As I read H.R. 675, the disturbing powers granted by the bill are the authority to “execute and serve any warrant or other process issued under the authority of the United States,” and to “make arrests without a warrant…”  for probable cause of past commission or the commission of actual offenses against the United States.   Do we really want game wardens serving warrants?  What additional federal statutes might be passed that would give these newly minted minions of the law increased control over state and local issues?

Possession of a firearm following a conviction for a domestic violence misdemeanor was retroactively made  a violation of  federal law.  (Lautenberg Amendment)  Does this bill mean that a game warden would be making arrests during deer season for someone who pled out to a domestic violence beef in 1970 to avoid attorney’s fees, before the conviction meant a loss of Second Amendment rights?  (Sorry about that, but the SCOTUS ruled that the Lautenberg Amendment did not have an Ex Post Facto problem.)

 This proposed law seems to be an effort by Democrats to implement Obama’s national “civilian” security force.  The US Department of Defense has issued Directive 1404.10 that appears to pave the way for a massive ”Civilian Expeditionary Workforce” to support military operations inside and outside the United States.

Are these measures designed to protect the American People from terrorism, or are they designed to protect the Federal Government from American Citizens?  Do these activities, taken as a whole represent an attempt to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act, which keeps the Federal Government out of local law enforcement?

Do the Democrats plan to establish a national police force along the lines of the French Surete?  How will these plans relate to Obama’s volunteer youth corps?  (See my post, “Obama’s ’service’ speech: Gestapo, Red Guards, or something else?” 07-21-08, under the tag, “national security.”)

Ask your senators and representatives to tell you what they know about H.R. 675 and DoD Directive 1404.10.  These laws and regulations sound suspiciously like the birth of the Gestapo, the S.A., the S.S., the NKVD, or the KGB.  Of course, this flurry of activity  might be nothing at all.  We need to find out what it is, before we have federal agents asking to see our papers at roadblocks and investigating “hooliganism” in our neighborhoods.

Def Mech