>>>I'm not sure they'd send in the blue berets. Wouldn't it be more fiscally prudent of them to just use the U.S. taxing apparatus (the IRS) to get their booty? Under that scenario, you'd wind up shooting IRS agents, FBI, ATF, whatever they send at you...
Tolerance is correct. They don't use blue berets; but they do use agents that receive grant monies from their programs to enforce their programs.
Example. Healthy People 2010 is a UN program that just got one of it's initiatives, National School Lunch Program, signed on to mandatory law. This program is to have it's grant monies monitored, enforced and audited by an agent of the program. They are using people from the NEA to enforce it. It isn't being enforced as a Federal initiative because the monies come from the NGO grants. It is being enforced as a UN initiative because the monies come from the NGO.
The NEA gets used because they are recipients also of the same NGO monies.
Another example is the newly signed on animal laws multiple states have adopted. NGO funded entities are training agents of their programs.
Example see this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1562040/posts
NJSBA Animal Law
This is not the only law office that trains people to enforce their interests; but you can see other NGO funded groups that do the trainings, ie., PETA, ACLU et al.
If you wade through the long post in post one, you will see these people are actually granted their own badge and powers outside state and local laws.
Did you hear of the USDA plan to attach unique identification numbers to ALL livestock in the U.S., done ostensibly to keep track of disease vectors (as though rats, fleas, dust, and wild birds NEVER spread diseases between farms and ranches). Anyhow, it's being presented as a public/livestock health measure, but it sounds kind of redundant to me. Don't livestock birth records and records of sale and, in the case of cattle ranches, brandings mean anything anymore? Or am I missing something here?
The unique ID number will cost between 3 and 20 dollars per head (look for your steak prices to go up), and there's even a requirement--correct me if I'm wrong--for people to report stray livestock! I don't know about you, but if I see a stray cow, I may report it, or I may not. If I do, it'll be because the cow is blocking the road or some such. Up yours, USDA.
Furthermore, I wonder how many on-the-edge small farmers will be put out of business by this measure.
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