In Barak Obama’s July 2nd speech in Colorado Springs he put forth his ideas about defending the country not with military force (which he would scale back) but with “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
Revolutionary, no?
The full quote about downsizing the military and creating some kind of super militia:
We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives 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.
Here’s why this strikes me: I’m a civilian. I’m very interested in national defense. I’d be willing to contribute my time to such an endeavor. But here’s the problem: no matter how well funded I am I can never be as good at protecting my country as the lowest ranking member of the military could. Why? Time. I have a job that I work 40 hours per week. I also pastor a church. Furthermore, I have obligations that keep me tied up personally and socially. I simply don’t have the time to be trained nor posted in service to our country.
Now, on the other hand, the brave men and women of the U.S. military spend their entire productive week (at least 40 hours, often many hours over that number) training, studying, and practicing how to do the things necessary to defend this country.
So you tell me – how can a civilian group with necessarily limited time to train, drill, and study be anywhere close to as “strong” as the United States Military? Furthermore, why in the world would we downsize the military to create a civilian group that does what the military is already doing?
Perhaps Obama realizes the absurdity of what he proposed; those comments have mysteriously vanished from the transcript of his speech published by his campaign on The Wall Street Journal and Denver Post.
Apparently the campaign scribes aren’t very accurate transcriptionists. Good thing we have the ability to record and save both video and audio from the speech. You can see it here around the 16 minute mark:
Quite simply the idea is ludicrous, both because it would require such an incredible amount of resources to implement and that even if it were implemented it would be necessarily of such lesser quality than what it replaces that it is an entire waste of time. The bottom line here is that Obama doesn’t know what he’s talking about and continues to demonstrate he simply isn’t able to serve this country well in the Executive Office.
(HT:Obama’s ‘Big Brother’ vanishes from speech. I’m also indebted to Michael DelGiorno via Michael Dickerson for the term Obamalitia.)
Further reading:
What in the World is Obama’s “Civilian National Security Force�
Obama’s ‘civilian national security force’
Jeff,
I watched the video. Was Obama talking about forming a militia, or was he talking about the peace core?
In Him,
Jared
Both? I say that because when you describe something that will be “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” it doesn’t matter what the official name is, it has to function as a milita. That is the only term that could describe a civilian “security force”.
SS – Gestapo – That is how the SS got it’s humble beginnings…by hiring German born “pure” youth who would do whatever they were told. They were lured in with income subject to no tax, benefits provided by the newly formed regime, and with the best resources and education money can buy. You’ll have no problem organizing such a civilian force. You can use such a task force (as exist in Cuba and Venezuela) to control constitutional-challenging objectives at a grassroots level. For instance, you disarm one segment of a society via such a task force and you keep one segment armed. If you went against the “right to bear arms” at a constitutional level, you’d lose. If you come in via such a “task force” you can obscure the issue. Welcome to Socialism/Marxism folks. Obama just fooled an entire nation in getting elected to office. He is already scheduling meetings with North Korea 2 days into his acceptance of office.
I’m reading 1st Peter because I think this man could be the judgement that the book of Peter refers to. He’s an instrument of God because I believe God controls it all, but Pharoah was also such an instrument. God corrupts and hardens hearts to serve his will. I think America has turned too far from him and just like Daniel in the Book of Kings, he’s given us our King.
My grandfather who was a Marine is rolling in his grave at the fact we just put a man who will not salute the flag or cover his heart during the anthem into the office of the Presidency. He was as devout and well read a Christian as I’ve ever known and on his death-bed he could quote scripture Genesis to Revelations and tell you all about Paris Island, SC. He’d be seeing this man as the possible AntiChrist. I haven’t found the male child born in the Middle East in Obama’s history, but it would not surprise me. The man has a gift for covering up things. He speaks well to those with “itchy ears” which Paul warned us against.
I’m praying for God’s mercy under this man’s leadership. I ask his Will be done but I don’t want my small children living through persecution that they did not bring upon themselves.
militia…the exact form of army that won us our freedom…now its an evil term
well…many of u just don’t understand what obama trying to do but merely tried to put your state of mind on it.
we do have different opinion on obama idea but take this analogy for an example.
in a function where hundred of people attending but somehow a guy faint and need a CPR. but out of hundred people none of them knows how to do CPR. can u save the guy without knowing what to do it???
Its a simple analogy of what obama’s trying to do.saving some of our people when we are under threat.not only military knows how to protect the country but everybody learn to protect not just themselves, but others in the society from any danger i.e. terrorist.