An Aug. 31 article from the United Kingdom's Telegraph has disclosed "that the Home Office is granting police powers to council staff and private security guards, allowing then (sic) to hand out fines for low-scale offences and ask for personal details." Further, local authorities within the UK have begun utilizing volunteers who "will be involved in reporting issues in their area such as recycling, waste, fly-tipping, graffiti, dog fouling and abandoned vehicles." It appears that our Anglican allies have beat Sen. Obama to the creation of a "Civilian National Defense Force."
The accompanying video report found on the same site reveals the use of closed circuit cameras on the streets of the UK, which are not indifferent from the traffic surveillance cameras rapidly increasing in numbers and found at many major American street intersections. However, images of English cameras evince that more than traffic intersections are being observed and/or recorded, which would arguably be an invasion of American privacy should such cameras cross the Atlantic.
The most concerning aspect of utilizing "environmental volunteers" to police the body politick is the precedent that it establishes. Since most adherents to liberalism in America have bought into the money-making scheme of global warming and a good amount of self-professed conservatives have as well, it leads one to wonder what other liberal policies could eventually be policed by a well-funded civilian force should an ultra-liberal ascend to the White House this November.
Lee Cary visited Sen. Obama's aforementioned desire to create his CNDF on July 20, 2008, but he focused more on the tax implications and dismissed a Gestapo-like police operation by declaring that Obama did not "portend a 'giant police force,'" while referencing WorldNetDaily's Joseph Farah's postulation of such a police agency. However, after scrutinizing the English report and video evidence, Americans should not simply dismiss Obama's CNDF as naïve but – as Cary posited – a possible attempt at social re-engineering that is enforced domestically by our own neighbors, friends and families.
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Farah calls for other journalists and radio hosts to begin prodding Obama to clarify his intentions, which he clearly has kept cloaked behind a veil of hype and vague promises. Even American Thinker's editor and publisher Thomas Lifson called for talk-show hosts to investigate this story on July 17, 2008, yet nothing of significance has surfaced.
Americans need to be exposed to videos and reports like those developed by the Telegraph. American journalists, bloggers and website editors need to help spread the word that other democratic nations are in fact doing what was unthinkable even 30 years ago, and that voting into power socialist-minded leaders could yield vexatious assaults on our natural rights just as they have apparently occurred in the United Kingdom. Additionally, as Farah and Cary have already appraised, Americans need to be exposed to the significant costs of such an ambitious program, and depending on the mainstream media to expose such expenses is folly.
Americans need to shed their shroud of ignorance and seriously evaluate the obscured schema of Sen. Obama, or they may risk losing some of their right to privacy. That is unless these same Americans intend on staffing a newly created Civilian National Defense Force and reporting those who fail to properly recycle their plastics.
Rob Anthony