Posted on 04/18/2014 3:02:49 PM PDT by detective
Military-style units from government agencies are wreaking havoc on non-violent citizens.
Regardless of how people feel about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over his cattle’s grazing rights, a lot of Americans were surprised to see TV images of an armed-to-the-teeth paramilitary wing of the BLM deployed around Bundy’s ranch.
They shouldn’t have been. Dozens of federal agencies now have Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams to further an expanding definition of their missions. It’s not controversial that the Secret Service and the Bureau of Prisons have them. But what about the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? All of these have their own SWAT units and are part of a worrying trend towards the militarization of federal agencies — not to mention local police forces.
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We have enough battle hardened vets to take care of these azzholes!
Assume ~1,500,000 total LEO, JBT, Armed Forces, etc
/just sayin'
They’re giving MRAPs to local police, including small towns, ferchrissake.
Well a bunch of jumped up forest rangers with tactical gear interspersed with a few mercs were terrorizing citizens until the Constitutional militia showed up. Then it was a whole nother siteeatshun. :-)
Especially after 9-11 people CHEERED the militarization of our police. Get the terrorists. get the bad guys. Get the thugs.
Wasn’t such a good idea, was it?
Hitler called it ‘Secret Service’
Stalin called it KGB
Obummer calls it SWAT
There really isn’t much difference folks, we’ve gotten right up with these thugs.
“Statistically, ~15,000,000 licensed hunters in US as of 2011
Assume ~1,500,000 total LEO, JBT, Armed Forces, etc”
Try not to get too comfortable with numbers.
Read Clear and Present Danger, by Tom Clancy. The chapter is called: The Battle of Ninja Hill. It’s fiction, but it illustrates what a trained and equipped force can do to superior numbers. Attrition.
Nah,Rambo wannabes.
Than you might be surprised that most are NOT battle hardened vets.
“Unintended Consequences” is my favorite!
The vets I knew from World War 2 and Korea did not want to dressup in camo and bully unarmed citizens.
I agree.
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