Comment Number: 05-02582-EREG-235-d7391-c32381
Received: 3/16/2005 8:00:00 AM
Subject: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment
Title: National Security Personnel System
CFR Citation: 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901
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Comments:

Docket Number: NSPS-2005-001

I am writing this letter to state that I am opposed to the proposed implementation of the new Department of Defense (DOD) National Security Personnel System (NSPS). My comments are general in nature because I am responding to the general tone of the proposed rule presented in the Federal Register, dated February 14, 2005. That tone, to me, was anti employee rights and offensive in the manner that it suggested repeatedly that Federal Civilians are not supportive of the security interests of the United States of America. As a person who has worked for DOD for nearly twenty-six years and served with my husband for twenty years of his military career, I find the attitude that Federal Civilian Workers need to be resigned in and controlled by establishing a Patriot Act on the suspension of their rights, offensive.

DOD workers are not terrorists or enemies to the security of this nation. American (Federal) workers have worked have worked so hard to protect our nation for over two centuries and now it seems that we are the threat to our "own" National Security. How utterly absurd!

We are not the enemy here, and blame for the events of September 11, 2001 certainly can't be laid at the feet of the Civilian workforce. It seems clear to me that that event is being used as the justification to discard a Personnel Management System that needed upgrading and replace it with a system that appears, thoughout, to be an assult on those rights and benefits that loyal and dedicated workers, at home and abroad, worked so hard to acheive. I anticipate that (NSPS) will foster an atmosphere of hostile relationships between workers, supervisors, and managers.

My impression of America is that we are a free nation. With (NSPS) it appears you are trying to take away rights of free speech. If you can't have a discussion with your supervisor over your rating without being reprimanded, or even fired, then freedom is jeapordized. I strongly urge you to reconsider this proposal and stop trying to destroy the Department of Defense (DOD) workers. I am not opposed to change, but I am opposing what I have read so far on the National Security Personnel System (NSPS). Everyone should have a right to voice their opinion, to stand up for their rights, and to fight for their beliefs, benefits, and job security.