remember *The*National*Guard*??? as i recall, they were supposed to do stuff like this...oh, right, they're all overseas fighting wars.
this sounds like an excuse to expand the military and that is all. probably because the politicians can't convince us any other way, since the current wars are unpopular, they are reinventing the natl guard. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do we need this? I don't think so. > > Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security > > By Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson > Washington Post Staff Writers > Monday, December 1, 2008; A01 > > The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the > United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond > to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according > to Pentagon officials. > > The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland > security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after > years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said. > > There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil > liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new > homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly > undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law > restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement. > > More here: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2008/11/30/AR2008113002217_pf.html >
