Obama's Dignity Battalions?

Just what was Barack Hussein Obama talking about when he advocated a civilian national security force?

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

Now, let's think about that. We spend half a trillion dollars a year on our armed forces. Does Obama really intend to spend that much on a civilian security force? And where in the Constitution does the federal government have the authority to impose such a security force on the nation? I can't find it.

Interestingly, Team Obama has since airbrushed that reference out of transcripts of the speech, but Babalu found it.

And, of course, it's on YouTube, a medium that not even Barack Obama has yet managed to transcend.



Babalu compares Obama's National Civilian Security Force to Fidel Castro's Committee for the Defense of the Revolution. I can't help but recall the former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega's "Dignity Battalions."

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