Too Many Federal Agencies Have Created Their Own Private Armies

TRNS ^ | April 21, 2014 | By Ernest Istook

[Jim Robinson]

Does the Environmental Protection Agency really need armed agents? Outside of law enforcement, federal agencies now employ over 25,000 people as armed agents. They are more than guards. They’ve become like private armies that can push around private citizens.

Over 70 non-military federal agencies now have their own armed agents.

You expect armed agents with the FBI, the U.S. Marshal Service and the Border Patrol.

But the EPA? The Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, even the Social Security Administration and the National Institutes of Health? Even the Department of Education and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have their own armed agents.

As do the Food and Drug Administration. And Veterans Affairs. Even the Government Printing Office and the National Zoo. And of course the Library of Congress

Collectively, over 25,000 individuals now work as armed agents of federal agencies not usually associated with law enforcement.

These are not just guards. These agents go out on raids to enforce the orders of federal bureaucracies. No bureaucracy should have a private army to enforce its orders against the American people.

[pallis]

It’s just one big standing army with many divisions, and they all march to the same tune. We are their enemy.

[semantic]

They're not snooping on America's enemies. They're snooping on Americans!

You are conflating a government called the 'United State of America' with a people called "Americans". So, in that regard, the entity "USA" is snooping on the USA's enemies, which happen to the Americans.

[Alas Babylon!]

This should be something all Americans are against. Right or Left.

The Left love it as long as it promotes their causes, but they better believe someday they’ll be victims, too.

[semantic]

The feral grubment won’t survive. The house of cards will fall. Just a matter of time.

Exactly, which is why I don't understand the confused support over US action in Ukraine. Ukraine (and Iraq, Libya & Syria before it) is all about maintaining dollar hegemony. Without reserve status, the USA's ability to finance itself via printing money out of thin air 'evaporates' (pun intended).

The USA is so overstretched it cannot possibly meet all its obligations simply through economic activity and taxation. Like Germans opposed to the Reich, we should all be praying for the day the petro-dollar dies and we are freed from oppressive tyranny.

[achilles2000]

The agency heads are now minor warlords. The government is corrupt and beyond reform because the character of most of the people within our borders is beyond reform.

[tpmintx]

... If I were president, the first thing I would do is order the disbanding of ALL of them and order them to turn in all firearms and military hardware to the nearest military base equipped to handle them.

Which is why you'll never be president. You're not willing to continue the ongoing march towards Leninism/Marxism that has been happening since the 16th and 17th Amendments.

[null and void]

In obama's own words:

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008

He doesn’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense.

The official name is National Civilian Community Corps. I think of it as the NATCCC, or more simply as the NatCs...

[grumpygresh]

No surprise. The dictator said it all before when he talked about a domestic force as strong as the military. All the cultist LIVs clapped.
The Lincoln movie and the comparison with the dictator, the bullet buys, armored vehicles for police, the rise of SWAT raids, the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the world.
CW2 seems like an inevitability.

[RedHeeler]

Good.

[Bringbackthedraft]

These paramilitary armed agents exist solely to intimidate and frighten the peasants into submission................................ Ever think about how many armed agents working for the government agencies are here on this site as members? The job descriptions may warrant it? Wildlife? You can’t shake a bell to chase a charging grizzly. Terrorists will strike any place that draws large crowds or a place (site, i.e. Brooklyn Bridge, Statue of Liberty, Metropolitan Art Museum, Lincoln Monument, Hoover Dam, or the new WTC.) that will draw attention and make the front page or the 6 O’clock news. There are loads of Crusaders Criminals and Crazies out there to be protected from. BTW,I was pulled over for speeding by a wildlife officer on a regular road. I never knew they could issue tickets. Luckily he was a vet and saw my retired sticker. Even Brinks and Wells Fargo have their own army. Maybe I should worry, who knows the USPS may also have their own army, God Forbid.

[ilovesarah2012]

Congress? Do we still have a congress?

[Jim Robinson]

It’s much older than that. Not saying it started with prohibition or the income tax, but they put it on steroids. Outlawing alcohol ended up creating a crime wave so severe the people and the states allowed the federal government to unconstitutionally form federal police agencies to deal with it.

And the income tax—more unconstitutional federal bureaucratic law-making power and more federal police power and its own court to enforce it. Then the national parks and park service, park police, BLM, Forest Service, F&G, USDA, conservation corps, make work corps... ...The Fed, EPA, SSA, Medicare, ObamaCare, etc., etc., etc. I’m sure all sounded like good ideas (and more or less harmless) to their respective advocates at the time, but all unconstitutional and all against the founding principles nonetheless.

Now every damned unconstitutional federal ABC agency out there wants to write its own rules and regulations (laws), have its own courts and its own police force to enforce them.

Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile.

The unconstitutional federal behemoth is now so huge and so entrenched that it will now take an act of God to make this right again. And, fortunately, God did guide the hands of the Founders and, thankfully, they did write the final recourse for we the people into the Declaration that established and founded this great and free nation:

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

[x_plus_one]

The federal deficit means nothing when you can print or digitize as much cash as you need.

[x_plus_one]

Everyone wants to believe that a conservative president could turn things around given enough time.

[RedHeeler]

Hear! Hear! Hear!

[Logical me]

America is now a communists empire and a dictatorship. It cannot be overthrown with patriots now with King Obama’s militarized agencies. We are done!

Miss Romney yet?

[DannyTN]

This page lists Federal law enforcement agencies. Federal Law Enforcement in the United States"

It sounds to me like the Office of Inspector Generals are generally armed. Why I don't know. They are auditors. They should call the FBI or local police if they need them. But I'm thinking that's not a lot of people. Maybe fraud perps kill unarmed auditors if they get too close to the truth?

The VA has the VA Police, but reading their description that's sounds like glorified security guards. Same thing with the National Zoo Park police.

Some of this gets down to are they security guards or Officers.

[Logical me]

I would like to see a bill proposed by GOP leadership in the House, requiring the disarming of all non-military federal agencies, except the CIA, FBI, and Federal Marshalls.

The GOP does not exist. These cowards have let themselves slip in a hole and will never climb out. King Obama will be Americas first dictatorship. The MSM, communists Democrats, and the weak immature mind of most Americans let it happen.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

And, pray tell me, what are any of you going to do about it other than talk?

[RedHeeler]

GHWB, empowered that, and empowered the Arkansas Bandit. Ain’t, real life worth protecting? Yet? How about now?