RIDICULOUS RIGHT-WING ZOMBIE MEME ALERT
AND DISASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS:
OBAMA’S ”CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE”
MEME: Obama wants to create a private domestic army of “brownshirt” thugs “as capable as the military” to intimidate and punish non-Obots, “just like Hitler did.” This Domestic Police Force will be personally loyal to Obama, and will likely consist of Acorn operatives and Black Panthers.
STATUS: Total, complete and utter fucking bullshit
SOURCE: In a June 2008 campaign speech and a subsequent interview with Defense News, Obama endorsed the Civilian National Security Force concept championed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates under George Bush. Gates’ plan called for creation of a dedicated, non-military nation-building corps that could take the burden of reconstruction and “hearts and minds” initiatives off of the DOD’s warfighters in places like Iraq and Afghanistan:
Obama did appear to back a soft-power vision Gates began advocating in a series of speeches last fall: a more modern State Department and “civilian national security force” that could “deploy teams that combine agricultural specialists and engineers and linguists and cultural specialists who are prepared to go into some of the most dangerous areas alongside our military.”
“If we’ve got a State Department or personnel that have been trained just to be behind walls, and they have not been equipped to get out there alongside our military and engage, then we don’t have the kind of national security apparatus that is needed,” he said. “That has to be planned for; it has to be paid for. Those personnel have to be trained. And they all have to be integrated.”
Naturally, the usual groups of nancy-pants Patriots, Freepers and Frightened White People heard “civilian,” “security,” “force” and “as capable as the military” and immediately fell into the type of psychotic fugue state usually triggered by the jacket art on a “Mandingo” novel.
The meme is a staple of the wingnut blogosphere—endlessly recycled and never challenged, because it’s so perfectly plausible to them that an American President would arm and authorize millions of criminal black crack dealers to invade their homes, take their guns, rape their wives and force them to answer every question in the new Census Form.
