Obama's 'civilian national security force'

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In talking about his plans to double the size of the Peace Corps and nearly quadruple the size of AmeriCorps and the size of the nation's military services, he made this rather shocking (and chilling) pledge: "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."

What does it mean?

If we're going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn't this rather a big deal?
I thought Democrats generally believed the U.S. spent too much on the military. How is it possible their candidate is seeking to create some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?

The U.S. Army alone has nearly 500,000 troops. That doesn't count reserves or National Guard. In 2007, the U.S. Defense budget was $439 billion.
Is Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and more expensive than that?

Who will Obama appoint to administer this new "civilian national security force"? Where will the money come from? Where in the Constitution does he see justification for the federal government creating such a domestic army?

(We need to get Obama to clarify this statement. This does seem to be an extention of the "rent a mobs" following Mr Obama, and the green police that Al Gore is assembling. Of course this is extremely dangerous to liberty! So ask yourself this... Will you TRUST Obama (and his "advisors") to retain a modern day Gestapo, or "Secret State Police"? With all we have heard lately, and Obama going to address the Germans, one gets the creepy idea that Bush Jr was nothing more than a ruse to get us to something much, much worse!)

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Obama's 'civilian national security force'