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Why is the government arming more bureaucrats than Marines?
wnd.com ^ | 11/19/2022 1634 hrs est | Mark Hemingway

Posted on 11/20/2022 5:16:08 AM PST by rktman

A report issued last year by the watchdog group Open The Books, “The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies,” found that more than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests – more than the 186,000 Americans serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. “One hundred three executive agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted),” notes the report. “Nearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; bureaucrats; nationalccw
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To: rktman

Because the people are the enemy.


21 posted on 11/20/2022 6:31:36 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: rktman

There are 192,929 federal workers employed in the GS-1800 Investigation Group working within all Executive Branch departments, and in many large and small independent agencies with 3,800 employed overseas. Even small agencies employ investigators including the Federal Maritime Election Commission (3), and 15 with the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

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The largest employers of the Investigative Group are the Department of Homeland Security (130,343), 28,541 with the Department of Justice, the Department of Agriculture employs 8,126, and there are 3,802 employed with the Department of Transportation. All of the cabinet level agencies employ workers in the GS-1800 group with 34,265 in the GS-1801 general inspection, investigation, enforcement and compliance series, 42,442 in the GS-1811 criminal investigation position, over 20,000 in border patrol enforcement GS-1896, and 21,038 in the GS-1985 customs and border protection.

https://federaljobs.net/blog/special-agent-in-charge-gs-1811-2


22 posted on 11/20/2022 6:33:11 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: rktman

Because Bureaucrats are going to become targets due to their actions.


23 posted on 11/20/2022 6:43:02 AM PST by dpetty121263
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To: rktman

armed with power to arrest?
is this a copy Creedy’s ‘fingermen’ from the mmovie ‘V for Vendetta’?
is this the inception ofan ‘NKVD’ type secret state police?

we already have the DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA, FEDERAL POLICE, STATE, COUNTY/PARISH/CITY COPS!! NOT TO MENTION ATF, SECRET SERVICE, AND WHATEVER STATE DEPARTMENT TYPES.

AND, OH YEAH, WHY DID THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BUUY A BUNCH OF FIREARMS AND AMMO, IF NOT TO ARM THE SCHOOLS??


24 posted on 11/20/2022 7:05:53 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: rktman

Because the government considers the people the enemy


25 posted on 11/20/2022 7:08:49 AM PST by wny
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To: rktman

The Feds love their guns, while you vil be eating zeeee bugs and be happy with nothing. Not even your promised super compact//smaller than a Yugo// EV.

You will be ETF lucky to have an electric 1500 watt space heater


26 posted on 11/20/2022 7:10:49 AM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: dennisw

Well, since it’s 13 deg outside right now I could use that 1500W heater. Just sayin’...........❄️😯


27 posted on 11/20/2022 7:19:48 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: antidemoncrat
Start of a Duhictatorship.

Pedo Joe is heating up a mega Gestapo.

28 posted on 11/20/2022 7:26:43 AM PST by Stepan12 ("...To the American gulag with this guy.and with the beasts of the earth.")
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To: Wonder Warthog

And plenty of garbage trucks to take out the bearcats, etc.


29 posted on 11/20/2022 7:46:38 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: rktman
"Did you forget about needing F15s if you want to go there? "

Like every other statement Biden has ever made...that is untrue. The Viet Cong had no F15's. The mujhadeen had no F15's. F15 pilots and support personnel have to live and eat somewhere.

30 posted on 11/20/2022 7:47:43 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: rktman

That’s how totalitarian societies are controlled? Just a hunch.


31 posted on 11/20/2022 8:06:05 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: rktman

400,000,000 is a lot of guns they face.


32 posted on 11/20/2022 8:07:03 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Dumpster Fire Country.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

You mean “deer ambushers”. Deer “hunting” is a very far cry from military engagements.


33 posted on 11/20/2022 9:34:00 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

They haven’t represented us at least since the Reagan days, and I may be a little optimistic with that assumption and timeline.


34 posted on 11/20/2022 10:31:21 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: metmom

That hate guns in the hands of those who would oppose them.
They love control over everybody and everything.


35 posted on 11/20/2022 10:32:12 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Flint

This is the civilian national police force that Obama wanted....

Yup, just wondering how many illegal aliens will be in that civilian national police force. After all, he never specified what country the civilians would be from.


36 posted on 11/20/2022 12:49:59 PM PST by Neverlift (When someone says "you just can't make this stuff up" odds are good, somebody did.)
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To: rktman

I’d bet they have very little formal training, and do the minimal effort to get though it. And if they are what I have usually met as bureaucrats they will be incompetent. I think much more likely to shoot someone in a bad shoot, or accidentally shoot one another than to prevail in a gun fight.


37 posted on 11/20/2022 1:42:32 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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