[Travis McGee]

End of Sowell’s essay-—CW2 Ping

Reportedly, the FBI and the Defense Department are cooperating with the Department of Homeland Security in investigations of returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. That people who have put their lives on the line for this country are made the target of what is called the Vigilant Eagle program suggests that this administration might be more of a threat than the people they are investigating.

All this activity takes on a more sinister aspect against the background of one of the statements of Barack Obama during last year’s election campaign that got remarkably little attention in the media. He suggested the creation of a federal police force, comparable in size to the military.

Why such an organization? For what purpose?

Since there are state and local police forces all across the country, an FBI to investigate federal crimes and a Department of Justice to prosecute those who commit them, as well as a Defense Department with military forces, just what role would a federal police force play?

Maybe it was just one of those bright ideas that gets floated during an election campaign. Yet there was no grassroots demand for any such federal police nor any media clamor for it, so there was not even any political reason to suggest such a thing.

What would be different about a new federal police force, as compared to existing law enforcement and military forces? It would be a creation of the Obama administration, run by people appointed from top to bottom by that administration — and without the conflicting loyalties of those steeped in existing military traditions and law enforcement traditions.

In short, a federal police force could become President Obama’s personal domestic political army, his own storm troopers.

Perhaps there will never be such a federal police force. But the targeting of individuals and groups who believe in some of the fundamental values on which this country was founded, and people who have demonstrated their patriotism by volunteering for military service, suggests that this potential for political abuse is worth watching, as Obama tries to remake America to fit his vision.

[wardaddy]

Ich bin eine extremistische

[river rat]

I’m sure the good people of Germany never envisioned that their charismatic, manipulative, lying, racist, outsider with his own gang of thugs in Brown Shirts would ultimately get 10s of millions of Germans killed...

Obama has been and runs with the same sort of violent folks.. Obama could EASILY be our Hitler. Hitler also thought of himself as a SOCIALIST and CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE.

Don’t think it can’t happen here...
It most certainly can, and the first steps have already been taken — if you look at this staffing selections, his earliest acts in the first 100 days, his insatiable spending to effect the redistribution of wealth to HIS constituents....etc, etc, etc...

[Centurion2000]

bttt

[papertyger]

That people who have put their lives on the line for this country are made the target of what is called the Vigilant Eagle program suggests that this administration might be more of a threat than the people they are investigating.

I'm reminded of the scene in Robert Duval's "Stalin" where he wipes out the officer corps that brought him to power...