National Secret Police (Stasi) Force?or just military protecting us @home

[papau]

But then who remembers the military doing domestic surveillance during the Vietnam War era, and the thousands of files on Americans guilty of nothing more than opposing the war?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/05/AR2005070501669.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/washpost/20050706/ts_washpost/military_expands_homeland_efforts/nc:716;_ylt=AkTYX8gmi7O7mBF755fCf6V34T0D;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Military Expands Homeland Efforts By Bradley Graham, Washington Post Staff Writer
Wed Jul 6, 1:00 AM ET



A new Pentagon strategy for securing the U.S. homeland calls for expanded U.S. military activity not only in the air and sea -- where the armed forces have historically guarded approaches to the country -- but also on the ground and in other less traditional, potentially more problematic areas such as intelligence sharing with civilian law enforcement.


The strategy is outlined in a 40-page document (titled "Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support," signed June 24 by acting Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England), approved last month, that marks the Pentagon's first attempt since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to present a comprehensive plan for defending the U.S. homeland.<snip>


The document does not ask for new legal authority to use military forces on U.S. soil, but it raises the likelihood that U.S. combat troops will take action in the event that civilian and National Guard forces are overwhelmed. At the same time, the document stresses that primary responsibility for domestic security continues to rest with civilian agencies.<snip>

Still, some of the provisions appear likely to draw concern from civil liberties groups that have warned against a growing military involvement in homeland missions and an erosion of long-established barriers to military surveillance and combat operations in the United States.


The document acknowledges, for instance, plans to team military intelligence analysts with civilian law enforcement to identify and track suspected terrorists. It also recognizes an expanded role for the National Guard in preparing to deal with the aftermath of terrorist attacks. And it asserts the president's authority to deploy ground combat forces on U.S. territory "to intercept and defeat threats."<snip>

[indepat]

1. Big brother will look over us and keep us safe from the enemy within

[papau]

2. I thought we ended this with Vietnam - - sigh :-(

:-(

[Jutboy]

3. Where will it stop?