Posted on 03/04/2019 3:46:54 PM PST by SleeperCatcher
President Donald Trump has certainly brought some welcome relief to Americans in the form of curbing federal regulations, but he has a lot more to do — as do his Cabinet appointees — in terms of, shall we say, ‘defanging’ several agencies.
They include the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and others that have been weaponized, literally, to ‘deal with’ — not serve — the American people.
As Conservative Review reports, the IRS itself has 15 “submachine guns” and some 5 million rounds of ammunition on hand, but the tax collection agency is far from the only one belonging to the federal government that is becoming more heavily armed.
Citing a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published in December, CR notes that several federal agencies are amassing weapons and ammunition at a rate that is frankly alarming...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
The beach town of Scituate Massachusetts has a (I guess) Iraq war surplus mine resistant vehicle. Big, black (of course), ground clearance of about 3 feet, bullet proof windows that are a half a foot thick.
Tactically, pretty useless alone. They could better use the money to fill potholes.
Eliot Ness was a prohibition agent which was a unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. You mean you are surprised that he was armed?
To serve mankind. No doubt.
Yep. I don’t trust most of my neighbors. One is on the quick list.
There was a time when civilians had access to and possessed greater firepower than the military. In the post Civil War West a cattle drive’s drovers likely had greater firepower than a platoon of US Cavalry. In the early 1900s civilians had access to the Remington Model 8 and Winchester 1907, both semi automatic rifles.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I don’t see any clauses in Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers that reasonably give Congress the specific power to arm anything other than the military.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 12: To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming [emphasis added], and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, not only are the EPA and IRS “federal regulatory agencies” not defined in the Constitution, but the Founding States made the Constitution's Article I, Section 1 to clarify that all federal regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in non-elected bureaucrats running things like EPA and IRS.
So not only does Congress need to take full responsibility for all unpopular and unconstitutional IRS regulations, but since the states have never expressly constitutional delegated to the feds the specific power to police the environment, the EPA can disappear until the states do so.
Also, regarding the misguided, post-17th Amendment ratification Dems disarming the public, please consider the following.
Consider that the congressional record shows that constitutional lawmaker Rep. John Bingham, using murder as an example, had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutional delegated to the feds the specific power to make civil penal laws until the 14th Amendment was ratified.
"… our Constitution never conferred upon the Congress of the United States the power - sacred as life is, first as it is before all other rights which pertain to man on this side of the grave - to protect it in time of peace by the terrors of the penal code within organized states; and Congress has never attempted to do it. There never was a law upon the United States statute-book to punish the murderer for taking away in time of peace the life of the noblest, and the most unoffending, as well, of your citizens, within the limits of any State of the Union, The protection of the citizen in that respect was left to the respective States, and there the power is to-day [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See bottom half of third column.)
From the 14th Amendment:
"Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
In fact, the congressional record also shows that not only did Bingham include 2A when he read Bill of Rights as examples of constitutionally enumerated protections that 14A applies to the states, consider the great irony that 14A gives federal Dems and RINOs the specific power only to strengthen constitutionally enumerated rights, including 2A, from abridgment by state actors, not weaken those rights.
John Bingham, Congressional Globe. (See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about in middle of 2nd column.)
Corrections, insights welcome.
>Owning weapons and ammo doesn’t confer capability in their use.
Correct. It does however allow one to use it to barter for other items. Can’t eat silver boullion, but is tradable for other necessities, guns and ammo no different. Even if you don’t own firearms invest in brass, lead and copper.
Yes, and we need to get back to those times and fast. Only the military and civilians should possess full auto weapons. There is no legitimate use for full auto in law enforcement. Our police are supposed to be peace officers not soldiers. The proliferation of SWAT teams using military weapons, gear and training has taken our police departments in the wrong direction. The police are at war with the people. They view every citizen as a "threat". It's simple. Arm and train a government entity as soldiers and they will make war and that is exactly what is happening.
We need to take away all military weapons from our police. We need to ban wearing any camo and black military BDU's and other gear that only a soldier would wear. The police should wear blue and blue only. The police should never have military training of any kind. They are not soldiers, they are peace officers. Soldiers kill people and break things. Peace officers keep the peace and serve the people who are the boss. We also must have a total ban on "no knock warrants". These warrants violate the Constitution in so many areas it's unthinkable how they have ever come to exist.
The starting point is the complete repeal of the NFA and the GCA. Join and donate to the NRA with the condition that this be their main focus. The NFA and GCA is the root of all gun control.
They came to exist with the blessings of Republicans and the war on drugs. Our own sins are important to note.
Their firearms and ammo storage facilities will certainly be a target.
I agree but it's time to correct that mistake. Judges sign these things by the hundreds on a daily basis. It's disgusting we have become so ignorant as to continue to tolerate this police state nonsense.
No knock = Two Widows at least
well put
What’s more, agents accidentally fired their guns more times than they did intentionally,
= = =
And I get in trouble for an accidental adding or subtraction error.
Mark for later.
Full Auto
They are arming up, but how many of them know which end of the weapon to point? These are a bunch of paper pushers who aren’t trained or even know how to fire a weapon without hurting themselves.
Against veterans and hunters.
Should be interesting.
well versed in .308 and .223
I wonder if it will still be upright after a collision with a cement truck!
Yeah, One could probably guess that 15 to have at least one or two zeros on it.
However I did see somebody’s tagline and said our side has 1 billion or so bullets and their side can’t decide which bathroom to use.
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