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Too Many Federal Agencies Have Created Their Own Private Armies
TRNS ^ | April 21, 2014 | By Ernest Istook

Posted on 04/21/2014 5:02:39 PM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
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To: trisham

Parking meter maids want their own SWAT teams to use against people who don’t pay their parking tickets...


81 posted on 04/21/2014 7:45:19 PM PDT by GOPJ (MSNBC reporters couldn't spot a criminal if he was at the company Christmas party.)
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To: Dick Vomer
100%!!! guess they never heard of Unintended Consequences...
82 posted on 04/21/2014 7:56:12 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Jim Robinson
And the locals are in on this as well -- thanks to the surplus military hardware fedzilla is "gifting" them.

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83 posted on 04/21/2014 8:02:20 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Maybe they are all going to war,against each other. Maybe the IRs and the Post office will blow each other up while the EPA and the BLM fight over federal lands.


84 posted on 04/21/2014 8:07:25 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Jim Robinson
I hope that the standards for security clearances are high, at least high enough to keep those who use Federally illegal drugs from such employment.

If the standards are so low as to allow pot users or other known law breakers, then we have a serious problem that shows itself as selective law enforcement.

Selective enforcement of laws is usually a political act - thus you have people who are subverting the laws without legal authority.

A first step is to ensure that "our" politicians enact legislation and swearing in allegiance's that prohibit selective enforcement of laws on pain of arrest.

85 posted on 04/21/2014 8:14:00 PM PDT by Jumper
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To: Dick Bachert


86 posted on 04/21/2014 8:18:04 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Blood of Tyrants; Jim Robinson
It goes much further than animal control and poultry inspectors having their own little swat armies.

For 30+ years now, tens of hundreds of billions of tax dollars were spent on government facility's, creating fortress like buildings/compounds.

We're talking automated pop up vehicle barriers, CCD/CCTVs, bullet resistant glass, barbed wire, guard dogs, electronic entry scans, automated doors to keep peasants out, secured guarded parking lots complete with video, body scanners, xrays, metal detectors, sniffing dogs, electronic recognition/eye tracking software and on and on and on...

This cost the tax payers many hundreds of billions and continues to do so.

87 posted on 04/21/2014 8:28:17 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: trisham
What has happened is that all of these agencies have spawned their own OIG groups with federal agents to investigate crimes related to their agency. I met a lady that was an agent for the Dept of Education. She mostly worked on grant and student loan fraud.

Don't know how this started.

88 posted on 04/21/2014 8:29:32 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: trisham

Why, b/c they have a box full of toys? If thats it I wouldn’t give it another thought. A motivated opponent will take those toys for their own.


89 posted on 04/22/2014 5:01:45 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Chode

Looks like we need to stop recycling those wine and liquor bottles. Might need ‘em later!


90 posted on 04/22/2014 12:30:49 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Chode

Looks like we need to stop recycling those wine and liquor bottles. Might need ‘em later!


91 posted on 04/22/2014 12:32:07 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Dick Vomer

Their purpose is to intimidate the population.
Over due library book? Swat team tears down your door and hauls you out in the middle of the night and kills your dog.

Meanwhile, the city of Chicago is a shooting gallery. No response. Violent Mexican drug gangs have set up shop in all our major cities. No response. One of the narco armies has taken over a FEDERAL owned park in southern Arizona. What do the feds do? Put up signs warning the public that this is a dangerous area.

The govt thugs are taking the path of least resistance.

Nowadays it seems that a person is at a much higher risk of injury or death at the hands of law enforcement than from the illegals.


92 posted on 04/22/2014 12:53:25 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is now the CPUSA)
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To: Dick Bachert
100%...
93 posted on 04/22/2014 3:35:04 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Dick Bachert

you may find this of interest...

MRAP Vulnerability Points

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/mrap-vulnerability-points/


94 posted on 04/22/2014 4:02:44 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Jim Robinson

Going Postal: USPS Stocks Up On Guns and Ammo: “It Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense”

95 posted on 04/22/2014 4:10:54 PM PDT by blam
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