Sound familiar?
Local law enforcement agencies all across America are receiving millions in grant money from the DHS to beef up tactical capabilities.
Advanced, military grade armaments, sophisticated surveillance equipment, armored vehicles, thousands of surveillance drones all being deployed against American citizens without our consent.
Folks, this ain't your father's America. We’z the suspects now.
Patriot act, NDAA, dissolution of posse comitatus, TSA, DHS, armed EPA, Armed HHS officers. An increase of 60,000 IRS agents. UN small arms ban, Law of the sea treaty and on and on.
Not pretty
....And planting the seeds for a second American revolution.
“Advanced, military grade armaments, sophisticated surveillance equipment, armored vehicles, thousands of surveillance drones all being deployed against American citizens without our consent.”
I concurr. The continued “militarization” of law enforcement scares me.
I am for a strong military for national defense....but that is against foreign enemies of the state. Only in the most extreme of emergencies should our “military” be used against citizens. That is why we still have posse commitatus - hasn’t been repealed yet. Only National Guard may be used for law enforcement, and only when they are still under state control (title 32). The moment they become federalized (title 10), they cannot be used for law enforcement.
Unfortunately, the folks in DHS are turning law enforcement into military forces to circumvent this. Law enforcement should never be heavily armed....they don’t need tanks, artillery, etc. Heavily armed helos and killer drones are way beyond what police/law enforcement should have available to them. Any level of law enforcement should not have weaponry available to them that exceeds what is available to common citizens...that is one meaning, IMO, of what the 2nd Ammendment implies. The founders greatly feared a “standing army” because the history up to the American Revolution, showed that traditionally a “standing military” was used to suppress citizens not just fight wars abroad. Fortunately, so far in our history, although the need for a “standing army” has become necessary, we have kept them from being used against citizens. The military exists to defend citizens from foreign threats. However, with the continued militarization of “law enforcement” (especially federal) we are in danger of a “standing army” (so feared by the founders) becoming a reality. Except they are called “law enforcement.”
I’m not one to be paranoid about law enforcement, and I respect the profession and the difficulty of what they must do. However, they do not need to become a “military force” at any level. If a “military force” is needed domestically, except for small SWAT and HRTs, it should remain the National Guard in a title 32 status. Even the small SWAT and HRTs have been abused.
There’s a *Tree* somewhere, which needs serious “refreshing”.
It is beginning to appear that the militarization of the police is what Obama meant.
You got it all FRiend. In addition to what you have said, the last precensus and census resulted in a discrete data base of the GPS location of every household in America. The feds can secretely use that GPS data base to locate your home with those drones in a matter of minutes, and search it without a warrant , from the sky. And they can also shoot your place with missiles.
Not only that , Obama himself likes to be toggling the go switches.
Not pretty indeed. A lot has to be changed, AND SOON.