martial law before the election...
Federal Marshalls have been around for a long time. How do they fit into this meme?? Certainly I agree that all the alphabet soup agencies should NOT have armed enforcement branches, but I thought that the FM’s were supposed to fulfill that function for all the agencies (i.e. if they needed a warrant enforced, they called in the FM’s).
***There’s no constitutional justification for 150,000 federal cops ***
Back in the late 1960s and early ‘70s there was a fear that the US was being set up by the news media to sstart a “Federal Police Force.”
Has it now happened?
As far as federal police go, a simple act of congress could solve most of our problems.
Start with the disarming of non-police agencies in the USG. Then consolidate the 70+ agencies into about half a dozen.
“You used to be an armed officer of the Department of Education? Now you work for the FBI, and are *attached* to Education. Your boss is in the FBI, and you answer to him. If Education needs you, they ask your boss.”
Most of Homeland Security is either busted up or put into ICE and the Border Patrol.
Airport security will be handled by the airports, and by act of congress, they may use profiling as part of their security operations, and be immune from lawsuits for doing so.