Posted on 04/28/2023 6:14:24 AM PDT by LouAvul
WASHINGTON (TND) — Billions of dollars have been spent over the past few decades to arm federal agencies with more agents, guns, ammunition and military-style equipment.
Founder of Open the Books Adam Andrzejewski joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat Friday to discuss the issue.
“Here's what we found in the books, we found in the latest audit that 103 federal agencies had purchased guns ammunition and military-style equipment,” he said. “What's interesting is that only 27 of those federal agencies are traditional law enforcement agencies. We found 76 traditional paper-pushing regulatory agencies.”
Andrzejewski’s investigation found some alarming statistics when it comes to just the sheer number of federal agents we have right now and how much weaponry was purchased for some federal agencies like the IRS and Health and Human Services.
“It is agencies at the federal level like the Environmental Protection Agency, or Health and Human Services, or the Internal Revenue Service like the IRS. As a matter of fact, the IRS since 2006, has purchased $35 million worth of guns ammunition and military-style equipment,” he said. “They actually own 4500 weapons, and that includes over 600, shotguns, 500 AR-15 style weapons and even 15 submachine guns.”
Ping
Violent Democrat oppression requires manpower.
Government increasingly arming itself to fight against its own citizenry. This is the only conclusion as one watches government suggest that many among us are “domestic terrorists” and the like. Akin to Pogo’s famous quip, “they are identifying the enemy, and the enemy is us.” So does it seem.
They’re scared of us.
“they are identifying the enemy, and the enemy is us.”
And that would be correct. That is EXACTLY how the fed bureaucracy sees those rubes out in the wilderness. There are over 2 million of them at last count. That is just those working directly for the deep state. Toss in all the lobbyist groups, the PACs et al the the number swells probably past 3 million.
“1) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imprisoned a 77-year-old Navy veteran Joe Robertson for 18 months for building ponds on his remote property to fight forest fires. The property in rural Montana was 40 miles from the nearest major river, and the EPA claimed that the one-foot by one-foot wide channel that Mr. Robertson used to fill the ponds was “commercially navigable water” and that he did not obtain the proper clearance from the Army Corps of Engineers in violation of the Waters of the United States regulation. In addition to the prison sentence, Mr. Robertson was fined $130,000. Mr. Robertson died in 2019, just a month before the Supreme Court overturned his conviction and reversed his fine. The EPA received $10.1 billion in funding in FY23.”
https://americarenewing.com/issues/10-examples-of-weaponized-government/
You can focus on weaponized government, but really that’s an expected side effect of government sprawl. Why are there 27 federal law enforcement agencies when the constitution is silent on the matter? Law enforcement falls squarely under the 10th amendment. Law enforcement is a local matter. Why are there 76 regulatory agencies to get in the way of the productive? Look no further for why American manufacturing has died and why the economy is so sluggish.
Republicans can’t stick to a debt limit and can’t cut spending. (There’s is no debt limit when every time the debt limit is approached, it is increased. There are no real spending cuts when more money is spent each year than the last.) Well GOP, there you have it: 27 law enforcement agencies to defund and shutter and 76 regulatory agencies to defund and shutter. Try doing that and see if things work out any better. We already know that more doesn’t work.
The enemy of the US government is evidently US citizens, and the government is apparently preparing to deal with that enemy.
So now the IRS has submachine guns. I doubt if those guns will stay in the weapons locker. After all, when a child gets a brand new hammer he starts looking for nails to pound.
Will this cause a media outrage? Of course not. This whole thing is a Deep State Democrat idea. And the media just loves Deep State Democrats.
and the more excuses they create to disarm the citizens.
Below would be a popular and simple executive order for a new President
Disarm the FBI and IRS. simply declare - FBI may not have, or train on, any weapons. Not even a slingshot.
If they want to conduct raids, they can coordinate with local police and state sheriffs.
The smell of their fear is enormous!
Let them have “green” weapons: paper straws and spitballs!
To become an elite member of the fearsome federal Rambos such as the FBI, a candidate must do one sit-up in under minute.
https://fbijobs.gov/special-agents/physical-requirements
You must also do one push-up or more in less than a year.
The beast is prepping for war against the American People.
Have met damned few accounting persons who can handle guns well.
“Look no further for why American manufacturing has died..”
No wonder so many companies have off-shored to China or anyhere else but the former US.
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