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December 02, 2008 04:27 PM UTC
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This is what scares me about our government.
http://conservativeforchange.b…
Remember the riots after the Rodney King trial? Remember New orleans after Katrina? There are times when local law enforcement is overwhelmed because it cannot be kept staffed to handle those very rare events.
That’s what the National Guard is for. The State Militia, remember?
They should be here dealing with that shit instead of over in Iraq.
There is a reason we are so fussy about absolutely no domestic role for our miltary. It’s why we don’t have military coups. The answer to emergencies like Katrina is to go back to using the Guard for it’s intended domestic purpose instead of using it to paper over troop shortages when we go to war without a draft. And we need to make sure that privately contracted mercenaries are NEVER used in domestic situations.
Maybe the answer is more training for the national guard. Maybe it is using the Army. But what would we do today if an atomic bomb went off in one of our cities?
Do we have every state build up their National Guard to handle a small nuke in one of their cities?
Add in the fact that the military has become over the last 30 years a much more technical operation. You don’t have time with the 1 weekend/month and 2 weeks a year to train the National Guard to anything close to the same level of skill.
I agree that we need to approach this very carefully. But things are different from how they were 30 years ago and I think we need to take that into account.
No more Kent States!
and the the Shah of Iran isn’t seeking asylum in the United States, either.
I read the full story yesterday.
Maybe the Posse Commitatus Act is outdated, I’m willing to entertain that possibility. Maybe only the Feds (dang gummint!) are the only ones who can provide the response needed to new threats.
OTOH, can’t the National Guard be less of an Army backup and more of a locally controlled federal emergency force? Sort of like the Coast Guard.
I guess a lot of the good/bad ratio is how these forces are controlled.
At this point I am very wary.
I mean, I’m not the most trusting of the government when it comes to things like this either, but what are they going to do that would be anything but helping people?
Are they going to lay siege to a city and nobody is going to find out? Are they going to take people from their homes and put them in concentration camps? Maybe they’ll take our guns away and make us become vegetarians?
Keep in mind the next Commander in Chief has a deep respect for the constitution, unlike the current occupant.
With the Nat’l Guard stretched too thin, I wish that we could have had something like this when Katrina happened.
They finally did send the Army in – but much later than they should have.
But do you think, as Hamilton and Parsing seem to, that this force threatens our freedom in any way?
Why would a fellow American sworn to uphold the constitution be a threat?
ok…there’s a little bait in that comment for Bush bashers. Seriously, don’t you trust your sisters and brothers, cause if we are talking conspiracies then today you’d have to have Hollywood involved deeply and a false flag plot to jump start it all.
Posse Comitatus is NOT out-dated. Just trusting to a future of good intentions in high places is the height of foolishness.
Redstateblues, you cite the respect for the constitution of our next Commander in Chief. Do you want to just trust that every subsequent Commander in Chief will share that respect? Even after Bush?
And why do we have to accept that the Guard must be stretched too thin in wartime? During the Vietnam war only a tiny percentage of guard units left their domestic duties. We beefed up troops with the draft and used the Guard for its intended purpose. Whether or not you like the idea of a draft, doing away with Posse Comitatus poses too great a threat.
We are what we are because we trust laws, not individuals in power. And we have come too close for comfort to losing our way of life and government under the anti-American, anti-constitutional Bush regime already. We can’t throw any more of it away.
Reinstate the draft and see if there’s more resistance than there is to this.
The defense of civil liberties is expensive, and the cost includes vigilance.
There might be a need for the kind of response this redeployment explicitly envisions, but to dismiss reservations because the “right people” will be in charge makes a mockery of the rule of law. There’s a reason both the left and the right hold Posse Comitatus dear, and to propose subverting it because it’s convenient or easy demonstrates how fragile its protections are.
After all, there’s nothing wrong with warrantless eavesdropping, so long as Obama is president and we can trust him not to abuse it, right? How about torture, if we’re convinced we’ll only use it when it’s really, really necessary?
has a deep respect for the constitution? So? For one thing, we’re a government of laws, not men, and no men are angels, which is why we have a Constitution. If the proposal requires having a former constitutional law scholar as president to be acceptable, then it’s an unacceptable proposal. If it’s fine no matter who is president, then that’s another thing entirely.
The paranoia over this is silly.
of a 130-year tradition at the heart of how we conceive of the relationship between the civilian and the military in this country. Paranoia might be silly but vigorous skepticism isn’t.
The Boosh Misadministration.
Rights? What rights? You don’t have no stinkin’ rights.
As soon as Obama sets up Camp X-Ray in Broomfield because of a quote-unquote-catastrophe, I’ll grab my guns and join the People’s Militia Expeditionary Force with you.
So I’ll ask for him. Shouldn’t you be walking Johnathan’s dog? How’s that wide stance thing working out for you?
🙁
Anyone know anything on that front? I wish I could e-mail him, but I never got his non-DP address.
someone else sent an email to his AOL account (same as DP, but with aol.com) and didn’t get a response.
He’s apparently fine, just doesn’t like us.
*I’m tearing up a little*
If you do, you could go to jail. Did anyone else know there is criminal libel?
“The statute allows prosecution for speech “tending to blacken the memory of one who is dead” or to “expose the natural defects of one who is alive, and thereby to expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule.” Criminal libel carries a punishment of up to 18 months in prison.”
I think Wayne Allard could have a case, on both counts. (Just kidding…don’t arrest me, I look fat in horizontal stripes:)
Well, you can’t go to jail. If you do, our political party is dead in the water. I mean, we have what? 3 members?
Bob? If so, there’s only two of us left.
Our numbers are dwindling.
To sue all of us who have exposed her natural defects and thereby exposed her to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule.
What is check-in time for the graybar hotel?
At this point, it’s the worst long running joke in politics.
But we’ve certainly done our part to blacken the memory of one who is politically dead. The Weld County prosecutors could be trying to serve Polsters as we speak …
When do we get the explosive diary?
part of Middle’s campaign to win yesterday? To pump paranoia?
I know you well enough by now to know you’re a good guy (or gal.)
skeptism, I decided to link a few more things and then it just turned into a larger question so it’s gone in a different direction.
By Friday. That’s my promise. I am posting it Friday.
It’s also a nearly 200-year old law. This should have been brought up as civil libel.
Definitely makes me cautious of writing certain things here, because if a couple squabbling can create a scenario where this law would be enforced, I can’t imagine what people like Dick Wadhams would do with it.
Boy, I can.
everything we say about him is true. 🙂
He’ll press charges!! Or come to your house and talk. I’d take the jail time.
Prison never sounded so sweet.
for criminal libel, as opposed to its civil cousin.
Would it be libel then?
In Canada, the UK, and Australia you CAN be charged with hate speech. You cannot write “I hate Muslims” on your website without legal consequences. PC’ism amok.
A recent case had a ten year old boy tell an immigrant women something like “Damn Paki’s, go home.” She whacked him a stick hard, and HE was charged with a crime!
Thank the Goddess and our Founding Fathers for that pesky first amendment. So far, so good.
I asked this previously and did not get an answer so I’m trying again.
Are there limitis on who/what can donate money for initiatives?
I understand the limits it puts on contributions to candidates, but does this put in limites for groups for and against initiatives?
Because didn’t Coors have a bunch of company money dumped in to 47?
…or at least, that’s what I’ve heard.
…I’ve found that occasionally, very very rarely, what is on the net is incorrect.
…that’s not fair.
Where’s our shocking report about backstabbing elitist bloggers? Everybody and their mother’s brother are waiting.
I realize this won’t get it written any faster, but I’m enjoying the suspense. Maybe some more tidbits? Please? If you knew me you’d know what a charming and persuasive person I am…
n/t
If you have time, watch the whole thing. It’s too bad he hates campaigning. We’d have been in good hands.
Fred’s hurtin’.
YOUR SAVINGS! Now we can tax and spend ourselves into inflationary bailout schemes.
Ye Ha!
God he’s so boring. I need to stay awake today to do some work.
I still remember when he was a prospective candidate, and his poll numbers were higher than any Republican actually running. I predicted early on that he would immediately tank upon entering the race. Turned out much better than my Mitt Romney prediction.
Margaret Carlson was being interviewed about him, and she called him “handsome.” My wife and I were shocked, and from that point on we always referred to him as “Handsome Fred.” Little did we know Carlson’s creepy stalker history with him.
All this is to say, I don’t take Handsome Fred seriously. Can you sum it up without sounding like Foghorn Leghorn on barbiturates?
in Die Hard 2. I’ll give him that.
I banish thee with my new power!
(Do I have the authority to do that yet?)
Then you can bring down the hammer on all of us.
You can write them up in Dickipedia.
Er, wrong link. Seems it’s a .org, not a .com
Try this one.
I left this running while I read another page that made sense, and his voice sounded just like Gregory Peck’s. I heard Atticus Finch saying Fred Thompson drivel, and now I’m scared.
Um…no.
Reid
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at least not in the summertime.
LOL!
I guess it’s been a tough four years for politically charmed Rep. Sen Mel Martinez. He’s already looking to spend more time with his family after 2010.
Say, aren’t Republicans the party of hard workers?
http://voices.washingtonpost.c…
and boy am I tired.
How are those beaches?:)
Good to see you in the forum from time to time.
Well, the beaches are pretty, but I’ve only been out there a couple of times. Dipped the treads of my mountain bike into the Gulf, I think it was a lot happier at 12,000 feet. I know I was.
and will you be coming back to the mountains?
I’m in Sarasota, FL, about 50 miles south of Tampa.
I fear I am stuck here for any number of years.
Sometimes, especially before I wake, I have memories of Colorado and I ache.
and then I remembered the beach at Sarasota. The sand was like flour it was so soft. Enjoy your warm winter then come and visit next summer!
Polls close in about 45 minutes. Turnout is apparently light.
Does that benefit Republicans?
chambliss 64%
Martin 36%
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