Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce

[Sol Invictus]

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, Jan 30th, 2009

The Defense Department has established a "civilian expeditionary workforce" that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions.

The move is seen by some as an initial step towards fulfilling president Obama’s promise to form a civilian national security force as powerful as the U.S. military.

The intent of the program “is to maximize the use of the civilian workforce to allow military personnel to be fully utilized for operational requirements,” according to a Defense Department report.

The program was officially implemented one week ago, on the 23rd January, when Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England signed Defense Department Directive 1404.10 (PDF), which provides a summation of the duties the workforce will undertake.

The directive, which is effective immediately, states that civilian employees of the DoD will be asked to sign agreements stating that they will deploy in support of military missions for up to two years if needed.

Workforce members, who are divided into different designations under the directive, will serve overseas in support of humanitarian, reconstruction and, if necessary, combat-support missions.

"If the employee does not wish to deploy, every effort will be made to reassign the employee to a nondeploying position." the DoD report states.

While the directive suggests that the DoD will at first seek volunteers to serve in the civilian workforce, section 4, subsection (e) paragraph (2) states:

Management retains the authority to direct and assign civilian employees, either voluntarily, involuntarily, or on an unexpected basis to accomplish the DoD mission.

In addition, the directive states that all workforce members will be subject to physical and psychological testing, both before and after deployment.

The directive refers several times to the civilian workforce as a component of the "Total Force", which it describes as "The organizations, units, and individuals that compromise the DoD resources for implementing the National Security Strategy." This "Total Force" includes active, reserve and retired military personnel in addition to DoD civilian employees.

Back in July 2008, Barack Obama, then the presidential front runner, called for a "civilian national security force" as powerful as the U.S. military.

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama told a Colorado Springs audience.

The comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the corporate media but were found to be troubling by some independent journalists who compared the idea to the formation of the Nazi Hitler Youth.

Fears of "youth brigades" or civilian stasi style units increased following Obama’s appointment of Rahm Emanuel to chief-of staff.

In his book, "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," Emanuel writes: "It’s time for a real Patriot Act that brings out the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, all Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service."

The book also notes, "Some Republicans will squeal about individual freedom, ruling out any likelihood that they would let people opt out of universal citizen service."

Emanuel is also an enthusiastic supporter of the United States Public Service Academy Act, a lobbying group founded in 2006 in order to promote the foundation of an American public service academy modeled on the military academies - a youth corps whose students would be trained in "civilian internship in the armed forces".

Furthermore, in a rediscovered 2006 audio clip of an interview with Ben Smith of the New York Daily News, Emanuel outlined the agenda for compulsory military-style training, essentially a domestic draft, aimed at preparing Americans for a chemical or biological terrorist attack.

When controversy arose over the program last November, the use of the word "required" to describe the program was removed from Obama’s change.gov website and replaced with "community service" type terminology.

Though the civilian expeditionary workforce program is restricted to DoD employees, similar programs have already been established for public sector workers.

One such program has seen hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and utility workers recently trained and dispatched as "Terrorism Liaison Officers" in Colorado, Arizona and California to watch for "suspicious activity" which is later fed into a secret government database.

[Birka]

This is one of the most ominous things I have ever read. Freedom and Liberty just absorbed a severe blow.

[Sol Invictus]

Oh but don't you care about those poor and lowly homeless people?! .. The soup kitchens though! This is here to hellllp us..! Obama's here to saaaave us! :rolleyes:

Now shut up or get in the un-marked black van..

[Birka]

All Hail the great Empire of Obonga.

[stormlord]

I'm not one for conspiracy theories but there is something disturbing about this. It is similar to some of the stuff the Nazis did, for example they saw the army as not being sufficiently committed to national socialism so they formed the SS as a parallel military, they saw the intelligence services in the same light so they formed the SD et etc. If the military need more support then why not just increase their budget? No doubt the new "civilian force" will receive ideological training of some sort, as far from those evil conservative army people as possible. The formation of parallel structures of government always presages a rooting out of "the old order".

[Sol Invictus]

None of this is conspiracy 'theories'.. It's HAPPENING.. I don't buy into conspiracies easily either.. But when there's information that backs up what's going on, then I won't just lay down like a jellyfish and wait for all this to jump up and slap me in the face unlike all the other buffoons around me.. Because then it'll be too late.. Our societies are conditioned to act this way, and a slap is exactly what we need.. Because we're too fucking stupid to see what the hell is going on around us..

[Birka]

None of this is conspiracy 'theories'.. It's HAPPENING.. I don't buy into conspiracies easily either.. But when there's information that backs up what's going on, then I won't just lay down like a jellyfish and wait for all this to jump up and slap me in the face unlike all the other buffoons around me.. Because then it'll be too late.. Our societies are conditioned to act this way, and a slap is exactly what we need.. Because we're too fucking stupid to see what the hell is going on around us..

A lot of Americans see the same things as you. Why do you think guns sales are at all time highs after the Obonga coronation? Stock up on guns and ammo while you still can.

[Skandi]

This looks to me as if the American state has overstretched it's military capacity, in so many stupid wars. So since it can no longer guarantee that there are enough military personel avaliable it has to think of something else. I expect that to begin with they will not force people to go and there will be many get-out clauses, but over time these will be erroded away, and what you will get is people on half the money of the military doing the same jobs. Do you really think that the enemy will care if you are a civilian "backup" or not, they'll shoot just the same, maybe even harder, because you'll be seen as an easier target than the fully trained bods.

[Sol Invictus]

http://i40.tinypic.com/2dtruxg.jpg (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7886780711843120756&ei=U9rJSb_3C43a-QH9yeGoDg&q=the+obama+deception&emb=1)

Senate Rubber Stamps National Enslavement Bill

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com (http://www.infowars.com/senate-rubber-stamps-national-enslavement-bill/)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Senate last night rubber stamped a nightmare domestic draft bill that legislates mandatory national service and creates an “army” of at least 7 million civilian enforcers working at the the behest of the government, while also containing language that threatens to ban free speech and the right to protest.

Last week, we reported on the House passage of the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, which was carried with a 321-105 margin vote.

A passage contained in section 6104 of the original House version entitled “Duties,” in subsection B6, states that a commission will be set up to investigate, “Whether a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed.” This language has been dropped from the version passed by the Senate.

However, Section 120 of the bill discusses the “Youth Engagement Zone Program” and states that “service learning” will be “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.” This part remains in the version passed by the Senate.

Roles which will be staffed by members of the programs, labeled “Required National Service Corps,” include “criminal justice,” “environmental stewardship,” and “public safety”.

Aside from the programs aimed at college students and young people, others will be specifically targeted towards, “Retired and other former law enforcement, fire, rescue, and emergency personnel, and other individuals with backgrounds in disaster preparedness, relief, and recovery.”

The bill was rubber stamped by the Senate last night in a 74 to 14 motion, in what is described as a “procedural vote,” a move that creates “An army dispersed to help with education, health services and the environment, (which) would vastly enlarge the notion of “community organizing,” and allow, as Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland, said tonight, for about 7 million people to be engaged in such work,” reports the New York Times.

The Senate will meet tomorrow morning to formally ratify the bill and finalize amendments. Call your Senator and demand that at least the mandatory language contained in this bill be removed.

References to the program as the creation of a civilian “army” have dominated mainstream news coverage of the legislation.

7 million members of this civilian “army” equates to about one member for every 50 Americans, a similar figure to the number of East Germans who collaborated with the Stasi and informed on their own citizens during the cold war.

The GIVE Act is just one of many pieces of legislation that vastly expand service organizations in line with Obama’s agenda to create a “national civilian security force”.

In January we also reported on the introduction by the Department of Defense of a “civilian expeditionary workforce” that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions.

The DoD report states, “Management retains the authority to direct and assign civilian employees, either voluntarily, involuntarily, or on an unexpected basis to accomplish the DoD mission.”

Though the civilian expeditionary workforce program is restricted to DoD employees, similar programs have already been established for public sector workers.

One such program has seen hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and utility workers recently trained and dispatched as “Terrorism Liaison Officers” in Colorado, Arizona and California to watch for “suspicious activity” which is later fed into a secret government database.

Similar initiatives have been introduced in other western countries, including recently in the UK with the announcement that MI5 is currently training up to 60,000 UK citizens as part a civilian network of terrorist spotters, according to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and home secretary, Jacqui Smith.

In addition, Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, publicly stated his intention to help create “universal civil defense training” in 2006.

In an interview with Ben Smith of the New York Daily News, Emanuel outlined the agenda for military-style training, essentially a domestic draft, aimed at preparing Americans for a chemical or biological terrorist attack.

Asked by Smith about the universal service plan and whether people would have to live in military barracks, Emanuel laughed before responding, “We’re going to have universal civil defense training, somewhere between the ages of 18 to 25 you will do three months of training….but there can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint similar experience of what we call civil defense training or civil service in service of the country, in preparation, which will give people a sense of what it means to be an American.”

“It will be a common experience and we will be prepared, God forbid, God forbid that there is a chemical hit, another terrorist act or natural disaster becoming more frequent - there’ll be a body of citizens who are ready and capable and trained - that’s all you have to think about,” said Emanuel before smugly declaring, “We’re all here for you OK? It’s a circle of love.”

Asked if the training would be military style, with people wearing uniforms, Emanuel stated, “If you’re worried about are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks the answer is yes,” adding that the service could be done through state national guard.

Shockingly, the GIVE legislation also contains language that could completely demolish the 1st amendment.

The 12th amendment to the act states, “Amendment to prohibit organizations from attempting to influence legislation; organize or engage in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes; and assist, promote, or deter union organizing.”

As Gary Wood writes, “Those in support of this legislation will argue this amendment is limited in scope and is not meant to interfere with the rights of citizens to protest, petition, boycott, or strike in resistance to government proposed laws. However, the people associated through service under the GIVE Act are considered volunteers, still free citizens, yet it will be unlawful for them to take part in any protests against any legislation. This is as close to a sedition act, a violation of 1st Amendment rights, as has been proposed in recent history. A basic right as a part of our natural, inalienable rights, is to resist government. Our founders not only knew it was a right but it was a responsibility. This legislation begins to break that down significantly.”

Fears about Obama’s plans to create involuntary servitude and domestic spy squads were first stoked in July 2008, when Obama told a rally in Colorado Springs, “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”

Despite denials that Obama plans to institute a mandatory program of national service, his original change.gov website stated that Americans would be “required” to complete “50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year”. The text was only later changed to state that Americans would be “encouraged” to undertake such programs.

Numerous other national service bills have been introduced which target everyone from schoolchildren to the elderly. They include the Service For All Ages Initiative, the Summer of Service Act, the Semester of Service Act, the Encore Service Act and the ACTION Act.

Regarding the GIVE Act, “The bill’s opponents — and there are only a few in Congress — say it could cram ideology down the throats of young “volunteers,” many of whom could be forced into service since the bill creates a “Congressional Commission on Civic Service,” reports Fox.

“We contribute our time and money under no government coercion on a scale the rest of the world doesn’t emulate and probably can’t imagine,” said Luke Sheahan, contributing editor for the Family Security Foundation. “The idea that government should order its people to perform acts of charity is contrary to the idea of charity and it removes the responsibility for charity from the people to the government, destroying private initiative.”

Lee Cary of the conservative American Thinker warns that Obama’s agenda is to, “tap into the already active volunteerism of millions of Americans and recruit them to become cogs in a gigantic government machine grinding out his social re-engineering agenda.”

The passage of such shocking legislation with barely a whimper from political activist groups goes to show how well the corporate media has performed in camouflaging the legislation with flowery characterizations of helpful volunteerism, when in reality the bill creates the pretext for mandatory national service and the creation of a multi-million man domestic civil defense unit who will be tasked with spying on their fellow Americans under the justification of protecting the country from terrorism.

[Birka]

This should be the headline on every newspaper in America tomorrow morning. It will be on none. :rolleyes2:

All the US cable news want to talk about is the AIG bonuses. :coffee:

I want to scream!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

[Sol Invictus]

People couldn't give a fuck what's going on.. As long as they got internet connections, beer in the fridge, a couch to sit on and a T.V to stare at they couldn't give a rats ass. You're a conspiracy theorist. Your liberty is not under attack because CNN and Fox aren't talking about it. So it's not true.

Truly frustrating.

I'm resigned to the fact that nothing will change until the SHTF. Until then I spread the word to everyone at my school, my co-workers, and friends. Until then I wait.

[Ulf]

Until then I wait.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Veri'tas Ae'quitas Can'ada wgah'nagl fhtagn.

[Barreldriver]

Just what we need the Obama version of the effin' SS and Hitler Youth. I should have seen this coming. I hope to see some familiar faces on the front lines. I had no idea that Obama was in the process of forming a private army, crap, trying to pass it off as a "civil service" bull, it's his own private fighting force with which he will attempt to strike our people down. Thanks to all the ignorant bafoons who voted for this fool. Sheesh.

[Birka]

When I try to post this criminality on other forums, they suggest my aluminum foil helmet is not tight enough. Why are so many ignoring all of this?

[RoyBatty]

When I try to post this criminality on other forums, they suggest my aluminum foil helmet is not tight enough. Why are so many ignoring all of this?

A number of reasons I guess such as:

- The Fox / CNN Force is strong with them, they're terminally stupid and they believe the NWO BS about "change", the "war on terror" and so forth. Those people are probably using the Corporate Media as a baseline reference for what they perceive "the truth" to be. Since what you're saying to them probably does not follow the script close enough they resort to disbelief.

- Many of these forums are likely staffed and influenced by NWO / Omabongo Apparatchiks (I suspect that there are paid up agents on many boards who spam the required party line over and over in order to influence the already weak thought processes of the herd. I've noticed this incessant behaviour of certain ppl on political forums where despite them being ridiculed they just keep coming back with the same BS)


Sadly I agree with VA, we've gone wayyyyy past the point of "conspiracy theory" territory. It's happening all around us and hardly anybody in the mainstream appears to be taking note.......probably because they're part of that system themselves or have been bought while the ones who disagreed with it were pushed out of positions where they could wield influence to oppose the NWO.

[Sol Invictus]

I was talking about this with my instructor at school, and basically told her that they had just passed a billed that went through the American senate that they are legally allowed to draft a 7 million private army and spy force of Obama. I went on the computer and showed her the mainstream publications, and the infowars article, and you know what she said? "Oh that doesn't sound that bad."

It's the way the media spins things, and how silently the bills are passed and the way they dovetail into immediately relevant things. People are still convinced that there is an Al Qaeda out there that is desperately trying to kill citizens on a massive scale. And the way they tell them this through the media and publications they don't think that a 7 million person strong civilian army is that bad, not knowing exactly what it is for, which is basically to go out and shut people up for speaking badly of Obama.

I blame double-think. The people see it, realize it's happening, know it's wrong, and just completely shut up about it.

[Rudy]

I haven't read very much about any security work for the "volunteers" yet.

The purpose of the bill is to require mandatory community service for all young people in the United States," Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=92902




The blueprint likewise called for the expansion of AmeriCorps from 75,000 to 250,000 and the creation of five separate "Corps" of government-funded "volunteers" to deal with education, health, energy, veterans affairs, and homeland security.
http://www.rense.com/general85/conscrip.htm

[Birka]

I was talking about this with my instructor at school, and basically told her that they had just passed a billed that went through the American senate that they are legally allowed to draft a 7 million private army and spy force of Obama. I went on the computer and showed her the mainstream publications, and the infowars article, and you know what she said? "Oh that doesn't sound that bad."



If W. Bush had done anything like this, they would have been contributing to the daily kos or moveon.org to help impeach him. And rightly so. Ombongo is pushing us towards fascism faster than anything that happened in the 1930's.

[Barreldriver]

If W. Bush had done anything like this, they would have been contributing to the daily kos or moveon.org to help impeach him. And rightly so. Ombongo is pushing us towards fascism faster than anything that happened in the 1930's.

I tried to explain this to my family. My mother said I was nuts, my father just gave up hope, doesn't care, but my grandparents agree 100%(maybe because they witnessed the time period of Hitlers Reich and the fact that they had family that fought against the Nazis in WWII and heard stories about what went on over there from those relations, one of the uncles had to fight a troop of Hitler Youth, destroyed him mentally/emotionally because they reminded him of his nephews and nieces back home).