Posted on 05/19/2004 7:42:45 AM PDT by sauropod
Sorry, Hellin... ;oD
If you will go back thru that link in #16 and scroll to the bottom, you'll see a link to Policies and General Orders. G.O. 48 deals with Special Operations.
"Can someone explain to me why the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission needs the ability to "clear a room?" "
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No, not me. I haven't any idea. My son's girlfriend is a fire fighter with the Forest Service. She refers to these gun carrying rangers as "twig pigs".
Do you suppose these units are the ones dealing with illegals on US forest service lands training to disrupt "safe houses"? Perhaps they are part of homeland security now.
Calm down, he's nowhere near me. ;D
"Saddle up the stove, mother, we're riding the range tonight"..
On the other thread on this same subject I posted an interesting tid bit of info. While surfing the TV channels the other day I stopped at an ESPN channel. It was a SWAT competition in Florida comprised of differant LE agencies from around the country including US Army SO snipers. After watching that eye opener it explains why LE has turned into a para military outfit, scary if one thinks about it.
Be happy to explain it to you. You see these wonderfully righteous Conservation people might run into those evil property owners, who take the second amendment literally, while they are planting some endangered species or evidence there of on said property.
Stay Safe !
I think these guys were absorbed into the Dept. of Homeland Security...The brother of a friend of mine worked for this group and used to patrol the waterways in his Whaler armed with a a pair of Oakleys, a Glock and a stainless 870 locked in a rack. His job was to oggle women, arrest drunks and speeders and keep people from harassing the manatees...after 9/11 they became part of DHS, and therefore, highspeed low drag door breechers...
A Game Warden in Texas has unlimited power to do anything,anytime,anywhere.
With NO Warrant!
Exactly. The contrast between the Fish Police with MP-5s, and civilian airline pilots refused pistols could not be more stark.
It would appear that every agency in the Fed wants to become a swat team in order to enforce their anti-native citizen, U.N. agendas. Hey, maybe the Fed plans to put them on the borders to protect our sovereignty, lol.
They should call the local half-assed JBT's to perform this action for them, not be quarter-assed trained to do it themselves.
I wasn't defending the action, just trying to explain it.
But I agree with you.
This is just one more example of government and governmental agencies totally out of control.
Legislators make these generally phrased laws to correct some real or imagined problem (gennerally the latter) and then the state or federal bureaocrats who are money-grubbing control freaks expand upon that legislation to issue rules and regulations which often exceed even the intent of the none too bright legislators who fathered the original laws. The said rules and regulations then tie up the poor suffering public in reams of idiotic red tape, legal fees, unneccessary exepnses, etc. This is done just to feed their egos, and increase the size of their staff so they can raise their salaries and increase their perks. Generally this occurs without the prior knowledge, input, or consent of the mass of poor schlubs it affects. The fact that many of these legislators and beaurocrats are attorneys and thus profit from all this personally, goes without saying.
Is this what Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill were for??
I don't think so.
I was wondering the exact same thing.
"Room clear......perps in cuffs, Sarg! Suspected contraband doe in freezer! GO, GO, GO!"
The Sovietization of Amerika continues....
We're rapidly approaching the point where there only thing we "peasants" are allowed to do is to work and pay taxes, while the samurai class is given total control over us serfs.
And I'll also wager that when you were a kid, it was okay to peacably walk down the street with a shotgun or rifle, even on school property.
Now the schools resemble prisons and anyone walking down the street with a rifle would result in a multi-jurisdictional federal task force attacking them.
It really sucks how bad things have gotten.
Hey, ya never know. Maybe they do inspections on pet shops with exotic animals, and an enraged shop owner might throw an Iguana at them! They have to ready for a threatening lizard.
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