Judge Nap: 'I Was Shocked to See That the BLM Has Armed Troops'

Fox News Insider ^ | April 15, 2014 | Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

(VIDEO-AT-LINK)

Judge Andrew Napolitano reacted to the latest developments in the Nevada ranch standoff, telling Elisabeth Hasselbeck that the federal government has acted inappropriately and is trying to scare the Bundy family.

Fox and Friends played an audio clip of a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) special agent, who maintained that federal agents respect the Constitution and "understand free speech." He argued that the BLM was trying to avoid conflict, noting that some of the protesters were "holding rocks above their heads to throw at police officers."

Napolitano recalled that he was shocked to see that BLM agents were armed.

"The BLM is not a military or a law enforcement entity. I was shocked to see that they even have troops, dressed in camouflage and with M16's. It really looked like they were fighting a war against a foreign invader rather than enforcing a judgment against an American," said Napolitano, adding that the federal government cannot claim to have been respecting the First Amendment in this case....

[McGavin999]

Why on earth would the Bundy supporters threaten with rocks when they had guns?

[jospehm20]

“The BLM is not a military or a law enforcement entity.” Neither is Dep. of Ed but they also apparently have SWAT teams.

[Viennacon]

Nobody is surprised here. The BLM is another arm of the same Mussolini octopus. Those guns are for patriots, not criminals. They intend to seize land from all resistance movements, kill all men, women, and children who stand in the way.

[dragnet2]

I think animal control and code enforcement at the local levels has their own swat teams now.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[HMS Surprise]

An American time-traveler, transported from 1964 to present day, would immediately conclude that the United States had been conquered and subjugated by a dictator using federal stormtroopers.

[pallis]

All that ammo had to be going somewhere. Armed troops and a special forces operator are child’s play. The tanks and attack drones are coming soon. People must submit.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[TigersEye]

It shouldn't be surprising that people in the east and people who live in cities aren't very familiar with the BLM.

[acapesket]

you are right! That is Crazy!!

Let’s ask afterwards what these Puds are doing with the NE Flood Plain Zones by FEMA?

We, too are losing our property due to 10K insurance fines for living near water.. sum buddy gotta pay for Sandy!

[precisionshootist]

"He highlighted the fact that the armed troops cordoned off a small area for protesters to congregate, threatening them with arrest if they left that area. Napolitano said this was an "interference" with the constitutional rights of the protesters to express criticism of the government."

Threatening with arrest! He must have missed the part where they announced that protesters crossing the fence would be shot.

[GeronL]

Every federal agency is armed these days

[UCANSEE2]

The Border Patrol, FBI, DHS, and BLM can’t keep drug dealers and illegal immigrants off BLM lands.

But they sure are gonna keep those cattle off it.

[5th MEB]

The judge needs to get out of his office more often, almost every alphabet soup federal agency and agent is armed to the teeth now days.

[panaxanax]

“The BLM is not a military or a law enforcement entity.”

The judge is right.

How do they have the power to order a ‘No Fly Zone’ over federal land?

This all being orchestrated through Holder’s corrupt DOJ and he is getting his orders directly from the White House (Jarrett/zer0).

[Art in Idaho]

"The number of federal department with armed personnel climbs to 73 when adding in the 33 offices of inspector general, the government watchdogs for agencies as large as the Postal Service to the Government Printing Office, whose IG has only five full-time officers."

From here: Armed EPA raid in Alaska sheds light on 70 fed agencies with armed divisions.

To paraphrase Cliven Bundy, "This isn't quite what the Founding Fathers had in mind."

So, now what?

November 4, 2014 Tsunami!

[2ndDivisionVet]

What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts

[panaxanax]

“An American time-traveler, transported from 1964 to present day, would immediately conclude that the United States had been conquered and subjugated by a dictator using federal stormtroopers.”

And their conclusion would be 100% correct.

[Art in Idaho]

Great link! WOLVERINES!