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To: maine-iac7
Obama plans on having a NATIONAL POLICE FORCE and says it's to have as many police as are currently in the military - and with as much funding.

The Founders were much afraid of the idea of "standing armies", if you read the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Papers. The reason they didn't like standing armies was because the military was used to enforce the will of the King against his subjects in the colonial days. Their ideal was to have the federal government be UNABLE to enforce its will without the active cooperation of state and local authorities

Their ideal was for there to be a militia composed of all the people, which could enforce the laws the people agreed with, and oppose measures that they considered tyranny, and for the government to not have standing, full time forces that could be used to oppress the people.

40 posted on 10/11/2008 12:22:10 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: PapaBear3625

The Founders - “and for the government to not have standing, full time forces that could be used to oppress the people.”

exactly. We have the military to defend us from foreign enemies, the coast guard to protect our shores and the individual states their National Guards with the individual governors as their commanders.

WE the PEOPLE are to compose the “home militia”

This man and his puppeteers must be stopped.


79 posted on 10/11/2008 4:33:05 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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