11:50PM EST. Not that I'm paranoid, but when I click on the WaPo front page link to this story:
after reading this teaser:
Pentagon plans to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the U.S. by 2011 to help state and local officials respond to a domestic catastrophe.
Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson
I get this:
Just out of curiousity, what do they mean by "domestic catastrophe"? Some Goldman Sachs trader doesn't get his bonus? Hank Paulson doesn't have any more money to buff his head?
Whoops, now the link works. I wonder what the story was like before? The same, I'm sure. Anyhow:
The American Civil Liberties Union and the libertarian Cato Institute are troubled by what they consider an expansion of executive authority.
Domestic emergency deployment may be "just the first example of a series of expansions in presidential and military authority," or even an increase in domestic surveillance, said Anna Christensen of the ACLU's National Security Project. And Cato Vice President Gene Healy warned of "a creeping militarization" of homeland security.
Hey, look, as long as long as they don't quarter the troops in my house...
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Notice how they are only troubled NOW
That the Dems are gaining power? Before that, it was just hunky dory, when the Repubs had the power.
By the way, wasn't that the point of having the National Guard? You know to GUARD the NATION? So, why have the Military do it? Why not just bring back the Guard and let them go on with what they were doing before instead of dying in another country?
So many questions, so few answers.
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot." - Albert Einstein