Comments on: Fanatic or visionary?

By: klasko

klasko — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:33:11 +0000

I don’t like it. I am in complete agreement with John M. It violates Posse Comitatus.

By: gdsuffern

gdsuffern — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:43:32 +0000

Well, it is alarming in as much as much in the world is alarming. I think that as long as it is not expressly unconstitutional (which it could be, though not sure how) it is just amoral. However, anything in the wrong hands could be devastating.

I don’t know…

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By: hrw

hrw — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:07:45 +0000

“homeland” — who thought of this Orwellian term and why is it still used???

correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t domestic emergency response the National Guard’s responsibility. The use of the military and in the case of New Orleans, Blackwater, is a significant step in the further militarization of American society.

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By: winsometochrist

winsometochrist — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:25:37 +0000

There is no doubt we shall yet see additional (and progressively more destructive) attacks perpetrated by fanatic Islamic terrorists against the United States of America. They have declared their intention to carry them out.

The political leaders and media outlets in this country (and their naive audiences) who deny this are ostriches with their heads in the sand.

“They make it their business to flatter and deceive the people: They make the people err, lead them into mistakes, both concerning what they should do and concerning what God would do with them.
It is ill with a people when their leaders cause them to err, and those draw them out of the way that should guide them and go before them in it. They make them to err by crying peace, by telling them that they do well, and that all shall be well with them; whereas they are in the paths of sin, and within a step of ruin.”
“They cry peace, but they bite with their teeth,” (Micah 3:5) biting their own lips, as they are apt to do when they suppress something which they should speak. When they cry peace their own hearts give them the lie, and they are ready to eat their own words and to contradict themselves, but they bite with their teeth, and keep it in. They are not blind leaders of the blind, for they see the ditch before them, and yet lead their followers into it.” (Matthew Henry)

I am so very thankful God has given some men (at least SOME men!) in our nation the wisdom to foresee the danger we are in, and to prepare for it, at least minimally. Praise God, for He provides, even in the midst of this desert of leadership we have pathetically stumbled into and cannot escape for the next four years.

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By: Singletrack

Singletrack — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:54:05 +0000

We have to remember that the individuals that make up this unit are brothers and sons of the very people that would be involved in a WMD attack or other cause for deployment. I can only hope that they would use good judgement in their actions. That said, some members of Hitler’s army were brothers and sons also and they were just “following orders”. OK, maybe we should be concerned…

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By: Victoria

Victoria — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:06:43 +0000

I don’t like this at all – the explanations for having such a force need to be out-lined in specifics. A home-land national military sounds very much like it could be used as a dictatorship, in the hands of someone who chooses to exert POWER against the American people –

We need many more answers -

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By: Peter Leavitt

Peter Leavitt — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:54:02 +0000

Other than the idiotic name for it [Consequence Management Response Force], I have no problem with a federal military force trained to deal with a national emergency. The truth is that the Jihadis have not yet been flattened and are determined to do great damage to the “Great Satan,” namely America. Only the naive liberals, who believe in the eternal goodness of [fallen] man, underestimate the threat to our nation.

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By: mmacmurray

mmacmurray — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:29:57 +0000

I don’t like this either. As a country, I think we’ve given up too much of our civil liberties in the wake of 9/11. The Bush administration has been leading that effort, and Congress, for the most part, has just gone along for the ride.

So I think the watchman is a prophet.

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By: Sawgunner

Sawgunner — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:22:11 +0000

I think we already require all hospitals to conduct training on how to respond to a mass casualty incident (MCI, or as we term it in the military, a “mascal”). You have to presume that in a given area hit by any type of smuggled-in, detonated in a huge metro area WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION _all_ your police and EMS will be overwhelmed. For instance, in hospitals I’m familiar with even laundry, custodial and dietary folks would have a role in absorbing a huge influx of patients after any such mass-victim attack.
Some means of triage and routing the victims/wounded out of the immediate area will be necessary. Local and perhaps even some state govts dont have staffing to react to such an incident. And this would be something too big to be left alone to Red Cross or private church groups.

And though not a constitutional lawyer, such an event aimed at Americans here in America would be a hostile act of war and only the Federal govt can declare/conduct war response.

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By: John M.

John M. — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:12 +0000

A WHOLE BRIGADE? 47,000 MEN?

Not liking it. I think forming a unit specifically for this purpose violates Posse Comitatus.

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