Every dictatorship requires a politically motivated military arm. Hitler created the Schutzstaffel (SS), Mussolini had his Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (National Security Volunteer Militia), Stalin had the Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD), or People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, and Obama-run America may one day have something called the “Civilian National Security Force.”
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” Obama said. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”
To be fair to Senator Obama, the context of this speech was in discussion of his plans for significant expansion of national community service organizations. Once a community organizer, always a community organizer.
Obama plans to double the Peace Corps’ budget by 2011, and expand AmeriCorps, USA Freedom Corps, VISTA, YouthBuild Program, and the Senior Corps. Plus, he proposes to form a Classroom Corps, Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, Veterans Corps, Homeland Security Corps, Global Energy Corps, and a Green Jobs Corps. For a good review of these proposals check out The American Thinker.
There are two scary elements to this:
- Fundamental misunderstanding of “national security.” Obama’s proposed expansion of these nice-sounded service corps come at the trade-off of vastly reducing the military budget. In an analysis of the candidates spending plans you see that Obama intends to reduce the Defense budget by about $80 billion, or 16%. This is just what he is willing to say on the campaign trail, but overall he has demonstrated a clear distain for the armed forces, treating the most important function of government as nothing more than a hindrance. Fanatic volunteers of the Global Energy Corp or Green Jobs Corps will not protect our borders.
- The expansion of ideologically motivated organizations with federal funding and political allegiance can pose serious risks to freedom. Be very wary of any hint of arming these groups, particularly the Homeland Security Corps! One day we may wake up to hear of our own Night of the Long Knives.
Ladies and gentlemen, I know this sounds alarmist, but freedom is so fragile and history has provided far too many examples of eloquent-sounding dictators stripping it from people who willingly throw their hands in the air and beg for enslavement. We must be supremely cautious in the face of people seeking power!
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