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Sen. Barbara Boxer: Activate National Guard to Protect Schools
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Posted on 12/20/2012 5:35:36 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Sen. Barbara Boxer: Activate National Guard to Protect Schools By Jack Coleman Created 12/20/2012 - 8:15pm

Senator Barbara Boxer is showing how far she will go in her endeavor to do something, anything in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.

Appearing on Ed Schultz's radio show yesterday, Boxer says she is filing legislation that would allow governors to activate up to 4,000 National Guard soldiers nationwide to provide security at schools. (audio after page break)

There's a wrinkle -- the soldiers wouldn't actually be assigned to schools in Boxer's plan. Instead, they'd fill in for local police working "desk jobs" who would then protect schools themselves.

No, I am not making this up.

Here's a clip of Boxer describing her creative scheme to Schultz (audio) --

BOXER: We have 300 million weapons out there in America, so no matter what we do, we're not going to get rid of those weapons. So we need to keep the schools safe and I'm working on bills to allow the schools in an affordable way to be able to protect the students by having more personnel who are trained personnel.

SCHULTZ: Well, we have heard from a number of different states actually that are bringing forth legislation on a state level that they would arm the teachers!

BOXER: Well that's ridiculous! Arming the teachers is ridiculous and you're saying it's happening in many states. This is not a teacher's job. And, you know, what's really very interesting is, as I introduce my bills, one of which would allow the National Guard to become available to the governors who requested them. This is the current status now for the drug interdiction program where governors ask the Secretary of Defense to provide National Guard, up to 4,000 of them, to help in drug interdiction. My bill would say, it's called SOS -- Save Our Students -- allow the Guard without any problems with Posse Comitatus because they would really be relieving some of the police officers who are at desk jobs and allow those police officers to just go in front of the schools. This would allow the schools to not have to put the burden on a teacher. Imagine! A teacher goes to school, as you've pointed out, and to college and gets degrees to teach, not to learn how to kill!

Yes, it's clearly unrealistic to expect teachers to learn any more than necessary, not with union contracts to honor, thank you very much. Beyond that, do we really want to trust them with the safety of our children?

Suffice it to say that if the "SOS" bill were in effect now, National Guard soldiers would be filing paperwork and making coffee at the Newtown police station while local police were assigned sentinel duty outside local schools.

Then when the next rampage takes place elsewhere, local police would again guard a school after children were slaughtered there. It would not be long before any police officer assigned this duty was tagged with an unfortunate nickname by embittered residents -- The Cop Who Got Here Too Late. One can easily envision police officers lining up for this assignment, or at least Boxer can envision it.

It doesn't take much in the way of imagination, except perhaps to the honorable Democrat from California, to see the majority of deployments along these lines coming in response to bogus threats phoned in by teenage scofflaws and various miscreants.

Just wondering -- would a declaration of war be necessary before doing this or only if a Republican is president?

Appearing last night on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, Boxer did not bring up her proposal, except to mention that she's working on legislation for "school safety."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: AbnSarge
How are you going to pay for it?

Since The Bernank and Turbo Tim are generating a trillion per year or so in fake money what's another couple hundred million?

41 posted on 12/20/2012 6:48:39 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh, and by the way Senator, I would expect you to know that the governors command, and can call up their states’ National Guard without any “allow” from Congress, and since they are then in the State role, are not subject to Posse Comitatus. That’s why NG is called up for civil disturbances, not the active component.


42 posted on 12/20/2012 6:50:53 PM PST by AbnSarge
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To: Volunteer
Why is this woman still in the U.S. Senate?

I have to admit there's only a very few ultra-blue states that would vote her in. She found one of them.

43 posted on 12/20/2012 6:50:53 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: nascarnation
what's another couple hundred million?

It will cost that much to weed out all the pedophiles and perverts.

44 posted on 12/20/2012 6:52:27 PM PST by Alaska Wolf (Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
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To: Truth is a Weapon

Agreed. They wouldn’t be saying a thing.


45 posted on 12/20/2012 6:57:42 PM PST by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: RitchieAprile

Slipped a gear on that one didn’t eye?


46 posted on 12/20/2012 7:25:11 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Lot of ignorance here and with the politicians about the National Guard {and it’s National Guard, never national guards - they’re not warehouse watchmen}.

The National Guard is already under control of the states and its governors. It does not need federal authorization to do something, even something as stupid as this proposal by dumb-as-dirt Boxer.

National Guardsmen do not hang around the armory like fireman at the firehouse waiting for the next call from some stupid politician. They have real full-time civilian jobs like you do and train for real missions, from Special Ops insertions and fighter air strikes in Afghanistan to evacuation and rescue in a local flood.

Somehow it’s in too many people’s minds, including here at FR, that the Guard {not “guards”} is sort of like a constabulary day labor force ready to do the job that other well paid bureacracies can’t or won’t do, like guard the border, do drug searches, or guard schoolhouses.


47 posted on 12/20/2012 7:27:36 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Sub-Driver

She admits something most flaming lefties will not admit, that you can `fight fire with fire,’ but she doesn’t want to admit that common citizens can be trusted with guns.
Soldiers have to do it.
OK Babs, guns with good guys behind them belong in school. Now we’re getting somewhere. We’re really not that bad.
Yet.


48 posted on 12/20/2012 7:32:10 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives. "A long train of abuses and usurpations.")
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To: Volunteer

To #6: Why is this woman still in the U.S. Senate?

Easy answer: She is proof positive that the mentally ill can win a Democrat Senate race ad nauseaum in California. Same applies to a lot of Democrat Representatives all over the country: Maxine Waters; Sheila Lee Jackson; Clyburn; Johnson; Hastings, Debbie WassermanTest-Putz; Alan Grayson, the poster boy for Mental Health Year; Schumer; Reid; that dork from Illinois - Durbin; Kerry; Harkin; Franken; Kaine; etc.

And we call Lanza “crazy”!


49 posted on 12/20/2012 7:34:45 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Are you sure that it’s crazy?

Couldn’t it just be brain dead stupid?


50 posted on 12/20/2012 7:38:27 PM PST by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: oldbill
Been active, been reserve. Had a kid that was Guard. I know the diff. Lots of folks on FR don't. Lots of folks in congress don't.

As far as I'm concerned, E-1 through E-5 need to be studying their MOS or AFSC and trying to upgrade.

Officers need to be prodded with rare books from the 1600s on pike squares or put on the spot with what OODA means. Or be made to quote from Tzun Tzu.

Oh, and keeping their deployment folder, shot record, dental record, medical record, diversity training stuff up to date.

Our guys are busy enough. Give protecting schools to vets that have a couple of DD-214s under their belts and are too fat to hump a mile and a half with the kids.

/johnny

51 posted on 12/20/2012 7:38:42 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The bloody shirt did wonders for the Reverend Jackson’s career. But Babs wanting to turn weekend warriors into weekday warriors? Never let a crisis go to waste, I suppose.


52 posted on 12/20/2012 9:18:31 PM PST by printhead (Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What good are soldiers without guns?


53 posted on 12/20/2012 9:23:18 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Sub-Driver

But will they be inside or outside the metal doors?


54 posted on 12/20/2012 9:32:10 PM PST by mykroar (BAD-ANON: One Game At A Time)
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To: Sub-Driver

Did she get to the part about having guns that shoot confetti?


55 posted on 12/20/2012 9:33:17 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Sub-Driver
Boxer: Arming the teachers is ridiculous...This is not a teacher's job.

Why not? They're not doing anything anyway. If they were actually doing their job, we wouldn't have the dumbest kids in the world.

And, you know, what's really very interesting is, as I introduce my bills

I, ME, MY!

What's really very interesting is; NOT you, you festering attention whore.

56 posted on 12/20/2012 9:52:53 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month)
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