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Chaffetz wants to take guns away from 'Rambo' BLM, Forest Service agents
Deseret News ^ | 3/8/2016 | Amy Joi O'Donoghue

Posted on 03/09/2016 6:34:45 PM PST by kitchen

SALT LAKE CITY — Law enforcement agents with the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service are too "Rambo" to Rep. Jason Chaffetz's liking, so he wants to take away their guns and authority.

"These agents are more Rambo and less Andy Griffith than I would like," he told the Deseret News Tuesday.

Chafftez, R-Utah, said he plans to introduce a bill next week to strip those two agencies of their law enforcement authority and instead set up a system of block grants to states with a lot of federal lands within their borders to augment local law enforcement response.

"Let's not kid ourselves. The blood pressure is running high, especially in southern Utah, and I don't want anyone to get killed," Chaffetz said, adding his bill has the endorsement of his Utah colleagues in the House ...

~snip~

"I want to know what kind of arsenal they have. I'm met with blank stares," he said. "They're wholly unresponsive. They don't feel compelled to answer our letters."

He said the BLM abruptly canceled its contracts with local county sheriff's offices in Utah ...

Chaffetz said it makes more sense to have elected county sheriffs with public accountability in charge of law enforcement functions in their own geographic areas.

~snip~

(Excerpt) Read more at m.deseretnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; US: New York; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2ndamendment; banglist; blm; election2016; guncontrol; jasonchaffetz; newyork; secondamendment; trump; utah
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To: Rome2000
Chaffetz is a moron cult member and needs to be watched carefully.

Evidently, even such as that get it right once in a while....

21 posted on 03/10/2016 4:02:03 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: gaijin
We have given machine-guns to drunk Boy Scouts.


More like drunk high school hall monitors

It's a really, really bad idea to give guns to non law enforcement civil servants such as Firemen, Park Rangers, BLM employees much less some of the other government employees we have armed

22 posted on 03/10/2016 4:07:15 AM PST by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Millera)
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To: rdcbn

“Civil servants”...what a pathetic joke.


23 posted on 03/10/2016 4:08:36 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: kitchen
"These agents are more Rambo and less Andy Griffith than I would like," he told the Deseret News Tuesday.

You could say that about half the police departments in the country.

24 posted on 03/10/2016 4:16:01 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Rome2000
Thank you for demonstrating the argumentum ad hominem fallacy.
25 posted on 03/10/2016 4:18:57 AM PST by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: savagesusie

Which ones? I know a guy that works at BLM. He doesn’t see any guns, or anyone that wouldn’t be afraid of one.


26 posted on 03/10/2016 12:41:49 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: savagesusie
BLM is nothing but setting up a private military for that evil obama-—nothing but Brownshirts.

That explains the door mounts for machineguns reportedly being fitted on some BLM helicopters.

Remember: turn about is fair play....


27 posted on 03/11/2016 11:12:12 AM PST by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: archy; LucyT

Speaking of Brownshirts, see second link for Part II released yesterday I believe http://sheriff.deschutes.org/March_8_press.pdf

or to be more graphic read how they began shooting at Finicum as he came up to the deadmans roadblock, they also admit his hands were up when he exited the vehicle. http://sheriff.deschutes.org/Media/OIS-Updates/Finicum_Redacted_Web_03142016_PartII.pdf


28 posted on 03/15/2016 9:17:57 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: Abbeville Conservative; abigailsmybaby; afnamvet; alley cat; antceecee; APatientMan; xzins; ...

Ping to number 28 for part II of the document dump investigation of the Killing of LaVoy Finicum


29 posted on 03/15/2016 9:21:42 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: azkathy

You are free to read for yourself at the link above, but here is an excerpt. page 123 of the Narrative “Trooper #3 heard an unidentified member of the north containment area fire a few shots at the pickup truck.” This was before they went off into the snowbank.

It continues, “Trooper #3 saw that Finicum’s hands were raised up and there was nothing in his hands.”

When you add this up with the documents released RE Oregon Governors communications, the FBI are criminals in this case. They clearly controlled the Press and the narrative from the beginning. See page 422 “Reporter told to not cooperate with FBI by editor. Omg. OK. Heard it is WW Reporter. He has photos and other evidence. It may get seized.”

By the way, the Governor was also in communication with Loretta Lynch, the White House and Sally Jewel just to name a few. Info here, http://www.veritasresearchconsulting.com/Gov/Oregon-Governor_Office-Malheur_Refuge_Emails.pdf


30 posted on 03/15/2016 9:41:18 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: gaijin

NOAA has a SWAT team.


31 posted on 03/15/2016 9:46:50 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad

I am curious have you seen the full video from Shawna Cox cell phone?

I don’t hear LaVoy cussing, do you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjM5tPTWMFs&feature=share


32 posted on 03/15/2016 10:58:50 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: azkathy

I don’t care. I was commenting on the fed agencies all having SWAT teams.


33 posted on 03/15/2016 11:01:34 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: azkathy

Right around the 6:00 mark when Ryan Bundy tried to open the door, more shots rang out. This is like a mafia hit. Can you imagine being in that vehicle?


34 posted on 03/15/2016 11:01:37 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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