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The "just as well-funded" part is what scares me. Where is all this money going to come from? Get ready for higher taxes...
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The military is taking care of national security and the dept of homeland security is taking care of homeland security and the police is taking care of local security.
These civilian paramilitary must be OBAMA's military so all of us will be forced to follow OBAMA's policies.
Are we losing our day-to-day freedom with these civilian paramilitary watching over our shoulders?
I can just imagine these civilian paramilitary which is just as strong the the US military fighting against the US military if OBAMA gets pissed off at the US military. Obama will probably recruit his own civilian military. He has a LOT of shady friends. Imagine a civilian military with TANKS, military weapons, stealth aircraft, and bombs to be as strong as the US military. Wow. Good plan, Obama!
Obama is already looking out for himself after his term because he has already trained his civilian military to fight the US military when he is out of office.
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I've heard people explain this as community service and that may be so. But as soon as you put the words "civilian" together with "security" "force" "national" etc., it becomes military in definition. Our military's role right now is to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Not the streets of Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia. Not the elected leaders of our country. So where will the loyalty of this civilian force lie?
In Cuba one might call this the ":Committee for the Defense of the Revolution". One thing this organization does is find out who isn't getting with the program.
Hey, I'll sign up. Can I start carrying my gun?, and wearing a badge around town?(Or maybe just an armband will do?) Do I get to pull people over, and tell cops what to do also? Sounds like it could be fun.
But seriously, I wonder what the rules will be? Probably similar to our local litterbug patrol here in SW FL. Write down their license number, so the local authorities can send a notice that they "have been observed" and if "observed" again there may be hell to pay. Just a form of authoritarian intimidation, that can be very easily abused, by the jerk that "thinks" you cut him off at the stop sign yesterday......Just like the Hitler youth, it can be as benign as a group of boyscouts, or as insidious as a goon squad of the SS, depends on who makes the decision when graduation day takes place, and how they feel they should be deployed........
Policing is best left to the police, it's what they do, and they have rules to follow. When anybody can start making accusations, and allegations based upon being a member of an "elite" group, even the police will not be safe from said allegations. Have we learned nothing from history?
We already have the national guard. This sounds a bit too much like a soviet secret police.
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