Ben Smith’s interview with Rahm Emanuel in 2006.
In the audio here, recorded in 2006, Obama’s recently selected chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, details his ideas for compulsory service for all Americans. “There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint similar experience of civil… what we call civil defense training or civil service… some sense of service to country in preparation, which will give people a sense of what it means to be an American,” Emanuel told NY Daily News reporter Ben Smith.
According to Emanuel, this government mandated servitude “will give people a sense of what it means to be an American,” or an American of the sort defined by the bankers and their minions.
