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Obama’s Scheme to Gut the Coast Guard
big government ^ | 3/17/10 | Ken Blackwell

Posted on 03/17/2010 8:08:42 AM PDT by Nachum

We should all know by now that the Obama administration’s plan to spend up to $200 million on civilian trials for terrorists is dangerous. It’s also wasteful. Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is a site perfectly suited to such trials—and detentions. If not there, then Adak, in the middle of the Aleutians would do just fine.

The Washington Post shows us why that $200 million is also a waste of money. The U.S. Coast Guard should play an important role in our homeland security. After all, that was the stated reason for moving the Coast Guard out of the U.S. Transportation Department and into the newly created Department of Homeland Security.

Liberals are forever going on about “first responders.” Well, the Coast Guard should certainly be considered first among the first responders. Yet, the Coast Guard has come on hard times. The Post recently reported that of 12 major cutters assigned to Haitian relief earlier this year, ten of them broke down. Three were forced to limp back into port.

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KEYWORDS: coast; guard; gut; scheme
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1 posted on 03/17/2010 8:08:42 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
The list, ping

Let me know if you'd like to be on or off the ping list

2 posted on 03/17/2010 8:09:29 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

The next step in Obamas regime is to remove any and all military or civilian agencies that can step in front of him to counter or threaten his agenda.


3 posted on 03/17/2010 8:11:32 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act" G.Orwell)
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To: Nachum
If Obama isn't impeached and removed from office, no one will ever be able to be impeached and removed from office.

He has been committing treason since the day he went to the Iraqis and asked them to delay any withdrawal negotiations with the US until after President Bush was out of office.

And, the DNC is an accomplice to these acts!

4 posted on 03/17/2010 8:12:37 AM PDT by Redleg Duke
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To: Nachum
A little known fact about the Coast Guard is that they are not subject to Posse Comitatus.

Past administrations have used them to skirt it.

5 posted on 03/17/2010 8:12:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Nachum

The Coast Guard rescued 8,000 people in New Orleans after Katrina and that doesn’t count.


6 posted on 03/17/2010 8:15:27 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Nachum

Nothing the antichrist does surprises me. He willguy the entire US military if he can and get away with it.


7 posted on 03/17/2010 8:15:48 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Stay armed. Buy bullets. Buy guns. Protect yourself - the government isn't.)
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To: RetiredArmy

And replace the military with his civilian military....”Just as big, just as well funded and just as well equiped”.


8 posted on 03/17/2010 8:23:07 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Nachum
We could send them to the DEW Line Ice Cap2 site on Greenland's Ice Cap.

Give them some shovels, sardines and an arrow pointing towards Mecca.

The Radadome makes the place look like a mosque so they'' feel right at home. Of course they'll have to wear Brrrrkas!

9 posted on 03/17/2010 8:25:05 AM PDT by Young Werther (wtih)
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To: Nachum
Obama's New Coast Guard....
10 posted on 03/17/2010 8:26:21 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Nachum

I remember quite clearly the shrieking on the Left about George W Bush hadn’t done enough to beef up port security in the wake of 9/11. Now, Obama is actually cutting funds to port security and we hear nothing but crickets. Typical.


11 posted on 03/17/2010 8:31:27 AM PDT by Reaganesque ("And thou shalt do it with all humility, trusting in me, reviling not against revilers.")
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To: Nachum
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is a site perfectly suited to such trials—and detentions. If not there, then Adak, in the middle of the Aleutians would do just fine.

How about Alcatraz ?

12 posted on 03/17/2010 8:32:04 AM PDT by 1066AD
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To: Redleg Duke

“If Obama isn’t impeached and removed from office, no one will ever be able to be impeached and removed from office.”

Clinton was impeached and it ended up meaning nothing.


13 posted on 03/17/2010 8:33:25 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Nachum; All
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Barack Obama, making his first visit to a Muslim nation as president, declared Monday the United States “is not and will never be at war with Islam.”

“If the political tide ever changes in the US I will stand with Islam” – Obama.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=973_1208491829

The blacks, EVEN the black caucus in congress, are questioning why ‘bama hasn't really done anything yet for the blacks. WAKE up. Islam is where his sympathies are.

He's gutting our Space Program and directing NASA to funnel the money to ‘predominantly Muslim countries” to teach them space technology - to make more Irans?

“NASA TO FOCUS ON MUSLIM OUTREACH”

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2010/feb/nasa-focus-muslim-outreach

WAKE THE F* UP, AMERICA...

14 posted on 03/17/2010 8:46:00 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: DonaldC
"Clinton was impeached and it ended up meaning nothing."

Would you please read what I wrote and then go back to school and learn what you obviously slept through!

The House of Representatives votes on Articles of Impeachment, which is tantamount to indicting the President for malfeasance. Passing these articles results in the impeachment of the president and they are forwarded to the Senate where the president is then supposed to be tried and if convicted, removed from office.

This is the process of removing the President from office...it is a two-step process.

No wonder we are losing this nation! The citizens refuse to learn the laws and the procedures and just blindly vote, send their messages by not voting, and then piss and moan about how nothing matters.

15 posted on 03/17/2010 8:49:04 AM PDT by Redleg Duke
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To: Nachum
Your typical Coast Guard Cutter couldn't pass a safety inspection for a passenger vessel. Some of the new stuff is pretty good, the small boats and such. But those HECs and MECs built in the 60’s, please. I was on a buoy tender that was 40 years old. When we tapped a jetty rock while retrieving a buoy it punched a hole in our number 1 hold. By the time they found steel thick enough to weld to to in the yard, a third of the bottom was cut out. And that buoy tender worked for 10 more years. Last I saw of her she was on e-bay for scrap. Sempar Paratus or Simply Forgot Us?
16 posted on 03/17/2010 9:14:16 AM PDT by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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To: Tax-chick

Icy ping


17 posted on 03/17/2010 9:18:48 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: RetiredArmy

Please read my tag line.


18 posted on 03/17/2010 9:23:56 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("And when the Antichrist comes, millions will love him." Remind you of anyone?)
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To: steve86; Anoreth

What you get when all the stupid people vote for once.


19 posted on 03/17/2010 9:31:25 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Mother of your new alien overlords.)
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To: 1066AD

How about Alcatraz ?

Nah, Nazi Pelosi doesn’t want them that close to her in GayBay.


20 posted on 03/17/2010 9:34:10 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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