A Civilian National Security Force
As Powerful As the Military?
Radio Commentary, WMVV 90.7 New Life FM, February 26, 2010
By Sue Ella Deadwyler
Good morning, Jim. I’m amazed at some of the bills our senators and representatives want to pass, such as S.B. 347 Senator Donzella James introduced a couple of weeks ago. She wants to create an auxiliary police force as stand-by reinforcements for local policemen. I wonder whether it has anything to do with a campaign speech President Obama made in 2008.
This is what he said 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’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” That was not in the transcript released to the press, but you can watch him say it in living color on YouTube.
The auxiliary police would have the power and duties of a peace officer to control crowds or patrol neighborhoods in marked and unmarked cars or patrol every means of transportation or give parking tickets. Their active duty uniforms would show their name, name the local law enforcement agency and their metallic badge would be inscribed “auxiliary police.” Call 404 656-7127* and ask Senator Murphy to keep S.B. 347 in his Public Safety Committee.
Just days ago, during a time of bad weather in North Carolina, Stokes County and the King City Council declared a state of emergency. That triggered North Carolina’s state of emergency law. So, officials put a ban on vehicles. Folks couldn’t drive, they couldn’t carry firearms in their vehicles and the city curfew stopped the sale of alcohol. Folks around there were hopping mad!
That could happen here. Current law allows emergency restrictions on several things, including the sale, dispensing and transportation of firearms. But Senator Preston Smith introduced S.B. 342 to repeal that part of Georgia law, since both the U.S. Constitution and the Georgia Constitution protect the people’s right to keep and bear arms. Call 404 656-0034* and ask Senator Smith to pass S.B. 342 out of his committee very soon. Otherwise, Georgians may experience the same thing that happened in that little town in North Carolina, all because of bad weather. For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.