Barack Obama's Youth Movement - Ominous Parallels?

There is much internet chatter these days about proposed compulsory service programs. Barack Obama proposes one plan with 50 compulsory hours as a condition of high school graduation. His to be Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel proposes a somewhat longer period for adults between 18 and 26 with boot camp, civil defense training, etc. While I do not think such things, IF VOLUNTARY (or even with college tuition reductions) are necessarily bad in and of themselves, there are historical precedents which reveal OMINOUS PARALLELS. I wrote of such in my 1983 released book, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow. Today, I found a lively discussion of same over at the RaptureReady website. Here is a telling quote which speaks of Hitler's planned youth programs. I did not find the Rapture Ready participant's source for this, but my own research over the years has shown this to be the case:

My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away. In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes . . . That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication . . . That is how I will create the New Order." -- Adolf Hitler, 1933.

Before the Nazi Party was founded, a strong youth movement already existed in Germany. It began in the 1890s and was known as the Wandervögel, a male-only movement featuring a back-to-nature theme. Wandervögel members had an idealistic, romantic notion of the past, yearning for simpler days when people lived off the land. They rejected the modern, big city era and took a dim view of its predecessor, the industrial revolution, which had been started by their fathers and grandfathers. They scorned greed and materialism, and the new emerging corporate mentality. They found strict German schooling oppressive and rejected parental authority. They saw hypocrisy in politics and the social class system of Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany, which was based entirely on birth and accumulated wealth. Instead, they longed for a Jugendkultur, a culture of youth led by youth, in which they would be truly valued. They wanted something greater to believe in than the values of their parents. Wandervögel members distinguished themselves by wearing shorts and hiking boots rather than the starched shirts and creased trousers of the middle class. They delighted in rediscovering nature without any modern conveniences, traveling on hikes and sleeping out under the stars. They sang old German folk songs around the campfire and also developed a custom of greeting each other by saying "Heil." The Catholic Youth Organization, the Boy Scouts, along with a variety of political, religious, para-military, and sports groups
sprang up, organized so that youth was indeed led by youth, with the leader being just a few years older than the boys he led." http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar...beginnings.htm

This is like the beginning of the Nazi's!!!

1) Target the children!

2) Convince the children and the parents, this is for za Fazerland! (phonetic)

3) Forced labor children resent children that aren’t forced or unable to participate

4) Children, full of resentment, start to see disabled children as a useless burden to society. "Why should I do this work, and they don’t have to?"

The slaughter of human beings in Germany, did not begin in the camps, but in what they called then "asylums". Where the neat tidy German people, put others that were disabled in any way or form. The Nazi's began their testing of the most efficient way to kill people, in these asylums. They killed them. When family members showed up to visit, and their loved ones were gone, they would explain that they had "eased their loved ones of their suffering", and eased them of "their burden". Little Nazi’s grow into big Nazi’s….

The Nazi horror is a lesson that must never be forgotten. Too many of our young people know little or nothing about that era.

Stay tuned.

Constance