I don't like the idea of mobilizing national guard troops within America

[NNN0LHI]

I seen it used before during the sixty's to get black people and war protesters into line. I didn't like it back then either.

Don

[katmondoo]

1. I agree. Reminds me of third world countries

Third world and dictatorships always have armed guards at checkpoints

[Missy M]

2. I agree with you......

the thought of having a military presence at our borders gives me the creeps. It reeks of martial law.

[madmom]

3. remembering Kent State and the murdering James Rhoades.

[GregD]

4. Try this on for size

Trains of tanks and cannons spotted months ago moving toward ???
Ships recent reported heading for ME (HuffingtonPost)
Halliburton gets contract to build camps within US
All telephones in US are tapped and databased
Military dispatched to the borders in the guise of border control
** making noise - about to push war with Iran

I don't like the way things are lining up.

What happens next?

When are we going to stop this before it goes much farther?

[misternormal]

7. I have this printed out and tacked up in my office...

"Ya know, things would sure be a lot easier if this was a dictatorship... As long as I was the dictator"

I think this is the only truth that Bush has ever spoken, and this is truly what he wants.

My opinion, of course.

[GregD]

9. Ya know how Silvio Berlusconi has refused to leave office?

Imagine that here...

[TAPat]

5. Paul Begala (sp?) was on

the Situation Room yesterday and said that it looked to him like * would be using the "military as a political tool" - and well, we all know what that means... Paul was HOT :grr: about it.

[Carni]

6. I don't either--Bushit has some secret agenda I am sure

It seems to me this is just a way to slap us all with national ID cards and seal US in not keep them out

[Rose Siding]

8. Bush is pandering to his base, just as Karl instructed

And it's also another step in the direction of further militarization. Someone on the board wrote that on the CA visit, bush's motorcade included guys in cammo with machine guns.

[FlaGranny]

10. You know, I am NOT defending some of

the things the Guard has been used for in the past and present, but that is the purpose of the Guard. Their purpose is to defend the US and assist in disasters and even to quell civil unrest. When they were mobilized in Florida after Hurricane Andrew, they did what they do best, and they did it well, even if they were a bit slow in getting here. Remember when Bush tried to wrest control of the NG from LA? Now that WAS scary. But, you are right, the Guard has been used in ways they should not have been. They have also been lifesavers.