Too Many Federal Agencies Have Created Their Own Private Armies

TRNS ^ | April 21, 2014 | By Ernest Istook

[GOPJ]

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

[Chode]

100%!!! guess they never heard of Unintended Consequences...

[Dick Bachert]

And the locals are in on this as well -- thanks to the surplus military hardware fedzilla is "gifting" them.

[TBall]

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.

[Jumper]

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.

[Chode]

[dragnet2]

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.

[USNBandit]

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.

[556x45]

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.

[Dick Bachert]

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

[Dick Bachert]

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

[Texas resident]

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.

[Chode]

100%...

[Chode]

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