History Repeats Itself?

A Georgia Congressman wonders out loud:

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.

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," Obama said in July. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Just as I wrote back on July 18th, Obama knows he cannot lawfully utilize the American military domestically. A "national security force," call me paranoid or not, cannot bode well for the American people at all -- a force equally as strong as the military.

You must ask yourself again: what's the point? President-elect Obama has lost faith in all local police and sheriff forces nationwide? Every one of them? Since July? And what was that one predicating event, do you think? Any one event? Any reason to negate police forces answerable to their local levels?

I can only see one point, myself. Do what I call the "Logical Extension."

What's your Logical Extension?

BZ