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Program Resembles Domestic Draft In newly
rediscovered audio interview, Rahm Emanuel describes militarized training
aimed at preparing Americans to deal with terrorist attacks Paul
Joseph Watson, November 12, 2008 A newly
rediscovered 2006 audio clip has shed more light on Rahm Emanuel and Barack
Obama’s plan for compulsory community service and a “national civilian
security force”. In an interview with Ben Smith of the New York Daily News,
Emanuel outlined the agenda for military-style training, essentially a
domestic draft, aimed at preparing Americans for a chemical or biological
terrorist attack. Asked by
Smith about the universal service plan and whether people would have to live
in military barracks, Emanuel laughed before responding, “We’re going to have
universal civil defense training, somewhere between the ages of 18 to 25 you
will do three months of training….but there can be nothing wrong with all
Americans having a joint similar experience of what we call civil defense training
or civil service in service of the country, in preparation, which will give
people a sense of what it means to be an American.” In
response to the point that the program was significantly expanded in
comparison to what the U.S. government already has in place, Emanuel
responded, “Guess what - we have a lot more challenges so we are going to
need a lot to do it.” What
challenges is Emanuel referring to? The same crisis foretold by
Joe Biden, Colin Powell and others that we are “guaranteed” will unfold
shortly after Obama takes office? “It will be a common experience and we will be prepared,
God forbid, God forbid that there is a chemical hit, another terrorist act or
natural disaster becoming more frequent - there’ll be a body of citizens who
are ready and capable and trained - that’s all you have to think about,” said
Emanuel before smugly declaring, “We’re all here for you OK? It’s a circle of
love.” Asked if
the training would be military style, with people wearing uniforms, Emanuel
stated, “If you’re worried about are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks
the answer is yes,” adding that the service could be done through
state national guard. A jumping
jack is a military term for an exercise otherwise known as a star jump. What
on earth does Emanuel mean when he says Americans are going to be forced to
perform military-style physical exercises and what does this have to do with
civil defense or preparing for a terrorist attack? It sounds more like the
state-mandated physical workouts described in Orwell’s 1984. The video
then features a clip from C-Span from August 2006 in which Emanuel is asked
whether the program will be compulsory, to which he responds, “In a sense
it’s required of everybody, 18 to 25, three months, and at some point
at that point you do it.” The use of
the word “required” is noteworthy, because this exact terminology was
removed from Obama’s change.gov website when controversy over the
program arose last week. The
militarized nature of the program and its supposed intention sounds more like
a draft-lite than the “community service” angle now being pitched on Obama’s
website. It also bears similarities to the nationwide FEMA-run program
training pastors and preachers to act as “pacifiers” in the event of martial
law being declared after a terror attack or a natural disaster. Will the
liberal left pay as much attention to Emanuel’s stated agenda to implement a
proxy domestic draft as they did to rumors of Bush bringing back
conscription, or will the true scope of Obama’s “national civilian security
force” continue to fly under the radar?
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