekend when the official website for Obama, Change.gov, &lt;BR&gt;announced he would "require" all middle school through college students to &lt;BR&gt;participate in community service programs.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;However, after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama's &lt;BR&gt;proposed youth corps, officials softened the website's wording.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Originally, under the tab "America Serves," Change.gov read, "President-Elect &lt;BR&gt;Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and &lt;BR&gt;will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in under served schools, as &lt;BR&gt;well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan &lt;BR&gt;to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and &lt;BR&gt;100 hours of community service in college every year," the site announced.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;WND previously reported on a video of a marching squad of Obama youth and &lt;BR&gt;Obama's "civilian national security force," which he said in July would be just &lt;BR&gt;as powerful and well-funded as the U.S. military.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Now comes the Emanuel video, which has been embedded here:&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;In the interview, Emanuel was questioned whether participants in the proposed &lt;BR&gt;force would live in barracks.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Somewhere between the age of 18 to 25 you will do three months of training. You &lt;BR&gt;can do it at some point in your college time," he said. "There can be nothing &lt;BR&gt;wrong with all Americans having a joint, similar experience of what we call &lt;BR&gt;civil defense training or civil service."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Emanuel said the planned requiring service "will give people a sense of what it &lt;BR&gt;means to be an American."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;He said, of course, the plan at that point was flexible.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"We propose three months [but] at the end of the day [if] someone says it should &lt;BR&gt;be four . I'm not going sit here and hold up [plans]," Emanuel said.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;When the reporter questioned the commitment, Emanuel responded, "Guess what. We &lt;BR&gt;have a lot more challenges. We are going to need a lot to do it. If you're &lt;BR&gt;worried about are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks the answer is yes."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;He chuckled at the reporters concerns.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"Rather than figure out if whether you take a train ride or a barrack. . Think &lt;BR&gt;of it this way, it will be a common experience.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;"There will be a body of citizens who are ready, capable and trained," he said.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;But the plan, especially its demand that Americans participate in a domestic &lt;BR&gt;"force," has been raising questions.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The blogger Gateway Pundit called Obama's plan the "creation of his Marxist &lt;BR&gt;youth corps," and DBKP commented, "'Choosing' to serve should be approved by &lt;BR&gt;parents - not required by the government. No amount of good intentions can &lt;BR&gt;sugar-coat words like 'mandatory,' 'compulsory' or 'required.'"&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Emanuel uses his book, "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," to specify that he &lt;BR&gt;would propose, for all Americans ages 18 to 25, that they "serve their country &lt;BR&gt;by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and &lt;BR&gt;community service."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Obama, meanwhile, also has yet to clarify what he meant during his July "Call to &lt;BR&gt;Service" speech in Colorado Springs in which he insisted the U.S. "cannot &lt;BR&gt;continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security &lt;BR&gt;objectives we've set" and needs a "civilian national security force."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=80829"&gt;http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=80829&lt;/A&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>