Originally posted by Walfred:
...Keep in mind the 2nd stimulus package funded Americorp(1M man private security force equal to the Army)...
Please visit this link to Americorps. It does not appear to be a military force, so much as a domestic Peace Corps or maybe even more like the WPA from the 1930s.
Were you referring to a different group perhaps, or were you implying that Americorps would at some point be militarizing?