1. We already have a civilian National Security Force...it's called the FBI, ATF and Fed Marshalls.
2. U.S. military personnel are prohibited from using force against U.S. citizens by Title 18 USC Sec 1385 (posse comitodus). This is why we have state militia's (National Guard) so that a trained military organization is available in the event a state needs this type organization to use force against U.S. citizens. The authority to use National Guard troops in events that call for use of force against U.S. citizens rests with each individual governor. The President does have the power to federalize the National Guard, but once this happens, they cannot be used as a force against U.S. citizens.
Example: My last 14 years on active duty was with the Ky ARNG. My active duty orders were federal, thus whenever there was a riot, looting etc event that called for National Guard troops to provide security etc....I was not allowed to be physically involved in the operations because I was for all purposes on active duty orders with the U.S. Army. I could direct operations (which was one of my jobs) but I could not be physically involved on the scene.
Now, if a civilian National Security Force as mentioned being equipped, trained and armed at the level of the U.S. military were formed...there would be no possible reason for this other than to get around the law that prohibits U.S. federal troops to engage with U. S. citizens.
In my opinion, any force such as this would be a direct threat to the rights of all U.S. citizens to be protected from the Executive Branch (President) being able to apply military rule over them without a change to the U.S. laws that protect us from such an act.
As far as I am concerned...it is of my opinion that we have totally over reacted to the terrorist threat to the point we have already lost some of our freedom in the name of homeland security. There has to be a balance somewhere, where we as a free society will be at some risk if we are to remain a free society. Somewhere along the line, we as a nation, will have to change our views of how we are going to deal with nations that sponsor and harbor terrorists. Our biggest mistake in Iraq was not going there and destroying their country...our mistake was staying there. Leaving the country in shambles would have sent a message to other folks sponsoring and harboring terrorists that you will go down hard if you mess with the U.S. I could care less about the "innocent" civilians there....if they wanted freedom from oppression they had 20 million people that could have risen up as our fore fathers did and pay the price to gain it.
If forming a quasi military CIVILIAN force to strip me and my fellow americans of more of our freedoms is PROGRESS...then it is PROGRESS in the wrong direction for a democracy. And if you or anyone else is driving a truck trying to run over me and my right to LIFE, LIBERTY and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (as long as I am not infringing on someone else's right's) in what you call the name of PROGRESS, be prepared to meet your maker...I will take you out in a heartbeat.
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