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Q: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Freedom to Serve Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress makes the following findings:
(1) According to article I, section 8 of the United States
Constitution, Congress has the power to raise and support
armies and to provide and maintain a navy; and to make all laws
necessary and proper to carry out these powers.
(2) The First Amendment states: ''Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably assemble,
and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.''.
(3) According to the United States Supreme Court, the right
to peaceable assembly is a right similar to those of free
speech and free press and is equally essential. (De Jonge v.
Oregon).
(4) The key word being ''peaceably'', the First Amendment
protects peaceful, not violent, assembly and protest.
(5) The successful recruiting of men and women to serve in
the armed services of the United States is fundamental to the
security of the American people.
(6) Serving in the military is highly honorable, and often
requires great sacrifice and courage by the men and women of
our armed services.
(7) United States military recruiters have been subject to
an escalating number of acts of vandalism and violent protest,
including but not limited to:
(A) March 2003: Anti-war protestors in Ithaca, NY,
target a recruitment center that had been hit before
with Molotov cocktails. On St. Patrick's Day, wielding
cups of their own blood, they entered a Lansing
military recruitment office and splashed their blood
over recruiter posters, military cutouts and the
American flag.
(B) January 20, 2005: At Seattle Central Community
College, Army recruiter Sgt. Jeff Due and his colleague
Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Washington were hounded by an
angry mob of approximately 500 anti-war students. The
recruiters' table was destroyed; their handouts, torn
apart. Protesters threw water bottles and newspapers at
the soldiers. A far-left anti-war group had been
agitating to kick the recruiters off campus. The
college administration refused to punish the radicals.
(C) January 31, 2005: Recruiters in Manhattan
reported that a door to their office had been beaten
in. Various anti-war symbols were scrawled in red paint
on the building. On the same day, New York police
arrested a young Manhattan College junior and charged
him with throwing a burning rag into an Army recruiting
station and ruining the door locks with super glue.
(D) February 1, 2005: At a South Toledo, Ohio,
recruitment center, protesters hurled manure all over
the building. They broke windows and sprayed vulgar
graffiti on office property.
(E) March 2005: In East Orange, NJ, young anti-
military protesters shattered the windows of an Army
recruitment station and a neighboring Navy office.
(F) March/April 2005: Anti-war protestors at New
York's Bronx Community College shut down several
military recruitment sessions. At UC Santa Cruz,
protestors drove recruiters off campus after an hour-
long demonstration of shouting and window banging.
(G) May 2005: Student protestors swarmed the booths
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the USAF at a
San Francisco State University career fair. In
Wisconsin, an Air Force ROTC information day was
canceled due to threats by an anti-war group at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(H) April 2006: UC Santa Cruz students ambushed
military recruiters. Vandals at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill tossed cans of red paint in
front of an ROTC office and spray-painted vulgarities
all over its doors. University of Minnesota students
splattered red paint all over an Army recruiting
station.
(I) December 2006: Protesters in Lawrence, Kansas
crippled business at an Army/Navy recruitment center,
where workers' car tires were slashed and bomb-proof
glass had to be installed.
(J) January 2007: Pittsburgh protestors shut down a
recruitment station for a day, wielding signs calling
recruiters ''child predators''.
(K) March 2007: Vandals broke into a Milwaukee
recruitment station wielding crowbars.
(L) July 2007: A protestor in Bremerton, Wash.,
slashed tires of Army recruiting vehicles to protest
the Iraq war because he ''hated the military''. In
Maryland, vandals smashed a Rockville Air Force career
center. In Lufkin, Texas, Navy recruiters were the
targets of vandals who keyed their cars, smashed their
windows and shot at their vehicles with ''what appeared
to be a high-powered pellet gun''.
(M) August 2007: In Stamford, Conn., a protestor
twice left a fake bomb package at a military
recruitment office.
(N) September 2007: An anti-war group calls on
followers to commit fraud to interfere with military
recruiters. Anti-war protestors shut down the Times
Square recruitment station.
(O) October 2007: An anti-war group defaces the
Berkeley recruitment office.
(P) January 2008: Protesters chain themselves to
the Berkeley recruiting center to shut it down, and
vandalize the windows with bloody handprints and signs
branding recruiters ''death pimps''.
(Q) February 2008: Vandals trash the recruiting
station at 14th and L Streets in Washington, DC, which
has been subjected to multiple attacks.
(R) March 2008: A bomb goes off at the Times Square
recruitment station.
(8) In the face of escalating threats against military
recruiters and facilities, Congress must take steps to increase
protection of military recruiters and those who wish to serve
their country in uniform.

SEC. 3. INTERFERENCE WITH MILITARY RECRUITING.

(a) Offense.--Chapter 67 of title 18, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
''Sec. 1389. Interfering with military recruiting
''(a) Whoever--
''(1) by force or threat of force or by physical
obstruction, injures, intimidates or interferes with or
attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person
because that person is or has been providing Federal or State
military recruiting services;
''(2) by force or threat of force or by physical
obstruction, injures, intimidates or interferes with or
attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person
lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise their right to
inquire about or volunteer for service in the active or reserve
armed services of the United States or the National Guard of
any State; or
''(3) intentionally damages or destroys the property of a
facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility houses or
hosts military recruiting services;
shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).
''(b) The punishment for an offense under this section is--
''(1) in the case of a first offense, a fine under this
title or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both; and
''(2) in the case of a second or subsequent offense after a
prior conviction under this section, a fine under this title or
imprisonment for not more than 3 years, or both.
''(c) In this section--
''(1) the term 'facility' includes the building or
structure in which recruiting is conducted;
''(2) the term 'interfere with' means to restrict any
person's ability or freedom to easily enter or leave a
recruiting office;
''(3) the term 'intimidate' means to place a person in
reasonable apprehension of bodily harm to that person or to
another;
''(4) the term 'physical obstruction' means rendering
impassable entrance into or exiting from a facility that
provides military recruiting services, or rendering passage to
or from such a facility unreasonably difficult or hazardous;
''(5) the term 'military recruiting services' means the
provision by representatives of the Government or of the armed
services, to individuals who might wish to serve in the armed
services, of information about military service, assistance in
selecting a branch of military service, enlistment information,
or any other necessary assistance needed to join the armed
services of the United States; and
''(6) the term 'State' means a State of the United States,
the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or
possession of the United States.''.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of
chapter 67 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the
end the following new item:

''1389. Interfering with military recruiting.''.
(c) Direction to Sentencing Commission.--The United States
Sentencing Commission, in establishing or amending sentencing
guidelines with respect to offenses under the section added to title 18
by this Act, shall consider the threat posed to national security and
the national defense by these offenses an aggravating factor so that
the base levels for punishment for these offenses is greater than those
for otherwise similar offenses.
A:
Freedom to Serve Act of 2008 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose criminal penalties for: (1) using force or the threat of force or physical obstruction to injure, intimidate or interfere with anyone providing federal or state military recruiting services or anyone seeking to inquire about or volunteer for military service in the active or reserve Armed Forces or the National Guard of any state; or (2) intentionally damaging or destroying facilities that house or host military recruiting services.