HR 5741: National Service Bill Introduced by Charles Rangel

The author, Jordan Yerman states:"The blogosphere is in an uproar over the Universal National Service Act, calling it "the Slavery Bill", as it includes no language for any sort of compensation for these two years of service"Most people are not calling this slavery due to a lack of compensation, as if that would somehow justify this action!  To make this claim is to trivialize the issue.  This is slavery because it constitutes involuntary servitude, violating the constitutional rights to life and liberty of each individual, as well as the 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution.Our government run educational system has done a fine job of inverting, in the minds of many citizens, the relationship between the individual and their government.  Our Declaration of Independence clearly spell out that it is "self-evident" that each sovereign individual possesses "unalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".  These are inherent rights which we possess as part of our human nature, and are not some gift bestowed upon us by a benevolent state.  The Declaration continues: "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed".  Individuals are not duty-bound to serve the state; just the opposite!  Government is created for one very explicit purpose, which is to serve the need to protect those rights possessed by every individual member of society -- and nothing more.  Period!When some government bureaucrat proposes to force you, me, or anyone else, against our respective voluntary wills, to serve the government's interests under direction of some state administrator, whether that be for an hour, a day, two years, or a lifetime, and regardless of whether we are compensated or not, this is nothing less than slavery, and no amount of weasel words or Orwellian doublespeak will alter or hide this simple fact.If you value your life and the freedom to decide how you wish to live it, then you should be alarmed that this bill is even being discussed in the halls of Congress by a body of elite members who have made it clear that they intend to be the masters, ruling over us and directing every aspect and decision affecting our lives.  Do not wait until it is too late to fight back against this tyranny.  Rise up today in protest over this abomination and work to insure that it never sees the light of day.For a full take on this bill, see my article at:  go-galt.org/Galt_Pledge/JG_Current.htmlAnd for a discussion of the philosophical meaning underlying this issue, refer to the following web page:  go-galt.org/Galt_Pledge/In liberty,--C. Jeffery Small