July 09, 2008
Obama Youth Corps-Brownshirts?

From: http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php

Here's an utterly ludicrous statement from Barack Obama that's flown under the radar so far; he is planning a "civilian national security force" that is as powerful and well-funded as the US military.

Obama promised to increase AmeriCorps slots from 75,000 to 250,000 and pledged to double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011. ...

Obama had first outlined many of the proposals he talked about Wednesday during appearances in Iowa last December.

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," he said Wednesday. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded."
Notice that he also says he plans to increase the size of the active military.

Is he even aware that the Department of Defense's current base budget is close to $500 billion? Obama is going to create a civilian force with this level of funding and equipment? To do what?

Posted by John425 at July 09, 2008 02:02 PM | Email This
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1. It makes you wonder what will be some of the prerequisites be for this civilian national security force? One other thought on this is that this could be a way for Obama to skirt the Posse Comitatus Act. (Enacted in 1878 see this link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act).

Posted by: TrueSoldier on July 10, 2008 05:55 AM
2. He already has the model. It's called the Fruit of Islam, the security force of Louis Farrakan's Nation of Islam. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_Islam

Posted by: Warren Peterson on July 13, 2008 09:59 PM
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