It is officially "disappeared"--the most curious paragraph from an O-and-Savior speech of July 2 in Colorado Springs.
Here are the paragraphs leading to the "disappeared" text:
We'll send more college graduates to teach and mentor our young people. We'll call on Americans to join an Energy Corps to conduct renewable energy and environmental cleanup projects in their neighborhoods. We'll enlist veterans to help other vets find jobs and support, and to be there for our military families. And we'll also grow our Foreign Service, open consulates that have been shuttered, and double the size of the Peace Corps by 2011 to renew our diplomacy.
And we'll use technology to connect people to service. We'll expand USA Freedom Corps to create an online network where Americans can browse opportunities to volunteer. You'll be able to search by category, time commitment, and skill sets; you'll be able to rate service opportunities, build service networks, and create your own service pages to track your hours and activities. This will empower more Americans to craft their own service agenda, and make their own change from the bottom up
So far, standard Democrat 'make-work' stuff. Echoes of Clinton's "AmeriCorps".
But then Obama went on with this curious paragraph:
"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."
A "civilian" "national-security force"? As powerful as the military? As well-funded?
Fred caught that, and a most interesting discussion followed. Obama's words could be interpreted benignly--as a stupid off-script remark. OR they could be interpreted in a far different way, as a call to establish an American Stasi.
In the combox, the Reliable Lefty Folkbum managed to make it worse:
"...the Peace Corps actually has a lot to do with national security. The Corps members do not just go out and build aquifers and whatnot. They are goodwill ambassadors...The same for domestic service: The stronger, healthier, smarter, more energy independent we are, the better we will be able to face the as-yet unseen challenges of the next century..."
So Folkbum would have this "domestic security force" be concerned with 'health,' 'schooling,' and 'energy use.' Another way to put it is that the "security force" will enforce the ObamaState's requirements for 'healthy living,' 'energy allocations,' and 'proper education.'
To be sure, Folkbum immediately invoked Godwin when Stasi was mentioned, demonstrating that Folkbum, a teacher, can toss anachronisms as fast as anyone...
Curious omission, no?
News flash for folkbum; the Stasi wasn't formed until after World War II by the Communist East Germans. Last I checked, Godwin's Law applied to Nazi references.
ReplyDeleteOf course, he could finally be acknowledging that, except for the pure hatred of Russians by the Nazis and the pure hatred of the Germans by the Soviets, Nazism and Communism are quite close.
So Folkbum would have this "domestic security force" be concerned with 'health,' 'schooling,' and 'energy use.' Another way to put it is that the "security force" will enforce the ObamaState's requirements for 'healthy living,' 'energy allocations,' and 'proper education.'
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Yes, all those people who have been successfully abducted, packed off to camps, and re-educated by AmeriCorps in the last decade or so were just practice for what AmeriCorps will do under Obama!
ReplyDeleteParanoid, much?
(And, yeah, I was off by a decade in my history. Apologies to all the good Nazis I slandered by associating them with the Stasi.)