Obama favors a nat'l civilian security force?

This really bothers me. Obama wants to create a domestic civilian national security force with the same budget as our military.

The stunning comments from Democrat Sen. Barack Obama that the United States needs a “civilian national security force” that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar United States Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force have mysteriously disappeared from published transcripts of the speech.

In the comments, Obama confirmed the U.S. “cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set.”

Campaign officials have declined to return any of a series of WND telephone calls over several days requesting a comment on the situation. Nor have they posted a transcript of the speech on their website.

This disturbs me on a couple of levels. First, where is the money coming from to effectively double our defense budget?

The more important question that comes out, though, involves a civilian national security force. That sounds alarmingly like a federal secret police organization. East Germany called theirs "Stasi", Nazi Germany called theirs, the "SD".

Here's a definition of secret police:

Secret police (sometimes political police) are a police organization which operates in secrecy to maintain national security against internal threats to the state. Secret police forces are typically associated with totalitarian regimes, as they are often used to maintain the political power of the state rather than uphold the rule of law. Secret police are law enforcement organizations officially endowed with authority superior to civil police forces, operating outside the normal boundaries of the law, and they are often accountable only to the executive branch of the government.

Now one can argue that Obama wants security from external threats, not internal ones. But the two are very closely related, and we have no need for civilian security forces beyond what we already have. We need to boost the budget of our border control agents, but we don't need a federal civilian security force like Obama espouses.