This free-standing bill, which directs the proposed commission to “enhance our Nation and the global community,” reaches to kid-level, providing “the means to develop awareness of national service and volunteer opportunities at a young age by creating, expanding and promoting service options for primary and secondary school students.”

If you think this will be limited to public schools, you don’t know the mindset driving this bus.

And if you’re a sacrificial parent homeschooling or sending your children to a religious school so that they won’t be engulfed by the public school MTV culture that has led 11-year-olds to “sextext” nude pictures to each other, you’ll be out of luck. Your kid will need to go with the flow.

The McDermott bill requires the commission to study “[w]hether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed to … overcome civic challenges by bringing together people from diverse economic, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.” Or, as riot icon Rodney King might say, “Can’t we all be forced to get along?”

Of the face of it, mandatory civilian service violates the 13^th Amendment’s prohibition on involuntary servitude. During a national crisis, such as World War II, married men with children were given the choice: military service or work in a defense plant.  The Constitution’s Article 1, Section 8 allows Congress to “raise and support armies” and to “provide and maintain a navy.” It’s one thing to allow for conscientious objection to a military draft; it’s another to draft civilians to serve in politicians’ pet projects absent an emergency.

The McDermott bill also charges the commission with examining “the need” for a federal, four-year college to train “future public sector leaders.”

Think of it, an entire university churning out graduates with the same mentality as ACORN, which is to say they will view the nation as entirely secular and public, except the parts that are stubbornly and temporarily private.

Papers will be written and policies hatched to ensure that this will not be tolerated much longer.