100%!!! guess they never heard of Unintended Consequences...
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.
Parking meter maids want their own SWAT teams to use against people who don’t pay their parking tickets...
100%!!! guess they never heard of Unintended Consequences...
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.
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.
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.
Don't know how this started.
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.
Looks like we need to stop recycling those wine and liquor bottles. Might need ‘em later!
Looks like we need to stop recycling those wine and liquor bottles. Might need ‘em later!
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.
100%...
you may find this of interest...
MRAP Vulnerability Points
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/04/17/mrap-vulnerability-points/
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