RSSThe Civil Defense Versus Obama’s Army
Carl Andrews | June 29, 2009
Most of you reading this are probably not old enough to recognize the image attached to this article, or what it once stood for.
We’ll get back to that in a minute.
Some of you may recall that during the Presidential campaign, Barack Obama made the claim that “America needs a domestic security force just as strong and just as well funded as our military.”
At the time, I figured that candidate Obama was choosing to ignore the fact that we already have something along those lines, those of us who are sensible know it as the National Guard.
But it turns out that what Mr. Obama had in mind was, in our opinion, his own private army, formed under the pretense of having a domestic group ready to respond in case of a national emergency or terrorist attack.
Again, Mr. Obama, ever hear of the National Guard?
We have written a number of articles about this ludicrous idea, here are just two:
Obama’s Civilian Security Force and the other is Obama’s Civilian Defense Force Update
Which brings us to the picture we started this article off with.
That picture was the symbol of a now-defunct organization know as The United States Civil Defense.
This was a non-military force, consisting at it’s peak of over 10 million members.
These volunteers were trained, primarily on a local level, to respond to natural disasters, administer first aid, decontaminate after chemical weapons attacks, and a multitude of other scenarios.
An associated agency’s duties consisted of border patrol and search and rescue missions.
Keep in mind, a trained civilian response team consisting of 10 million members.
To get a better idea of how critical this agency was once considered to America’s internal security, if you ever happen to attend a to attend a classic car show, and happen to spot a 40’s to early 60’s car equipped with the original radio, you will see the CD symbol on the radio dial, so people could tune in for critical announcements and updates.
But, as with all good things, government interference and the fed’s usual hair brained ideas that “we can make this work better”
led to this bastion of Americans trained to help fellow Americans faded away/was folded into the federal bureaucracy.
And despite what Janet Napolitan and her minions at the Department of Homeland Security would have you believe, the United States no longer has any group as well trained or containing nearly the measurement of the Civil Defense in it’s heyday.
So, how does this differ from what President Obama envisions?
Obama wants to recruit high school and college students to serve a term of duty in AmeriCorps.
These kids would be shipped off to various locations, housed in a barracks-style setting, issued uniforms (didn’t someone else in history do something like that? I wonder if the shirts would still be brown?), and “trained” in emergency response techniques.
Feeling safer now?
As opposed to the old Civil Defense, of which I can provide a first-hand account of how well they performed the duties they were trained to do.
Bear with me, as I have to go into some detail in order to illustrate my point.
Years ago, the area where I grew up went through a flood that is still ranked as one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
As fate would have it, the area where I lived, as well as that town’s National Guard Armory, were out of the areas affected by the flooding.
A friend and I happened to be standing in my front yard when all of a sudden a military jeep pulled up in front of the house and the soldier asked me my name.
Upon learning that I was who he was looking for, he asked me to get in, and for my friend to come along.
We returned to the armory where the Scoutmaster of my Boy Scout troop, who also happened to be the head of the local Civil Defense unit, was, along with the members of his group, working with the Guard unit on disaster relief.
He had overheard one of the members of the Guard unit saying that they were unable to get blankets, food, and water to one section of the town because the only road to it was flooded out.
When my friend and I walked in, he asked me “Carl, do you know of a way to get to Avondale Hill?”
I told him that I did, but it would involve driving through some old abandoned strip mines.
Fifteen minutes later, my buddy was in one jeep and I was in another, leading the soldiers along this route to take much needed supplies to people who couldn’t be reached any other practical way.
Yes, I realize that for some of you, especially the ones who have never heard of it, something on the order of the Civil Defense sounds kind of old-fashioned.
However, if you were to find yourself in an area hit by a natural disaster, or, God forbid, a terrorist attack, who would you rather have available to turn to for help?
The National Guard being on hand is a given, regardless of Obama’s feelings, they are always ready to step up when they are called.
But who would you rather have providing them assistance?
A group of well trained, mature. local individuals, volunteers who know the area where they are working to try and return life to normal?
People who know of the local citizens and resources to turn to to get a task accomplished in a time of crisis?
Or a bunch of out-of-the-area high school kids who, although they miss being at home playing their video games, for most of whom their biggest concern is how much money they will receive towards college tuition for being part of Obama’s Army?
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