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WASHINGTON (AP) - A Republican congressman from Georgia said Monday he fears that President-elect Obama will establish a Gestapo-like security force to impose a Marxist dictatorship.
"It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he's the one who proposed this national security force," Rep. Paul Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. "I'm just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may—may not, I hope not—but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism."
Broun cited a July speech by Obama that has circulated on the Internet in which the then-Democratic presidential candidate called for a civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military.
"That's exactly what Hitler did in Nazi Germany and it's exactly what the Soviet Union did," Broun said. "When he's proposing to have a national security force that's answering to him, that is as strong as the U.S. military, he's showing me signs of being Marxist."
Obama's comments about a national security force came during a speech in Colorado in which he called for expanding the nation's foreign service.
I agree. There are similar precedents, friends tell me that during the Iranian revolution, Iranians didn't want to shoot Iranians, so the revolutionaries imported enforcers from Palestine to shoot Iranians.
Originally posted by OnTheFelt
Originally posted by sanchoearlyjones
Star, and flag.
Funny they've been doing this for some time. Just on a small test scale.
The thing I'd see as being very deviant is We in the USA don't have 400k soldiers to spare.
So, to myself, this looks like the implementation of UN troops. I'm totally serious for a long time I've learned the phonetics for hello, yes, no in a couple other languages.
People really need to wake up; our government has been hyjacked, and we are looking at what amounts to a rogue piracy.
Agreed! And why do you think they want to use foreign UN troops....I'll tell you, do you think Fran from Germany really gives a rat's a s s about putting a bullet through Joe American Schmoe? Hell no he doesn't.
It sure conveniently drops the moral factor when you think about it.
Originally posted by Dbriefed
There are similar precedents, friends tell me that during the Iranian revolution, Iranians didn't want to shoot Iranians, so the revolutionaries imported enforcers from Palestine to shoot Iranians.
Historically, Americans haven't trusted the military to do domestic police work. The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, passed in response to abuses by federal troops in the South after the Civil War, prohibits the use of the military "to execute the laws" of the U.S. That's been widely interpreted as a ban on searching, arresting or spying on U.S. civilians by federal troops.
But the law has been violated, notably during the Vietnam War, when Army operatives spied on antiwar activists on campuses. Meanwhile, Congress has eased the law's limits to allow the military to help prosecute the war on drugs.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House sought to further loosen restrictions to allow the military to take on a new domestic-security role. It has mostly been rebuffed. In May the House refused to approve a White House-backed proposal to give the Central Intelligence Agency and the military authority to scrutinize personal and business records of U.S. citizens. And the Senate last year blocked funding for a Pentagon project known as the Total Information Awareness program, which was supposed to collect a vast array of information on individuals, including medical, employment and credit-card histories.
The issue of an expanding military role in domestic affairs also surfaced last year with the Pentagon's creation of the Northern Command, or Northcom, based in Colorado Springs, Colo. The new command, the first such military command designed to protect the U.S. homeland from a terrorist attack, has responsibility for the U.S, Canada, Mexico, portions of the Caribbean and U.S. coastal waters. Northcom's commander, Gen. Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, is the first general since the Civil War with operational authority exclusively over military forces within the U.S.
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
Agreed! And why do you think they want to use foreign UN troops....I'll tell you, do you think Fran from Germany really gives a rat's a s s about putting a bullet through Joe American Schmoe? Hell no he doesn't.
Originally posted by Zosynspiracy
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler
I'm 29 and I would stand by you and my fellow Americans in getting rid of our tyrannical government in a heartbeat! I think you're right. The really sad thing is I fear our country will turn on each other i.e. liberals vs. conservatives, democrats vs. republicans instead of turning on the powers that be. We are so divided it's scary. People have NO CLUE just how disastrous the US Civil War was. There is going to be a second one for sure. If the recent riots in the Chino State prison in CA are any indication of what a full out civil war would be like..........it won't be pretty. The government would hire prisoners with nothing to lose, mercenaries. The US Government is in fact insane and will do anything in its power to spark war and destroy dissenters.
My question for everyone is what wealthy, freedom loving Americans are going to step up and support our cause? I have yet to meet very many wealthy people that really care about preserving American constitution and freedom for the little guy and tice hthe middle class. Without money and backing a revolution will be doomed. Just look at the South during the Civil War.