A Capitol police officer with an automatic weapon
Photographed July 28, 2011 by Edward Kimmel CC BY-SA 2.0 license
Posted on 07/11/2021 3:18:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Do we really want a nationwide federal police force accountable solely to a small number of legislators, not subject to FOIA and other citizen protections applicable to the executive branch? The Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police has recently announced the expansion of their federal force into Florida and California. Two new field offices will be opening in Tampa and San Francisco, due to claims from Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman that the number of threats against sitting Congressmen has doubled in the last year.
A Capitol police officer with an automatic weaponPhotographed July 28, 2011 by Edward Kimmel CC BY-SA 2.0 license
However, this isn’t D.C.’s first effort to implement a new national police force. Just last June, House Democrats voted to pass H.R. 7120, an attempt to nationalize state and local police departments across the entire country, disguised as legislation for defunding the police.
Is it hypocritical that the same lawmakers who have been calling for a total overhaul of law enforcement since the death of George Floyd in police custody last May, now want their personal police force expanded nationwide? Absolutely, but that’s never stopped a politician before.
However, the USCP is a completely different beast. Unlike any other law enforcement agencies, including federal ones like the FBI, the Capitol Police fall under the legislative branch and therefore remain exempt from being subjected to oversight like the Freedom of Information Act.
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“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Pelosi operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Washington, DC, when they arrested over 500 Trump Supporters, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The CaPos would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of the Democrats’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
With Apologies to Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Surely Congress can prevent this autocratic overreach by withholding funding.
If not, then seemingly nothing can prevent the “Capitol Police” force from eventually extending throughout the nation and beyond.
Gestapo
A police force that reports only to Congress and Nancy Pelosi, nothing can go wrong.
Do they get cool new uniforms and insignia, concentration camps and secret prisons?
The politicians very much want their own Liebstandarte, make no mistake.
Florida and California.
One state has DeSantis. The other an upcoming recall.
What a coinkydink.
This should really concern us - any wagers on when the try to put the nationalized “Capitol” police in charge of the national Guards?
There’s always an expansion plan when they start to trample on new areas of our FREEDOMS
All this federalization of police forces started with the Patriot Act, which in the inception of The Department of homeland Security, collectively making all cities’ police forces, a longer arm of the federal police.
Remember when YOUR police force had its own uniform choice, it’s own color cars, and NOT all the same military equipment???
“concentration camps and secret prisons”
We could ask the Capitol protesters about that but I think they’re kind of hard to get in touch with.
They have no jurisdiction outside of Capitol Hill.
The DC criminals must be gearing up to cancel a new Republican governor in Kalifornia and to cancel Gov DeSantis and any other patriots who support them
Hitler had a private police force
Hitler had a private police force
The Geheime Staatspolizei have officially been reincarnated here in the USSA...
However, in terms of actual population-control technologies, this latest version makes the original look like amateurs...
OTOH, being optimistic, there is only 999.5 years of darkest tyranny left to endure...
You noticed that.
Police has come a long way since Mayberry.
This will not end well
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