Bill Quick ponders what for me would be the biggest problem about the coming BHO administration:

Every single tyrant of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (that I know of) has created “national security forces”. Almost every wanna-be tyrant tries it. SS. NKVD. IRGC. Republican Guard. Stasi. These are just a few of the more notorious names “national security forces” have gone under. I don’t know the names of all of them, but similar organizations were created in China, Cuba, Vietnam, the Eastern Bloc countries during the Iron Curtain years, Venezuela under Chavez, Cambodia, Nicaragua, and more. Allende claimed that he could not control the left-wing paramilitaries in Chile, even though their leaders were part of his ill-fated coalition.

There is only one purpose for creating large new security forces.. That purpose is to create forces loyal to the executive that can offset the typically conservative forces of existing military and law enforcement organizations. These new forces have no institutional history, so they have no inbuilt resistance to the leader who creates them. They are typically staffed with the most fervent and loyal followers of the leader, people who can be counted on to go out and intimidate, extort, and bust heads without asking questions. They are intentionally designed as instruments of intimidation and political control.

I was thinking about this on my drive home. I was thinking hard. BHO’s background of Alinskyite community organizing square well with the goals of this new domestic paramilitary. Come to think of it, it is the apotheosis of Alinsky’s methods. The creation of a separate domestic paramilitary immediately makes a runaround of the concept of posse comitatus in the sense that the BHO CNSF is neither military, nor police, at least technically.

So what, pray tell, would this mythic beast be? Bill Quick continues in his essay to question the need for the CNSF’s very existence. I do, too. We have institutions in place for domestic security. They are called police, and in cases of national emergency, the National Guard, and what have you.

But, for a second, let us give BHO the benefit of the doubt that his intentions are sincere and pure. Thus he sets in place yet another institution that may never ever go away (cf: Dept. Of Education). If for no other tyrannical reason, the CNSF will be key to his wealth redistribution methods. Who will be his troops on the ground? Who will be its adminstrators, its organizers? I could imagine the bureaucracy of this CNSF to be similar to what ACORN might use. It will follow the community organization model because it is what he knows best. This institution will be staffed by the ranks of the currently unemployed, as a means of “raising them from poverty.” They will be grateful, and they will be loyal.

Finally, let us set aside the very idea that this is a tyrannical concept in the first place, if but for a second. Consider the final problem with this idea. It is a goverment institution and with it comes the lack of accountability and the propensity of underperformance that is inherent in any “safe” “government job.” I mean not to denigrate the careers of those in public service, but from the outside, it is what we see. Corporations great and small tend to be far more ruthless with underperformers. And we won’t have that kind of accountability in a service like that. There goes my tax money, producing 10 cents’worth of work for every dollar paid.

Paranoid much, you might ask? I have remained calm in my dread. I have maintained my arguments with no foam around my mouth. If Barry Oh! dare, and I mean dare try to get this program in the works, I will speak. But for now may we all be warned. (And this, dear friends, is what I mean loyal opposition, preemptive it may be. None of that “let’s hug and make up,” not before he’s done anything yet.)