IP: "What's A Military Take-over, Daddy?"

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
>
>
> [Note:  This item comes from reader Steve Schear.  DLH]
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> At 11:58 -0800 1/29/02, Steve Schear wrote:
> > From: Steve Schear <schear () lvcm com>
> > To: "Dewayne-Net Technology List" <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> > Subject: Fwd: "What's A Military Take-over, Daddy?"
> > Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:58:19 -0800
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
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> > Is it just me thinking that we seem to be creating a massive internal 
> > security apparatus, similar to those in undemocratic nations, often used 
> > to suppress dissent in the name of national security.  I guess it hardly 
> > surprising, given the more than questionable extension of fed authority 
> > in recent decades, that some citizens with a mistaken notion that a plain 
> > reading of the Constitution should guide government might become 
> > "problems" for those who think otherwise.
> >
> > >  > Pentagon Plans New Command For U.S.
> > > >  Four-Star Officer Would Oversee Homeland Defense
> > > >
> > > >  By Bradley Graham
> > > >  Washington Post Staff Writer
> > > >  Sunday, January 27, 2002; Page A01 The Pentagon has decided to ask the
> > > >  White House for approval to set up a new four-star command to coordinate
> > > >  federal troops used to defend North America, part of an intensified 
> > > > effort
> > > >  to bolster homeland security, defense officials said.

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