Posted on 10/19/2009 1:02:53 PM PDT by Watchdog85
Senator Obama was nearly 17 minutes into his July 2, 2008, speech in Colorado Springs, Colorado when he deviated from his pre-released script and performed without the teleprompter net saying:
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
In January, without any recognizable corporate media coverage, Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat, introduced H.R. 675.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h675/show
The bill would amend title 10 of the United States Code and extend to civilian employees of the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. The bill was referred to the Armed Services Committee on January 26, 2009. Filner’s bill would amend the United States code with the following: “Sec. 1585b. Law enforcement officers of the Department of Defense: authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms… for any offense against the United States.”
The Posse Comitatus Act, passed on June 18, 1878, limits the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits members of the federal uniformed services from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property within the United States. H.R. 675 sidesteps Posse Comitatus by defining “law enforcement officer of the Department of Defense” as “a civilian employee of the Department of Defense,” including federal police officers, detectives, criminal investigators, special agents, and game law enforcement officers classified by the Office of Personnel Management Occupational Series 0083 (the United States Office of Personnel Management is described as an “independent agency” of the U.S. government that manages the civil service of the federal government). I. e. the authorized personnel is not even military servicemen, but the “chosen” civilians mob.
The last move on H. R. 675 happened on Mar 15th when it was referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. The reader might think that this is the end of it, but…
Circumventing any legislative process, just THREE days in new administration reign, "Civilian National Security Force" was already established by Department of Defense Directive 1404.10 (Number 1404.10). This Directive establishes a "DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce" and rescinds a prior directive dealing with the emergency use of civilian personnel.
The new 1404.10 cancels the prior directive of the same designation ("Emergency-Essential (E-E) DoD U.S. Citizen Civilian Employees"), which was issued in 1992 under President Clinton. The 1992 directive specifically deals with overseas deployments of civilian personnel. It does not mention terms like "restoration of order" or "stability operations", prominently featured in the new directive.
In fact, those functions are central to the mission of President Obama's new DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce:
Members of the DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce shall be organized, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to deploy in support of combat operations by the military; contingencies; emergency operations; humanitarian missions; disaster relief; restoration of order; drug interdiction; and stability operations of the Department of Defense in accordance with DoDD 3000.05...
The 1992 directive mentions the term "overseas" no fewer than 33 times. The 2009 directive does not mention the term "overseas" in the body of the directive even once.
While we’re researching a dozen of 1000-page Health Care reform bills, which at worst will kick in in 2013, rallying against Tax&Trade, which nobody even understands, and sending petitions to our “representatives”, who do not listen and simply need to be thrown out of offices next year, the “Civilian” ARMY is quietly being built behind our backs. Who can guess what will be its role at Elections 2010?
Sorry, your rationality will be overlooked by those seeing conspiracy in a bowl of pea soup.
We saw this same crap in the 1990s with Clinton - Russian tanks moving on flatcars, concentration camps, electric guillotines and Chinese troops massed in Mexico.
If the fat whales in ACORN are king obuma’s “army,” I fear I won’t be sufficiently armed because I don’t have harpoons in my arsenal.
HR675 doesn’t even have any cosponsors!
Actually, you were the one that wove the two together by bringing up cooks, etc. If there is nothing notable, what would be the need for legislation?
This is another reason why BO is anxious to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. They have no allegiance to the U.S., therefore wouldn’t have any problem going after American citizens especially since they would be paid more than they do in their home country by becoming part of BO’s brown shirts.
I hope they wear bright uniforms so we can walk up and say hi.
And you know what they are using for “Miracle Grow”, right???
To me it just kinda sucks that the next worse enemy we have against the citizens of this country is our own government...Second only to islamic extremists...
(For example: unlawful assembly - normally local police should be able to handle this just fine, but the DOD is given power to arrest in this situation).
Any feedback would be great since It's good to read both sides. Thx.
Betin they will prefer to wear SWAT black, gotta impress da hos and bros when they ain’t on da job.
We Rednecks same as those old Minutemen won’t give a hoot if they are in ninja black, British red coats or “seiu blue”, 30:06 all fit the same.
Wow. I really want Eric Holder or his successor deciding what this means.
I’d be happy if somebody just defined “affrays.” If I don’t know what it is, how would I know I’m doing it?
In my reading of the bill, there are no new LEO positions (job descriptions) created by the bill. The bill only authorizes DOD to hire federal investigator positions that already exist.
An example is the authorization for DOD to hire game law enforcement officers. Why would DOD need game law enforcement officers? Probably because in some areas they are having a problem with people coming onto military reservations and poaching.
Who would prosecute such people, state and locals don’t have jurisdiction. Federal game wardens work for either BLM or the USFS and they don’t have jurisdiction on a military base either nor are they present. The military can’t arrest and prosecute civilians as their enforcement authority is limited to those under the UCMJ. I expect presently they have to refer all such cases to the FBI who are probably less than enthusiastic about responding as they have better things to do.
These positions have already been established and classified by the Office of Personnel Management and they operate in just about every federal department. The bill simply authorizes DOD to now hire their own.
No federal agents/investigators have blanket federal authority. Even the FBI which probably has the broadest authority must refer drug cases to the DEA. The DEA must refer currency violations to the Secret Service and so on. Everyone must stay in their lane and big fights accrue when there is even a perception that someone is playing in someone else’s pond.
Thus a DOD investigator would have broad authority on a military base and almost none off base because some other agency would already have it covered.
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