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Eventually, these police state tactics will result in a tragedy that people won’t be able to ignore or hush up.
This sounds absurd. Some additional details might say how absurd.
How much money was involved? Had summonses been sent? Why was a raid the appropriate means of contact when evidence enough for it already existed?
Which is either a lie or a misunderstanding. If you press the trigger and more than one shot results, it's full auto. Anyone who doesn't believe me is free to try to purchase one of these guns and let us know how it turns out.
ITS THE BUREAUCRATS STUPID.....
worse than the tax code....
worse than the media....
worse than elected democrats....
It’s unelected unaccountable bureaucrats (at all levels of gov) that we are paying to destroy us that is the BIGGEST problem.
Esp those bureaucrats with guns....
It is of course routine to handcuff people who are being detained. In my opinion, this was excessive and cruel to keep him handcuffed and in a hot vehicle for such a long time.
"He plans to re-introduce language he sponsored in the last session that would repeal the authority given to the OIGs in 2002 and prohibit any federal agency outside “those traditionally tasked with enforcing federal law,” like the FBI and federal marshals, to get their hands on machine guns, grenades, and other military weapons."
I would agree with this too. Unless someone is involved in full time law enforcement, there should be strict limits on supplying essentially untrained or inexperienced people with military grade arms and ammunition. As the article shows, these people will use lame excuses to arm up and break down doors. And for what? A student loan?
Per many FReepers nothing to see here.....
Brezhnev Doctrine,
Czechoslovakia, August 21, 1968, Prague Spring.
“We’re from SallieMae and we’re here to help you.”
A couple of years ago I learned to my surprise that the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency) has a heavily armed law enforcement department.
The FEDS should not have SWAT teams with the sole exception of use on Federal property.
All SWAT teams used against the civilian population should be under the direct control and responsibility of a locally elected Sheriff. All “no-knock” and SWAT actions should require the review and approval of an elected Judge. If the Feds want to execute a SWAT like action, they should be required to utilize the local Sheriff’s resources.
The unintended consequences of this kind of policy are horrible. Why do VA employees treat Veterans so bad? Because there are armed guards at the VA facilities. This breeds the attitude in the VA employees that they have bodyguards and can do whatever they want to Veterans.
Freeper Travis McGee wrote a book that parallels this outrage.
Seems like the Federal bureaucracy is stranger than fiction.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
We're armed so you don't have to be... 
“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...
Anyone seen the film Brazil?