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Whether by serendipity or desgin, Cameron is here preparing a way to brainwash British teens. Today it is voluntary, tomorrow compulsory. “While the new civilian National Citizen Scheme would initially be voluntary, Mr Cameron has previously expressed the hope that in time all 16-year-olds would take part.” Well, it will only take a little bit of legislation, Mr Cameron, and your “hopes” will become reality, and school holidays will be a time for kids to ‘learn’ voluntary servitude.
With the state in control of the educational system, it effectively controls the minds of the youth. The state gives direction to the national curriculum, wields power over teachers and pupils through various regulations and laws, prescribes ‘acceptable’ methods of punishment and of disciplining kids, prescribes religious principles that may or may not be followed in schools, etc etc.
With the educational system being in an appalling state, with youth running around knifing each other in the playgrounds and streets, spitting chewing gum inside public busses, and with no respect for elders, Cameron has another plan up his sleeve to whip youth into line: if 6-8 hours a day excluding school holidays isn’t enough to control the youth, maybe confining them over the summer holidays and putting them through an ’outdoor’ exercise course can provide the kind of brainwashing not impeded by the teachings in the classroom.
Maybe just refresh your memory by heading over to www.hitlercontrol.com of how Hitler used the “Hitler youth” programme to brainwash German lighties back in the day. Perhaps in time historians will refer to this as “Cameron Youth programme” too.
National Citizenship Service for 16-year-olds launched today
Every teenager in the country will today be invited to take part in a two-month summer residential course under plans for voluntary programme of national service.
By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
Published: 6:00AM BST 22 Jul 2010
The “National Citizen Service” will bring together 16-year-olds from different backgrounds and around the country to become community volunteers and join in outdoor pursuits.
David Cameron has said that he hopes participation in the non-military, voluntary form of national service will become a “rite of passage” for all teenagers.
It is being announced by Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office Minister, as part of the Government’s drive to create a “Big Society” of volunteers.
While critics have cast doubt over whether teenagers would be prepared to give up their summer holidays to participate in the programme, the scheme is close to the Prime Minister’s heart.
He was a member of the cadet force while at Eton College, and has also spoken of how much he enjoyed volunteering to help shop for local elderly people while at school. He wants the Service to become one of the “proudest legacies” of his Government.
As well as giving 16-year-olds a sense of “purpose, optimism and belonging,” Mr Cameron has said that he hopes that the scheme will promote a sense of greater community cohesion.
Teenagers would be put into mixed groups to ensure that they got to know youngsters from different social groups, ethnicities and parts of the country from their own.
When he announced the Citizen Service during the general election, Mr Cameron said: “I want to see a programme which engages young people and gives them a sense of purpose, optimism and belonging.
“Something like national service, but not military, not compulsory but universal.
“And in the same spirit, mixing up people from different backgrounds. A residential programme, so young people have time to live together, work together, play together.”
A military form of national service was compulsory in the United Kingdom between 1947 and 1960, and remains in place in a number of countries around the world, including Russia, Israel and China.
While the new civilian National Citizen Scheme would initially be voluntary, Mr Cameron has previously expressed the hope that in time all 16-year-olds would take part.
The programmes, which will include residential and at-home elements, will be run by independent charities and social enterprises, with input from local businesses.
In opposition, the Conservative Party helped raise £2 million for pilot programmes in London, Wales and the North West held in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
The 16-year-olds who took part in the pilots spent a week doing “challenging” outdoor activities, before a residential week in which they lived together while working on projects such as film making and sports coaching.
During a third and final week, youngsters were encouraged to come up with their own ideas for a challenge which would make a difference in their local community.
The aim of the pilots was said to be to teach “leadership, management and communication skills”.
Funding for the Citizen Service is being provided through the scrapping of a community cohesion programme run by the Department for Communities.
source: Telegraph.co.uk
Although I hear your concerns, I must say that I kindav agree with the idea. The average UK teen (not the upper class) is so different to us and ‘lacking’ in so many experiences that we have here in SA, and it shows in their lack of discipline.
Maybe this will help, maybe it won’t, but I am glad to see that someone is taking note that there is something lacking in their development.
Maybe this will help UK teens find a new zest for life, or maybe Cameron will start requiring a special salute to his eminent greatness. Who knows. The point here is not really the efficacy of the programme but the fact that the state feels it should prompt people into programmes and activities they otherwise might not want to be involved in. Its not government’s job to get teens active and responsible members of society. Call me old-fashioned but I thought parents were responsible for that in a child’s development. Here’s how you stop teens from becoming dysfunctional louts: you remove the incentives for them to slack off and degenerate into non-productive members of society. Remove child-support grants, social welfare benefits, unemployment checks, and the dole. The market will punish unproductive people and get them studying and working and contributing. Big Brother doesn’t need to waste public funds on an exercise programme for teens. It just needs to get out of the way, let parents discipline their children properly, allow life’s natural penalties for sloth to take their course, incentivise productive dynamism through lower taxes and regulations, and dismantle the archaic govt school system that treats teen adults like babies, teaches them next to nothing useful, and spits them out into the ‘real world’ as 19-tear old infants. Unless states make these reforms, Hitler-style exercise camps will make little difference. Most importantly, it remains worrying that in a supposedly free society we find nothing wrong with the state assuming the basic responsibilities of families and parents, to the ultimate grave detriment of our post-modern societies. It’s the lack of people’s understanding of freedom here that’s troubling, not Cameronhitler…