Posted on 02/21/2008 7:55:55 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s
Don't you just love that phrase! And how will they enforce it? "Hey, non-complier, you failed to go down and clean up the vomit and whatnot from those homeless drunks er I mean people", "we sentence you to five years in jail". Anything to do with forcing people to do this "community service" stuff is competely unconstitutional. I see a lot of lawsuits.
One would think that would be the likely result. But I am not so sure. For example, the ACLU goes to bat for HS students that wear asinine Tee shirts but AFAIK they've not complained about the mandatory "volunteer" work these same students are required to do for graduation.
Sadly, I think that there will be little said except from the sane conservative crowd. Most people in this country are already convinced that violating the Constitution is fine as long as it's for a "good cause".
The idea they floated in the article was to tie it to high school graduation, i.e. 100 hrs community service required for diploma.
Still unconstitutional in my own legally untrained opinion.
There’s a global warming nut in Germany that has that as his Freeper name I believe?
I of course completely agree that it's unconstitutional for the federal government to have any say-so in state high school graduation requirements. However, the feds have already so largely injected themselves into local school systems that the Constitution appears to have become an afterthought, if it's even a thought at all.
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