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“...the reality of the world we live in.”

Unless you're an administration apparatchik or a student being served daily doses of Kool-Aid in the liberal lunchroom, your Top-5 list of internal threats to the USA -- to homeland security, as it were -- would probably include most or all of the following potentialities...

  • Terrorism
  • Violence and chaos resultant of a manmade disaster.
  • Violence and chaos resultant of a natural disaster.
  • Lawlessness that is unmanageable by local and state police.
  • Espionage
You would also be inclined to believe that, during the unfolding of such unthinkable events a large group of armed, patriotic, Constitution-loving citizens -- many of whom have served in the military -- would enhance the maintenance and preservation of homeland security in addition to providing cost-effective defense of their own personal interests and those of other law-abiding Americans. In other words, these citizens would be an important ally to the police and National Guard during a major homeland security crisis . . . READ THE REST

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