Posted on 10/16/2011 11:23:47 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Two centuries ago the Founders feared a strong, centralized federal government would establish a standing army, an irresistible force capable of crushing those rights of individual liberty which had been so carefully and deliberately crafted into the Constitution.
Today that fear has been realized, not with the American military, but in the increasingly disturbing form of paramilitary units and heavily equipped tactical assault teams which exist in even small town police departments and bureaucracies within the federal government.
In Waco, 80 lives were taken by masked SWAT team members driving armored vehicles in what one writer properly called an “…ATF publicity stunt gone awry.”
Three years ago over 400 children were wrenched from their parents by body amour clad assault teams carrying automatic weapons, all in response to a confidential telephone complaint of abuse which turned out to be a hoax.
In May of this year, former Marine Jose Guerena was gunned down, shot 22 times in a pre-dawn raid by a Pima County, Arizona police SWAT team which riddled even neighboring homes with stray bullets.
The “no-knock” search warrant which permitted the unannounced entry into Guerena’s home led to the discovery and confiscation of NO illegal contraband, just the death of an innocent man.
And in Stockton, California members of a Department of Education SWAT team dragged a helpless, handcuffed father through his front yard and held him for 6 hours in a police car, all because his estranged wife–NO LONGER LIVING AT THE ADDRESS–had presumably defrauded the Department of an unspecified amount of money.
From 300 per year during the 1970′s, Special Weapons Assault Team raids have exploded to more than 50,000 per year over the past decade,
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“There are more of us than them...”
I’m not so sure of that anymore....heck, I can’t even just sit in my house alone without recieving knocks on my door and threatening letters....All because I simply will not answer some very inappropriate questions.
Well we have had conversations about that very intrusion...We also know what the solution to that is...And the answers that ARE appropriate...
Just because the masses turn into sheep doesn’t mean some of those people aren’t against the principles we hold stringeintly to...
I didn’t even get a followup this time...back in 2000, I did...I told the guy I am not going to answer such intrusive questions, and that it is nothing personal against him...He smiled and said I know what you mean...But he was retired and just took on that position to get out of the house...
I told him I know what you mean...
That is why I feel confident that there ARE more of us than them...
I believe we are going to correct the course this country is on right now in 2012 (and finish what we started in 2010)...I just hope we can get there without another “ahhh sh!t” event/incident that will be a game changer...
This country is on a knife’s edge...Go one way and it will come inglued like we have never seen it before, simply because of the awareness of our population...
How we cope with it, if we have to, will set the pace for our future...And we had better be prepared mentally and physically for it, whatever happens...
Just my opinion...
“We have a real Stalinist vibe starting to emerge in this country. It’s sickening.”
Many of us have noticed it, Jack.
Too many cops trying to play TV “Cops”
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