Posted on 06/16/2014 4:02:13 PM PDT by stevie_d_64
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
“Here [in New Mexico], we are moving more toward a national police force. Homeland Security is involved with a lot of little things around town. Somebody in Washington needs to call a timeout.”—Dan Klein, retired Albuquerque Police Department sergeant
If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies. In fact, although the DHS’ governmental bureaucracy may at times appear to be inept and bungling, it is ruthlessly efficient when it comes to building what the Founders feared most—a standing army on American soil.
The third largest federal agency behind the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, the DHS—with its 240,000 full-time workers, $61 billion budget and sub-agencies that include the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)—has been aptly dubbed a “runaway train.”
In the 12 years since it was established to “prevent terrorist attacks within the United States,” the DHS has grown from a post-9/11 knee-jerk reaction to a leviathan with tentacles in every aspect of American life. With good reason, a bipartisan bill to provide greater oversight and accountability into the DHS’ purchasing process has been making its way through Congress.
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“with its 240,000 full-time workers,”
Americans own enough bullets to shoot every DHS employee 48,643 times.
Remember, one only needs to get ONE to have succeeded in their duty to the Republic.
That prayer is awesome BW...
“...or community organizer ...”
LOL.
The Patriot Act was NOT “fascist” as authored, THAT was part of Obama’s “fundamental transformation”.
I still say the best way to inspire our civil servants to do there best in our behalf is to visit their families at home and compliment them on their fine wife/husband and kids.
Make sure you bring them a nice gift and let them know you believe in sharing the golden rule.
No. They have become the United States’ Brown Shirts. That was the SA if I remember correctly.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps that we deserve) defense. The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NatCCC, or more simply, as the NatCs...
Sounds like NAZI to me
Soon we wuill see the logic as to why federal government agencies purchased those millions of rounds of ammo.
Goodness! Why, so it does, so it does. What a weird coinky-dink!
Wink wink. Nudge nudge. Get my drift? Get my drift?
Most of America is in fact unconstitutional....
What was that old telephone company slogan?
“Reach out, reach out and touch someone.”
Well, with that comparison in mind, I would submit that history WILL repeat itself again, with a modern version of the “night of the long knives”...
Considering that a ton of Flag officers and senior command officers have been “purged” already from the ranks (more than usual attrition rates)in the last few years...
I would think it has already begun...
I am not willing to bet on that being the norm...
No one I know, is truly bulletproof, no matter how well (or poorly) a person is “trained”...
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