First Step In The Military Takeover?

I took time off for a long Mother’s Day Weekend. No interent, no writing. Just enjoying time with my children and husband.
Now, back to work.

Am I just paranoid, or was this the plan all along?

The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border has crashed into the reality of Bush’s austere federal budget proposal, officials said Tuesday.
Officially approved by Bush on Dec. 17 after extensive bickering in Congress, the National Intelligence Reform Act included the requirement to add 10,000 border patrol agents in the five years beginning with 2006. Roughly 80 percent of the agents were to patrol the southern U.S. border from Texas to California, along which thousands of people cross into the United States illegally every year.
But Bush’s proposed 2006 budget, revealed Monday, funds only 210 new border agents. The shrunken increase reflects the lack of money for an army of border guards and the capacity to train them, officials said.
The law signed by Bush had a caveat that went virtually unreported at the time. A summary, published by the Senate Government Affairs Committee, required the government to increase the number of border patrol agents by at least 2,000 per year, “subject to available appropriations.” {Source}

So, we need 10,000 border guards but Mr. Bush only budgets for 210. (Much like his “No Child Left Behind”. It sounds like a good idea, but Mr. Bush does not fund it). What to do to make up the difference? Send in the National Guard.

With the administration eager to emphasize its commitment to border security, officials continued to flesh out details of Bush’s Monday night announcement that he would send up to 6,000 National Guard troops to states along the Mexican border.
Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, raised the possibility that Guard members could be sent over the objections of a state’s governor.
“If a governor truly did not want this mission performed in their state, then the option is there for the president and the secretary of defense to federalize the Guard. And then the mission would be conducted, and then it would be without the control of the governor,'’ he said. {Source}

The States have to cover the costs and Mr. Bush gets the power of having the National Guard under his control. He gets his S.S. troops. He gets the military doing the duties of our police in America. He can get around that pesky Posse Comitatus Act.

The original 1878 Posse Comitatus Act was indeed passed with the intent of removing the Army from domestic law enforcement. Posse Comitatus means “the power of the county,” reflecting the inherent power of the old West county sheriff to call upon a posse of able-bodied men to supplement law enforcement assets and thereby maintain the peace. Following the Civil War, the Army had been used extensively throughout the South to maintain civil order, to enforce the policies of the Reconstruction era, and to ensure that any lingering sentiments of rebellion were crushed. However, in reaching those goals, the Army necessarily became involved in traditional police roles and in enforcing politically volatile Reconstruction-era policies. The stationing of federal troops at political events and polling places under the justification of maintaining domestic order became of increasing concern to Congress, which felt that the Army was becoming politicized and straying from its original national defense mission.
While the act applies to the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines, including their Reserve components, it does not apply to the Coast Guard or to the huge military manpower resources of the National Guard.
The National Guard, when it is operating in its state status pursuant to Title 32 of the U.S. Code, is not subject to the prohibitions on civilian law enforcement. (Federal military forces operate pursuant to Title 10 of the U.S. Code.) In fact, one of the express missions of the Guard is to preserve the laws of the state during times of emergency when regular law enforcement assets prove inadequate. It is only when federalized pursuant to an exercise of presidential authority that the Guard becomes subject to the limitations of the Posse Comitatus Act.
The intent of the act is to prevent the military forces of the United States from becoming a national police force or guardia civil. Accordingly, the act prohibits the use of the military to “execute the laws. Execution of the laws is perceived to be a civilian police function, which includes the arrest and detention of criminal suspects, search and seizure activities, restriction of civilian movement through the use of blockades or checkpoints, gathering evidence for use in court, and the use of undercover personnel in civilian drug enforcement activities.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed in 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act was intended to prohibit Federal troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states. It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the Federal government to use the military for law enforcement.
The original act referred only to the United States Army. The Air Force was added in 1956, and the Navy and the Marine Corps have been included by a regulation of the Department of Defense. This law is often mentioned when it appears that the Department of Defense is interfering in domestic disturbances.

If the State’s Governors, which Mr. Bush is demanding do this job, do not authorize their National Guard to do engage in this, Mr. Bush can and will Nationalize them and then they will be under the control of the Department of Homeland Security.

The Bush Administration has built and is building many “Detention Centers”. What were their plans for them? They have stated that they need these to put all those illegal aliens in. To hold them until they can be evicted back to Mexico.

Do we want a military presence rounding up people? Because there is a great difference between the National Guard under the control of the State and a National Guard which is under the control of the National Government. We are becoming more and more like a third world “Banana Republic”. Once we were proud of the fact that we did not have military personal on our streets. That we were better than the rest of the world. After 911, we began to look like a military dictatorship. We had armed soldiers at the airports, train stations, Wall Street. The middle of Washington D. C. was a walled, armed military camp. This is not my America.
What will they do with these Detention Centers after the millions of Mexican’s have been sent back to Mexico? If we build them, we will use them. What group of people will be the next occupants? Gays? Muslims? Political opponents to Mr. Bush? Atheists? You?

This is the next step in the road to Fascism. Seems too much like Nazi Germany. The joining of the Government with Corporations is what Fascism is all about. Then the Storm Troopers rounding up the “enemy” and taking them to Detention Centers. The fear sold to the people, so the Government can do anything. A man in the top seat of power, who believes that he is above the law. No, more than that, He believes that he is the law!
Why now? Just now, they notice that we have an illegal alien problem? We have had this problem for years. Mr. Bush has not done anything about this for the last five years, but now it is the problem. This Cabal always has to find an issue which divides us and an issue which they can sell the fear.

Am I paranoid? No, I am afraid that I am seeing the writing on the wall.
I do not live in fear of illegal aliens. I do not live in fear of Gays. I do fear this Administration. I want my America back!