Why is government stockpiling guns, ammo?
Exclusive: Joseph Farah examines Obama's plan for 'civilian
national security force'
by Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO
of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. He is the author or
co-author of 13 books, including his latest, "The Tea
Party Manifesto," and his classic, "Taking America
Back," now in its third edition and 14th printing. Farah is the
former editor of the legendary Sacramento Union and other major-market dailies.
Is
the U.S. government getting ready for a war we don’t know about?
And,
if that’s why Washington is stockpiling massive amounts of ammunition (hollow
points, by the way), why is Homeland Security doing the buying instead of the
Defense Department?
I
have some theories.
Here’s
what he actually said at a campaign stop in Colorado July 2, 2008: “We cannot
continue to rely only 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.”
Could
what we see happening now in the Department of Homeland Security be the beginning
of Obama’s dream and our constitutional nightmare?
We’ve
learned more about Obama’s vision since then. Maybe it’s time for a review:
- He made the campaign promise to build this $439 billion
domestic army, but all references to the initiative were inexplicably
deleted from the copy of his speech posted on his website while others
mysteriously disappeared from transcripts of the speech distributed by the
campaign. That was strange – and ominous.
- At the time, I had never heard anyone use the phrase
“civilian national security force” before. But I did a little homework and
found out where it originated. It was first proposed by then Bush
administration Defense Secretary Robert Gates. On that basis alone, I
accurately predicted that, if elected, Obama would name Gates as his own
defense secretary. Needless to say, when that appointment came
to pass, no media outlet bothered to interview me about my foresight.
- Still during the campaign of 2008, I suggested that what Obama had in mind might be something very sinister indeed – perhaps “some kind of domestic Big Brother program.”
We
never heard another mention of Obama’s “civilian national security force”
again. Not in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012.
But
that brings us up to 2013 and the highly unusual stockpiling of firearms and
ammo by Homeland Security – firearms and ammo that Obama would like to deny to
ordinary citizens who are not members of his domestic army.
Well,
I hate to say it, but I may have predicted this, too.
I
wasn’t joking. I was deadly serious – so serious, in fact, that I did something
I pledged I would never do: Vote for Mitt Romney. It was a matter of
self-defense and self-preservation. I said then that a second term of Obama
might mean we would never see another free and fair election in America. (I’m
not even sure we saw one in 2012.) I suggested due process would go the way of
the horse and buggy. I said I expected Obama would move to shut down or destroy
all independent media. I even speculated that his biggest critics would
eventually be rounded up in the name of national security.
Think
about it.
Why
does the civilian Department of Homeland Security need billions of
rounds of ammunition?
This
is the agency that is responsible for policing the border. But it doesn’t.
This
is the agency that is responsible for catching terrorists. But it doesn’t.
So
why does Homeland Security need so many weapons and enough hollow-point rounds
to plug every American six times?
Maybe
this is the “civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as
strong, just as well-funded” as the Defense Department.
These
words – “civilian national security force” – have haunted me ever since I first
read them.
Obama
has never explained what he meant.
He’s
never been called to account for that remark.
Doesn’t
this sound like police-state talk to you?
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. No one knows
what the budget is today because Congress stopped passing budgets when Obama
took office.
Is
Obama serious about creating some kind of domestic security force bigger and
more expensive than that? Is this part of his second-term agenda?
He has also set up, as I have
reported, a new homeland security bureaucracy to operate under his own
direction.
I
think it’s worth recalling here that just over a year ago both houses of
Congress unwisely passed the defense reauthorization bill that killed the
concept of habeas corpus – legislation that authorized the president to use the
U.S. military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens without
charge or trial.
That
legislation would empower a lame-duck Obama to use all of the power of the
federal government – constitutional and unconstitutional – to target his
political enemies.
If
any Republican, conservative, independent journalist, pro-life activist,
returning veteran, gun-rights activist, constitutionalist, Bible believer or
critic of Obama thinks they will be safe in a second term under this would-be
despot, they had better think again – real fast.
The
“civilian national security force” is not here to protect any of them. It’s
here to destroy the opposition. It’s here to destroy liberty. It’s here to
destroy the Constitution.
Why is Homeland Security
stockpiling big supplies of guns and ammo?
·
It's
being prudent, and I applaud this action
·
It's
just expected preparation to protect our nation and its borders
·
It
wants to make sure it has enough if the economy tanks even more
·
Since
when has the federal government been right about any of its actions?
·
I
don't know, but it's not some big "conspiracy" to get worked up over
·
I
don't know, but I fear a government that would arm itself against its own
citizens
·
Given
the amount of guns and ammo American citizens are buying, it has become an arms
race
·
Obama
is just further "stimulating" the only industry that has grown on his
watch
·
The
government obviously wants to prevent private citizens from having ammo
·
Homeland
Security is arming itself to crush any patriots who might start a Second
Revolution
·
The
White House is planning to arm its "civilian national security force"
·
Obama
is preparing to declare martial law
·
Other
Why is
Homeland Security stockpiling big supplies of guns and ammo?
·
Obama is preparing to
declare martial law (45%, 901 Votes)
·
Homeland Security is
arming itself to crush any patriots who might start a Second Revolution (29%,
584 Votes)
·
I don't know, but I fear
a government that would arm itself against its own citizens (12%, 230 Votes)
·
The White House is
planning to arm its "civilian national security force" (11%, 216
Votes)
·
The government obviously
wants to prevent private citizens from having ammo (1%, 25 Votes)
·
Other (less than 1%, 11
Votes)
·
Given the amount of guns
and ammo American citizens are buying, it has become an arms race (less than
1%, 8 Votes)
·
I don't know, but it's
not some big "conspiracy" to get worked up over (less than 1%, 3
Votes)
·
Since when has the
federal government been right about any of its actions? (less than 1%, 3 Votes)
·
Obama is just further
"stimulating" the only industry that has grown on his watch (less
than 1%, 1 Votes)
·
It wants to make sure it
has enough if the economy tanks even more (less than 1%, 1 Votes)
·
It's being prudent, and
I applaud this action (less than 1%, 1 Votes)
·
It's just expected preparation
to protect our nation and its borders (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,984
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