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Obama's 'civilian national security force'
Posted: July 15, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008 

With all the reporters covering the major presidential candidates, it amazes me no one ever seems to ask the right questions.

For several days now, WND has been hounding Barack Obama's campaign about a statement he made July 2 in Colorado Springs – a statement that blew my mind, one that has had me scratching my head ever since.

In talking about his plans to double the size of the Peace Corps and nearly quadruple the size of AmeriCorps and the size of the nation's military services, he made this rather shocking (and chilling) pledge: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Now, since I've never heard anyone inside or out of government use the phrase "civilian national security force" before, I was more than a little curious about what he has in mind.

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Is it possible I am the only journalist in America who sought clarification on this campaign promise?

What does it mean?

If we're going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn't this rather a big deal?

I thought Democrats generally believed the U.S. spent too much on the military. How is it possible their candidate is seeking to create some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?

Now, maybe he was misquoted by the Congressional Quarterly and the Chicago Tribune. I guess it's possible. If so, you would think he would want to set the record straight. Maybe he misspoke. That has certainly happened before. Again, why wouldn't the rest of my colleagues show some curiosity about such a major and, frankly, bone-chilling proposition?

Are we talking about creating a police state here?

The U.S. Army alone has nearly 500,000 troops. That doesn't count reserves or National Guard. In 2007, the U.S. Defense budget was $439 billion.

Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that?

If not, why did he say it? What did he mean?

So far, despite our attempts to find out, the Obama campaign is not talking.

At this point all I can do is enlist your help – and the help of every other journalist who still thinks the American people have a right to know the specifics about a presidential candidate's biggest and boldest initiatives before the election. I also want to ask radio talk-show hosts across America to start asking this same question. I have a feeling if others join our quest, we might yet get clarification on this proposal from Obama.

Who will Obama appoint to administer this new "civilian national security force"? Where will the money come from? Where in the Constitution does he see justification for the federal government creating such a domestic army?

The questions are endless.

But before we can hope to get to the specifics, we need much more in the way of generalizations from Obama.

Certainly there have been initiatives like this elsewhere – Cuba, the Soviet Union, China, Venezuela, North Korea. But has anything like this ever been proposed in a free country?

I have a feeling there would be more questions from the press if I myself had proposed the creation of something as preposterous as a "civilian national security force" than there has been about this proposal by the presidential candidate currently leading in most of the polls. I'm quite sure I would be hung out to dry as some kind of Nazi thug. Meanwhile, Obama makes this wild suggestion and it is met with a collective yawn from the watchdogs.

Help me out here. What am I missing?

Can I get a hand?

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Hmm, jobs Americans won't do?  I wonder if his new security force will even be American citizens.  I wonder if they will even speak American.  Are those hundreds of detention centers across the country starting to find clarity here?  Yeah, I'm going to the extreme.  How come Glenn Beck hasn't caught onto this yet?

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I'll keep my guns, freedom and money. You keep the *change*.

Are we talking about Obama or Adolf Hitler and the SS, sounds like Obama may have read "Mein Kamph"

Wake Up America!

RC

 

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Obama is a madman that seems like he wants to take over the world at everyone else`s expense.He is getting scarier every time he opens his mouth to let more BS run out,and seems to be out of control with his thoughts and actions.

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I promise you guys, the AntiChrist is supposed to come from the North, not nesscessarily Russia, I don't think, Chicago is well North of Texas, he is supposed to be Hypnotic in his speaking abilities, very well spoken and articulate at saying nothing more than I will bring about change and get us out of Iraq.   Heck, looks like we may be getting closer to getting out of Iraq with our heads held high with W. still in the White house.  Trust me, the resale value of the White House is gonna Drop like a rock if Osabama moves in.

Well, we already have the FBI and the BATFE (which is out of control and should be defunded). Obama can propose a civilian National Security Force, but it's Congress who has to come up with the money for it. I don't like the idea, but you never know about Congress. There are a lot of idiots up there on the hill, and you just never know what they're going to do.

Here in our congressional district, we just tossed our incumbent Congresscritter out on his ear in the primary, mainly for not having a back bone and getting too comfortable in Washington and not representing our interests here. So we did our part here in Utah's third congressional district. What are the rest of you going to do?    

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right on, every one of you guys.  Obama the anti-christ, maybe not.  Obama another incremental Hitler, I could see that.  Well lets just hope that this can be fixed politicaly, I have no desire to see a second revolutionary war.  Stop voting for thiese dem/rep ***, you are throwing away your vote if you do, not if you don't.  Why do we feel that we have to compromise on this.  That's such a dumb argument, If I don't vot dem. or rep. I'm throwing away my vote.  Tell them where they can shove it and vote for the constitution, who ever you want, write it in I don't care.

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