One of the cornerstones of the American experiment in human freedom is the tenet that military forces are never to be used against citizens, except in cases of extreme national emergency. When military forces are allowed to engage in domestic issues a Pandora's box is opened that unleashes a slippery slope that erodes every known principle of human liberty.
(AP Photo/David Longstreath). When armies are unleashed against citizens.
Fox News legal analyst and judge Andrew Napolitano has raised serious questions about a new 'private army' funded by the ObamaCare bill.
At issue is a provision, 2 pages long, tucked into the bill that creates and funds a 6000-person brigade of physicians that would be trained by the military and operate with the full powers of the military should the President so direct.
The provision also gives the President broad powers to take National Guard troops from the states in non-wartime and place them in the service of the Federal Government. This mandate would override any objection raised by Governors, who at present possess the only civilian powers over the National Guard.
This video contains commentary on this subject by Andrew Napolitano. To get to the portion of the program that discusses the private army provision, watch the entire video, which is a definite eye-opener.
Several troubling issues come to the surface concerning this portion of the ObamaCare bill, which has now been signed into law.
First, until now if the government needed physicians it could hire them to serve under Health and Human Services to work in the Centers for Disease Control or the Public Health Service. For the first time in American history a special provision is made to place physicians in military training and service during non-wartime.
Why does the President need a 6000-person brigade of military physicians to 'take care of our health'?
Second, why does Barack Obama feel that he needs to take National Guard away from the states during peacetime to place them under his command, to be utilized as part of a federal army, when the Guard specifically operates under the control of the states, except during wartime?
The implications of that provision, in and of itself, are chilling.
Third, the physicians that are placed into military training and service will not, according to the bill, be utilized in overseas wars such as Afghanistan. They are to remain here in the states.
But the Constitution forbids that the U.S. military be used in civilian matters here at home. This is a time-honored law that goes to the very foundation of this Constitutional Republic, namely, that the government would NEVER use the military in domestic matters.
The 6000-person brigade, however, can be used by the President in domestic issues--a clear violation of the Constitution. And Barack Obama stated often during the campaign that he wanted a special army, to be used separately from the established military, in order to accomplish his goal of 'helping the government help the people.' (VIDEO HERE).
Fourth, the private army brigade in the ObamaCare bill is funded for four years. The Constitution prohibits the military from being funded for longer than two years at a time...another violation of the Constitution.
The question is, why and for what purpose?
Before the ObamaCare bill was signed into law, many, including this writer, downplayed the significance of this portion of the legislation, believing that it only pertains to recruiting and deploying an adequate number of physicians during a healthcare emergency.
With Judge Napolitano's analysis of the provision, now that the bill is the law of the land, new concerns about the 'private army' appear to be justified.
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