Is this something you'd back?

Washington -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein proposed yesterday that the National Guard be transformed into "a kind of homeland defense force" that would protect everything from airports to aqueducts.

The California Democrat also said she wanted an increased role for the Coast Guard, which is charged with defense of the nation's ports and waterways.

A number of National Guard and reserve units have been called up already for airport security. But Feinstein envisions a much larger role for the Guard,

which has traditionally been a part-time force that drills on weekends.

Feinstein said the Guard should protect aqueducts and highways, among other things. Her proposal envisions a full-time call-up of Guard personnel.

So far, President Bush has asked the National Guard to help provide security at 422 airports. About 5,000 Guard personnel have been called up.

The president has the authority to order the Guard's role increased. No congressional legislation is needed.

Feinstein's proposal, if put into effect, would result in the largest call- up of the National Guard in more than 50 years. The last time units were used in such numbers was during the Korean War, when the 40th Division of the California National Guard was sent into combat.

At least two National Guard units -- the California Guard, which is the largest in the United States, and the Alaska National Guard, the smallest -- endorsed Feinstein's idea.

Maj. Gen. Paul Monroe Jr., commanding officer of the California Guard, said that he was generally in favor of the proposal but that it "raises certain concerns. My biggest concern is if homeland security becomes our only mission, we might lose our capacity to be first responders to the regular Army and Air Force."

The California Guard has about 21,000 members: 16,000 in the Army National Guard and 5,000 in the Air National Guard.

So far 3,000 of its members have been called up to active duty. Some are on patrol at airports, while others, including two battalions of infantry, have been called for duty overseas.

The Alaska National Guard, with 4,000 members equally divided between Army and air units, is ready to go. Homeland defense, said Maj. Mike Haller, "is not a foreign mission to us at all."

"We trace our roots to World War II when we had a homeland defense mission, " Haller said. During the Cold War, he said, Alaska was "a forward area."

Feinstein also called for a bigger role for the Coast Guard, which has been inspecting cargo and cruise ships. Feinstein said most cargo enters the country uninspected.

"Five million cargo containers entered the United States last year," she said, "and only 2 percent were inspected. We have always put trade ahead of the security of our nation."

The present crisis has strained the Coast Guard, which has about 30,000 regular service personnel, fewer than the New York City Police Department.

First, I think that you would see a big drop in the total enrollment in the National Guard.  Not that those in the NG love their country any less, I just think that a long term call-up would have this effect.  Second, Just what the hell does Feinstein know about "security of our nation", she has done more to hurt security than just about anyone else!  Just my .02 cents.

 Vulcan94  [:(!]

This is what's wrong with her:

[b]"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out right ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."
-U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, CBS-TV's "60 Minutes.[/b]

Think she could get 51 now?

She is a Terminator, programmed by Cyberdyne Systems (like her fellow Model 1000s Clinton, Gore, Daschle, etc...) to eliminate Freedom and Free thinking among the slave population.

Teddy Kennedy is the older model 800, and has shown damage to his CPU from alcohol. This flaw was corrected with the newer models.

Excerpts from the Future History of Cyberdyne, USA, INC. (formerly known as the United States of America)

If you added 51 points to Diane Feinstein's IQ, she would still be mentally challenged.  (Just my personal observation.)

Come on, people .... it's a wonderful idea. And the uniforms were already designed in Germany at the end of the thirties .... black shirts, really looked sharp.  They could have this cool salute,too.....

[b]SHE LOVES SOCIALISM[/b]

Whatever it takes, like using the recent tragedy, to further her F*ckedup agenda.

Yesterday, she was defending the leaking of classified information to the news media by congress.  It's OK if she approves of the leak!  I bet she knows who did it!

[puke][puke][puke][puke][puke]

And the official beer-drinking song is "Horstwessel lied"

I like the idea. This will work grat with the having Middle Eastern people wearing yellow arm bans. We could also control what kids read in school to keep thier mind pure. Maybe even close down large parts of the wilderness. We need keep everyone in large towns where they can be watched. We could even set up hot line so bad people could be reported to the goverment.

Of coarse paying all those gardsmen is going to get expensive, so taxes will have to be raised. Next we could turn a state into a prison for all the bad people.

Not my true feelings.

So, when she makes us give up all our guns.......is she going to give up her gun as well?  Effing bitch.

She needs a good boyfriend.........[sex][flame][spank]

Hey, I don't have a job. Pay me $20/hour and I'll park my rear in a lawn chair and guard the California Aqueduct with my SUR.

I thought the guard was a fighting force? Why waste them on this kind of role?

Feinstein is such a moron. She has her CCW but the rest of us must find protection under the gun of a military police force.

First tell me something RIGHT with her.

Her opinion surveys likely inform her that a greater than normal percentage of the population supports the idea of arming folks for defence against the bad guys.

Since allowing the second amendment to be implemented goes against her wishes, she's going to do what she can to spend public money calling up a few thousand reservists instead - even though CCWs are an inexpensive ideal tool to defend against these types of attacks.

You're not the only one who thinks she was the source of the leak. Death to traitors!

The "Bitch" has an "Ulterior Motive". Somewhere in there, is another push, for total "Gun Control"....Watch out for "Barbara "The Bitch" Boxer" also. Both, are about, as "Anti-Gun" and "Anti-Military" as you can get.

I believe all of these "Elected Officials" should have a "Background Investigation" done, as we had to go through in the Military, to get
a "TS". They are trusted with our "National Secrets" of which they cannot wait to give to the "Media".......Maybe this belongs on another post ??????? For all the public knows they could be "Communists"..ooops! Wrong Era....

Apologies from the state of Alaska....

Feinstein is a domestic terrorist.  She has been attemting to derail the American Constitution for years.  We all need to keep an eye on her and her butt buddie Rosie O'Donnel who is also part of the same domestic terrorist cell that Feinstein controls.

The people of Kalifornia are fools for not throwing her ass out a long time ago...
Plain and simple.
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What the hell was ever RIGHT with Feinstein?

Why use our own National Guard?
We've got NATO aircraft already patrolling, why not invite some NATO troops to guard our borders?
effing dingbat
I imagine that if they stopped the stupid-!@@ gun laws in that state that they'd have their own guard force without spending a penney. Ought to suggest that to her!

[b]What the hell is wrong with Feinstein? [/b]


Nothing [i]major[/i], there are lots of people in this country that agree with her to a T.  The question is, Why is she voted for?  What the hell is wrong with her [i]voters?[/i]

In short she is "hucked in the fead."

I hope you realize that in criticizing Feinstein you are just showing that you are all anti-semites.

im not anti-semite, im anti-idiot. this same F'n biotch that wants to activate the guard ala totalitarian police state is the same miserable c**t that worked with the klintons to nueter the military for 8 straight years. what scares me most about DiFi and boxer and schumer is that there are people who elect them time and time again. it almost makes one lose faith in our fellow citizens. do people not know there is a constitutional distinction between the police and the military? hell the public never noticed but the JTF missions on the mexican border were illeagal as hell. guardsmen in the airport is pushing it. THE HIGHJACKERS HAD TICKETS A-HOLES!!!! why cant my family meet me at the gate. even if all these draconian security measures had been in place they would have made it aboard. prior to the 11th my Emerson CQC7 went on the plane with me. an E-2 with a rifle and no ammo is not going to change anything. let these guys make real money at their civilian jobs so they can pump it back into the economy.
cameras at redlights
GPS in cellphones
guardsmen in airports

why doesnt this stuff amke the news???? i just hope and pray that GWB line-items the sh** out of the de-militerization bill

thus endeth my rant

Man, you're loosing your touch. I know you can do better than that.

That she is one of our senators. She also takes advantage of the situation to farther her career.

Everything wrong with this country starts in California and heads East.




"Do what you will,
just please God, give us a massive earthquake."

And North.

I think she watched Gidget and the original Mickey Mouse Club too much as a kid and thought it was reality.

We're doing what we can here, I know I can do more; I have a great platform for putting out ideas (and people say they never learned anything in school). We do have a lot of people on the east coast working for Bill of Rights enforcement, but there are a lot of sheeple here in the Peoples Republik of Mass.

You guys are all NUTTERS!

"Washington -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein proposed yesterday that the National Guard be transformed into "a kind of homeland defense force" that would protect everything from airports to aqueducts."

OMG I think I'm gon'a be sick but thats a good!

That is as it should be man,the NG needs to stay the hell out of the other branchs and works at home ONLY as long as there are run by the state and not the feds.

that would be more like the way the founders wanted them to be,we really don't have a state by state militia like we should and this would be a good way to get them out from under the feds.
And I bet the NG would not set your house on fire like the damn ATF.
I would much rather deal with them,people from my own state working in my state.

Not only that, Imbroglio, but considering that Feinstein had herself deputized as a Federal Marshall just so she wouldn't be inconvenienced by pesky laws against CCW across the country, this thread could also be considered Anti-LEO!!!!  [:P]