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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Because the people are the enemy.
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
Because Bureaucrats are going to become targets due to their actions.
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??
Because the government considers the people the enemy
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
Well, since it’s 13 deg outside right now I could use that 1500W heater. Just sayin’...........❄️😯
Pedo Joe is heating up a mega Gestapo.
And plenty of garbage trucks to take out the bearcats, etc.
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.
That’s how totalitarian societies are controlled? Just a hunch.
400,000,000 is a lot of guns they face.
You mean “deer ambushers”. Deer “hunting” is a very far cry from military engagements.
They haven’t represented us at least since the Reagan days, and I may be a little optimistic with that assumption and timeline.
That hate guns in the hands of those who would oppose them.
They love control over everybody and everything.
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.
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.
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