Mobilizing Obama's Youth Brigade
Posted: Tuesday, February 02, 2010
by Richard Vail
Chisel & Plane
Recently the Obama administration began to organize a program to mobilize young people this summer. The idea was to use the public school system to recruit young people to, quoting from Organizing for America web site "build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda." Toward this goal, funds were released by the federal Department of Education for use this summer and fall.
Even more surprising is the reading list that is suggested for children prior to involvement in the "internship" program. The list is on page four of the "internship" packet.
- Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
- The New Organizers, Zack Exley
- Stir It Up: Lessons from Community Organizing and Advocacy, Rinku Sen
- Obama Field Organizers Plot a Miracle, Zack Exley, Huffington Post
- Dreams of My Father Chicago Chapters, Barack Obama
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More commentsThis is indeed a really scary and shocking piece of information that scares me that if people in such high places of power are to "harvest" the young like this then there's no hope!There is always hope...it's now a matter of getting this publicized. Unfortunately the media here is "in tank" for Mr. Obama...though there are beginning to be rumbles of disatisfaction.
This article was pretty interesting and this author clearly expresses his opinion.Thanks for stopping by.
Great article Richard. I had heard about this too although you gave much more detail and I thank you for that. I will do my part to pass it on to others. Linda DThanks for coming by Linda. I appreciate it.
Hi RichardI came across this info (the youth brigades) a while back but was waiting to see where it was going since there is so much deceit going on all over, both sides, up and down. Pretty scary stuff. Still blows my mind that many of the people seem to be FOR this sort of thing. Thank you for helping to get the info out.Many BlessingsMy pleasure, thanks for commenting.
Absolutely false and misleading.If you say so...but you've not presented any argument to counter this. Thanks for coming by and reading.Hello Anonymous,Sure would be good to debate with a person who isn't afraid to give their name. What is "false and misleading" is the propaganda used to convince anonymous people like you to try to defend something that is blatantly wrong and blatantly "Hitlerish".BlessingsWell said, Goshwin.
richard,thanks for sharing your point of view-the wider vista of info we get the more objectivity we can strive for.Bing, thanks for taking the time to read and comment. I do appreciate your input.
Your slant is getting old. Youth involved in the political system. That's great! They should be.Yes, involvement of young people in our political system is good, but not when you turn them into a new set of Hitler Youth...but then, in your version of America I guess that's a good thing, not in mine.Your interpretation of Democratic youth is twisted. Comparing young Democrats to "Hitler Youth" is a perversion of reality.Have a brilly day.No it's not...the Hitler Youth "movement" was started as a way of getting children involved in helping to build a "new Germany." The fact that it was used as tool in propagandizing and brain washing the children of Germany can't be argued.Didn't you find the videos of children singing praises of Mr. Obama prior to the 2008 election, to be...frightening? Those were just the sorts of things that the Hitler Youth did...but I guess since National Socialism is in fact socialism, that makes it ok.Obama's actual speech to children. Fact.
I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself. Every single one of you has something that you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.Maybe you could be a great writer -- maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper -- but you might not know it until you write that English paper -- that English class paper that's assigned to you. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor -- maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or the new medicine or vaccine -- but you might not know it until you do your project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a senator or a Supreme Court justice -- but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life -- what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home -- none of that is an excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude in school. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. There is no excuse for not trying.Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.That's what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn't speak English when she first started school. Neither of her parents had gone to college. But she worked hard, earned good grades, and got a scholarship to Brown University -- is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to becoming Dr. Jazmin Perez.I'm thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who's fought brain cancer since he was three. He's had to endure all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer -- hundreds of extra hours -- to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind. He's headed to college this fall.And then there's Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods in the city, she managed to get a job at a local health care center, start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she's on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.And Jazmin, Andoni, and Shantell aren't any different from any of you. They face challenges in their lives just like you do. In some cases they've got it a lot worse off than many of you. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their lives, for their education, and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.That's why today I'm calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education -- and do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending some time each day reading a book. Maybe you'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you'll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all young people deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you'll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, by the way, I hope all of you are washing your hands a lot, and that you stay home from school when you don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.But whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.Now, your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books and the equipment and the computers you need to learn. But you've got to do your part, too. So I expect all of you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don't let us down. Don't let your family down or your country down. Most of all, don't let yourself down. Make us all proud.Google the following video from Youtube...
BARACK OBAMA KIDS AND HITLER YOUTH SING FOR THEIR LEADERwatch this video on Youtube...all of it and tell me what's the difference? But I guess it's ok to propagandize your children if you're a liberal.Anyone who buys into this - I have a bridge you might want to buy. Please!Bravely said, anonymous.As I stated before, but my comments are methodically deleted, this speech by Obama is encouraging. He is telling kids to live up to their potentials, to be active in government. I don't see what your fear is, especially knowing this whole threat would not exist if we were talking Republican Youth Brigade.Once you can put your name on what you have to say, I'll take you seriously. Anonymous doesn't cut it, that's the cowards way out.Your Comment:
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If any of this is not acceptable to you, please do not leave a comment.I kind of like these words, too. What's wrong with them? I was a member of a Democratic Action Committee when I was in high school. Other students were members of Republican student committees. I'm reading the above speech, and I only see positives. What's with the negative spin?Yep Anonymous,You're right with the proof you have presented. His teleprompter and speech writer did a great job. Just what we needed. A president to tell our kids to wash their hands.BlessingsHi D.I.A from The New America,With New America's "perversion of reality" Board of Directors like:1)Eric Schmidt: Chairman and CEO of Google.2)David G. Bradley: Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission (also owner of Atlantic Media Company).3)Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.: Member Council on Foreign Relations and Federal Reserve4)Walter Russell Mead: Senior Fellow at the Council on Foriegn Relations.5)Richard Medley: Life Member of the Council of Foriegn Relations.and many others of the same golden spoon mentality.We all know how corrupt these organizations are and how self-serving to the people who run them.It's no wonder one of its' "spokespeople" would say such as you did, denying the absolute wrongness of the "Obama Youth Brigades" and the absolute fact that it is all so very much just like Hitler's Youth.After all The New America's public policy for children age 3 through 3rd grade is called "The next Social Contract for the Primary Years of Education" and is trying to make it law that children of parents as young as 3 years old be forced to agree to enroll their babies (more time to program) in your Socialist School Systems. So what is so strange about you wanting to force all children into Obama's Hitler Brigades and call it "good" which I guess it may be for the golden-spooned people of The New America who have never done a days work in their lives but feel they have the right to sit behind their gold-lined desks and decide what is right for the children and the other poor peasants, who of course do all the labor for The New America as they did for The Old America before people like Thomas Paine changed that slave-trade.Afterall The Young America Monarchiasts believe, "Historically, public discussions of the Social Contract have largely ignored the role of families. In a pre-industrial world in which children both performed economically useful tasks while young and, as adults, offered vital support to their aging parents, it was easy to assume that the family as an institution cannot be relied on to take care of itself.""Today, however, the economic basis of the family is largely eroded. Children are no longer economic assets to their parents, but costly liabilities.""... support in old age no longer depends on an individual's decision to raise a family, but on other people bearing the burdens of parenthood so as to produce the vital human capital to keep the system going...""... Because having and raising children is a public good..."and "... to finish the job it began and create a truly universal and comprehensive social welfare state."The above quotes from The New American Monarchaists pretty much says it all... Doesn't it.Bless USHi Democracy In Action from The New America,Please take the time to read my comment to your "soldier in arms" below. Sounds like the propaganda works real well. Happy marching.BlessingsI have responded to you, Ms. Goshwin, at least twice now. But Mr. Vail persistently deletes my replies for some reason. I guess he's only interested in preaching to the choir, and opposing views are not allowed in his closed world. So, don't lecture me about freedom and liberty, and at the same time deny mine! March on to your Storm Fuhrer friends.Man is this getting a little strange. Okay so Gregory are you "Anonymous?" or has something went afoul with the comment section. When your name came up twice when I hit respond to the "Anonymous"comment:
"I have responded to you, Ms. Goshwin, at least twice now. But Mr. Vail persistently deletes my replies for some reason. I guess he's only interested in preaching to the choir, and opposing views are not allowed in his closed world. So, don't lecture me about freedom and liberty, and at the same time deny mine! March on to your Storm Fuhrer friends."I decided maybe searchwarp comment apparatus wasn't skewed but... why post as "Anonymous?"Okay, so Gregory,I would never and have never denied anyone the right to differ in their opinion from the opinion that I, personally, hold. I do love freedom, both for myself, others and especially for children. I have had the utmost respect for you from day one that I found searchwarp, feeling that you have an insight and an intelligence that I greatly admire even when I have not agreed with you and I would never say something like Storm Fuhrer friends to you. Though if you are getting deleted I do understand your frustration, I would feel the same.What I will say is that I have very mixed feelings about Obama's Administration in general but I have no mixed feelings about any more control by big money and big gov, and tons of hidden agendas by both. The potential for abuse and the loss of freedoms hidden within prettied-up words and promises are rampant.The New America is nothing more than another big money think tank that helps decide, along with other big money think tanks, the lives and fates of not just American's, but other people's of other countries, as well. Money (and the Anonymous owners of it) decide what policies get forced down people's throats, even when it appears it is the government itself with a many-stringed Marionette at the helm. A Marionette (President) is not an Island.Blessings to you AnonymousBut since you can't use your name, why should I take you seriously? You obviously don't have the courage to stand up like a man. It's very brave to be "anonymous." I have a great deal more respect for Greg Lewis, because he's man enough to put his name to what he has to say. You do not.I guess my real problem with you DIA is that you are hiding behind a pseudonym. If you have something to say, why not say it and put your name on it. Own it, don't hide ever so bravely behind a curtain...if you have something to say, and you think it's important...put your name on it.This is getting interesting.
Don't you wish those "anonymous" people had the fortitude to post under their own name? And that they could differ with you (maybe) but be a bit more polite in trying to make their point - it always seems to show their true colors when they need to be rude, condescending or sarcastic doesn't it? You and I don't agree right down the line an everything in life but we can be friends and polite to each other and actually carry on a dialog without hostility or derisiveness, eh? Just some thoughts in passing here. Thanks for writing this one. I have rarely gotten a polite comment from "anonymous" - unless it was simply someone who forgot to log in.MJ, I agree with you here.You should read the comments I put on Gregory's articles...we disagree uttterly when it comes to politics...but our discussions on each other's articles are at least civil and polite. He has a great article on securing the border/AZ's new law requiring police to check immigration status of people who are stopped, for example speeding,...but the discussion is always polite.Personally, if you can't put your name on a comment, then why bother to comment at all.Thanks for stopping by MJ, as always you have a keen insight to offer.I'd give you 5 stars again but I already did in my first comment on this piece. Guess we can't "vote" twice?
I'm inclined to agree with the dissenting opinions expressed here. What I am reading is nothing more than sore Republicans who resent young people who support Obama. I can't find a single problem in the above posted Obama speech, and I can't find a thing that is so different from what Republican youth are doing. I mean, based on the glowing reviews your followers are giving you, there's a lot of charismatic personality cult involved here every bit as frightening as what you're blaming Obama for.
Help me out here, where is the problem?Hi Gregory,First off, I am not a Republican, nor Democrat, nor Independent, nor Conservative. Well, I could go on but what's the use? People allow themselves to be put into categories (little closed boxes) that says, "my ideology is this or that or the other" never realizing it's all a very useful game and a smart maneuver by some very smart people in the psychology of human's profession that works for some really high-dollar folks. They just keep getting better and better at their jobs (must be why they are so wealthy) or maybe the people are just losing more and more of their own autonomy and thought processes.Words are beautiful things and powerful as all hell. Give a human a word and make sure it's pretty (making sure the double-speak stays hidden), pat him on the head and say "It's for your own good , cause I care about you" and you own him.Charisma is in the eye of the beholder and due to perception. Many times possibly faulty. Actually always faulty, for it implies the loss of one's own power. My power is fully intact and will stay that way. March on little boxes, being careful not to bam your heads on all those sharp corners and linear angles.BlessingsHi Goshwin, I was kind of hoping Mr. Vail would respond, but I'm actually happy to see one of his followers did.This article smacks of sour grapes. The fact of teenagers organizing for the promotion of the party they belong to, the ideals they believe in, and the leader that will take them there is not Nazism.Mr. Vail knows this (or, maybe he doesn't, which is equally scary). The comparison is not only a stretch of credulity, it's also a pathetic whining. For example, you would be hard pressed to show where young Democrats want to gas or eradicate people on the basis of their religion or ethnicity. In fact, judging by this fascist new law in Arizona, it looks like quite the opposite is the case, and that it is the Republicans who are goose stepping in unison to the red flag with the white circle and broken cross.
Read this while you can, I expect Mr. Vail will delete this before his other faithful followers get a chance to read it, as has been the case with other opposing opinions.When an author deletes opposing comments, as he did mine, I have no respect for what he preaches. Sorry. Fake Glenn Beck wannbe. If this is deleted, I will continually post it with the number of deletions. Who's really hiding the truth here? Dangerous and stupid. Be careful what you believe.I agree, thanks. It's one thing to challenge your opposition. It's quite another to censor them, and then have the audacity to claim they aren't stepping up to the plate.GDIA/Anonymous,When you put your name on your comments, I'll respond to you. I have no respect for "anonymous" our cutesy names...own your comments. If you're not a member, there is a way for you to put your name on what you say. I at least have the courage and conviction to put my name on my writing. Once you do, I'll take you far more seriously.Hello Gregory,Please do not call me a follower. If you actually knew me you would know that I am far from being such. I read an article that Richard wrote. Just like I read your articles. I expressed my opinions on his, as I express my opinions on yours. My Opinions. So when my opinion has coincided with what you expressed in your articles, does that mean that I am "one of your followers"? No, of course not, it simply means just what I said.Let me reinterate. Though you and others may have forgotten that you have a mind of your own independent from the professed ideology of your chosen political affiliation, I have not, nor have I ever aligned myself with any group, period. I don't like boxes. Especially when those boxes cause normally intelligent people to act childish. Though perhaps that very child-ishness of "stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me" attitude I am witnessing probably does need an overseer to help control it.Believing in something when it is truly an ideal of your own, independently held without deliberate propagandized influence, is one thing. When vast amounts of money and power are used to slant all information in one direction to obtain a desired outcome (especially when that outcome involves young impressionable children) is another thing all together.The days when you were a part of young democrats in school are not the days we are in now.If you wish to address me again, please do so with this fact in mind; Number one, I am not a democrat like you.
Number two, I am not a republican like Richard.I am me and that me uses her own brain to decide what I choose to believe based upon a hell of a lot of study, research and investigation. Your beliefs do not influence me, nor Richards. Nor Obama's.If I happen to agree with either of you or neither of you, at any point, do not delude yourself into believing it is because I am following you or him, nor that I find anyone "charismatic" enough to feel impressed enough to turn my power over to him/them. Sorry, but I have never found anyone I was THAT impressed with.Also, do not act as if you are addressing me when in actuality your comments were targeting "Mr. Vale."Have a great day GregoryGoshwin, I can't agree with you on this subject. If you choose to agree with Mr. Vail, that teenage Obama supporters equal Hitler Youth, I feel sorry for you. It is unjustified, except as hard feelings for the Republicans having lost to an African American Liberal Democrat. Since that is the position you seem to identify with, and I can't see how your responses can be read any other way, then oh well. This whole "Obama is like Hitler" tea bagging isn't my cup of tea.Gregory,I haven't asked you to agree with me, on this or anything else. That is not a requirement that I need. Nor do I need your condescending "pity". Pretty audacious words.The people that I feel sorry for are people who are so adament about something that they become that something, because they so identify with that something. A thing, an ideal, not a person. They are no longer a human being, they are a Democrat or a Republican.Just because a person disagrees with some of the agendas within this administration does not mean it is anything to do with the US's "African American Liberal Democrat" president, who by the way, is first and foremost a human being. That seems to be more the running board of the people who profess to be against racism, Gregory. Or is it because that's an easy, no-brainer argument that continues to perpetuate the divisions? As is the "tea-bagger" rhetoric.As far as agreeing with Richard, my suspicion of what has transpired and continues to transpire, in relation to many of the agendas involving children stands. Not based upon what Richard wrote but upon my feelings and beliefs. Do I believe that it seems reminescent of some prior similar ideologies, yes I do, in theory at least.But now on to another angle that people who are so caught up in the "fight" that they have blinders and ear muffs on, do you or anyone else really believe that people would not have seen the similarities between these two powerful men and their early proposals for children when this video was filmed and deliberately put out for people to see. Why can't you people see that this was done deliberately to cause just what it has caused.BY BOTH SIDES. Your own and the one you profess to hate.
Not by you or by Richard, of course. But by the ones who have set the stage for people like you, PUPPETS on STRINGS, to bring about their agendas. Which is ONE agenda, not two.
Enough said. Bless you GregoryWell said.As I said below, if George Bush had done something like this media and the insiden the beltway punditry would be up in arms...Greg,I don't have a problem with young people getting involved and organizing. What I do have a problem with is a "government mandated program" organizing children into political action.I would like you to stop for a minute and change of few things. Replace Barack Obama with George Bush...if Mr. Bush had attempted to do something of this nature, the press/MSM would be screaming at the top of their lungs. The ACLU and various other liberal organizations would do everything in their power to block this program from being implemented.Now, if it's not ok in that instance...why is ok for Mr. Obama? That is called hypocrisy.Greg,THere is nothing wrong with children becoming more involved with the political process. What is wrong is a "government program" that provides funds and direction for that purpose. That is what is wrong here.What would your opinion, and be honest now, if instead of Barack Obama implementing something such as this, but was George Bush? You know as well as I do, that the media, beltway punditry as well as just about every single Democratic/left leaning figure would be screaming in opposition to any such program.Ask yourself a simple question:Why is this permissible under Barack Obama, but not George Bush?That simple question is why I am firmly opposed to any sort of goverment directive that mandates political involvement of our youth. Because it smacks of what the Nazi's did when they formed the Hitler Youth. It smacks of the Soviet Union did with the Young Pioneers...I would oppose it if a GOP president were to try and direct something like this, and I oppose it when a Democratic president directs it. If you want something like this, it should be done with private funding, not government funds.Actually Richard, for me personally, you clarified the main issue I had with this whole thing. If people like The New America and Obama Organizing for America want this program then their golden-spooned ones need to finance it, not the government, who is supposed to be representing ALL American's, not just the ones who agree with the proposed agenda. Though if it is privately funded Obama will need to take his name off the marque, (?not sure if I got the spelling right?) and rename it Organizing for America. To not do so would be a massive conflict of interest. And we can't have that now, can we? After all we are a democracy.After all, when people like The James Irvine Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz and of course Wendy and Eric Schmidt are "donating" $1,000,000+ annually to The New America, why would they need real taxpayers to throw in their "few cents worth?"Oh, but wait, I guess I had a moments lapse in memory, real taxpayers are why the golden-spoon ones only have to rely on themselves to make such important decisions for their peasants, everyone knows they keep us too busy fighting, um, debating to be of any true worth.Blessings
THANK YOU FOR SHEDDING LIGHT ON THIS HORRIBLE MISUSE OF CHILDREN....we, as citizens must stop this kind of unbalanced greed for power.That's what the Tea Party movement is trying to do. It's real Americans, many of whom have never before been involved in political action, getting involved to roll back the size and scope of intrusive government power. Thanks for taking the time to write a comment.
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