"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
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No government agencies should be militarized. The Founders saw the dangers in even having a standing army, as they experienced it under British rule.
1) FBI HRT for hostage rescue/anti terrorism
2) USMS Fugitive recovery
3) DOE NNSA/OST teams operating under the AEA of 1954. Thats it!
Forget about the federal government ending this madness. However, all of these agencies have offices in all 50 states. They deploy from states, use state highways and local roads, they’re paid by taxes extracted from people in states, they’re dependent on state law enforcement cooperation. You get it? The states can shut these guys down overnight.
Couldn’t agree more! Including cessation of the militarization of local police forces by providing military equipment, gratis, to curry favor with the locals.
Don’t want militarized police units?? Then take control of the NWO ruling elite.
"One man with courage makes a majority." ~ Andrew Jackson
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I hope this gets traction.
He’s been reading my posts!!!
“Anything not forbidden is mandatory”.
“a relationship of trust is impossible”
That is where we are at right now. Its leading to civil rebellion. If the legislature does not stop this police state activity the civilian population will.
The people should form a SWAT team to arrest the SWAT teams.
The actual law should be both federal and at the state level.
The federal law should act from an affirmative direction, that is, by describing just who is authorized to be armed, to carry out court warrants, to have tactical resources and funds allocated for the above.
To start with, the military, the FBI, the US Marshals Service, the Secret Service, the Federal Protective Service, and several others, narrowed down from this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law_enforcement_in_the_United_States
That is, right now there are over 100 federal police agencies, a list that should be reduced to about a dozen, and non-police and non-military agencies should be stripped of both their weapons and explosives, and any currently authorized tactical teams.
At the state level, there needs to be “de-paramilitarizing of police departments” laws.
States must have a list of authorized equipment that police departments may have. Anything not on the list will be turned over to their county Sheriff, in their storage facilities, and on the books as the property of the state police agency. Likewise, only Sheriffs will be allowed to have SWAT teams.
Local police departments are prohibited from directly communicating with the federal government, except through their local Sheriff, and under the auspices of the state police.
Police academies will have their curricula adapted to insure that graduates do not engage in paramilitary actions.
Would that include the Capitol Police SWAT team? After all they aren’t a military agency.
