Posted on 07/25/2014 2:23:47 PM PDT by drypowder
The Bureau of Land Management is a gestapo according to officials who testified at a House hearing yesterday.
We have the beginnings of gestapos in every government agency and they are growing in power under the perceived authority of the President of the United States who rules this country via executive orders and guidance memos without any congressional oversight. He is militarizing his executive branch agencies and letting them run roughshod over citizens largely without restraint and supervision. They cant be fired as we know.
One of the agencies that has become militarized and which has gone rogue is the Bureau of Land Management.
A hearing in the House on July 24th exposed a dangerous and persistent threat to our nation coming from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which is allegedly intimidating citizens, threatening their rights, and creating a hostile environment.
At the hearing this week, the following was uncovered: BLM has threatened witnesses to give up their property rights. Overreaching and malicious employee behavior goes without retribution. BLM does not care about any authority by law enforcement and will not coordinate with them. BLM law enforcement in Garfield County is totally uncooperative and unresponsive, Garfield County Commissioner Leland Pollock said in written testimony. Dispatchers have been rebuffed so many times by BLM agents that the county only contacts them as a last resort and with little hope for assistance. Law enforcement have been told BLM doesnt care about any authority they think they have. BLMs Chief of Law Enforcement overrides State Directors and costs counties a fortune. BLM is stealing land and buying up land under the endangered species act which is being abused and misinterpreted deliberately.
(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...
I agree... But I'd change that last sentence to:
...they rely on the FBI or Secret Service Local, County and /or State Law Enforcement.
Don’t worry Boehner and McCarthy will take care of it. :-)
Here's the sequence:
(1) Forest Service says "There are armed drug dealers in the forest growing pot. We need our own SWAT teams to go after them".
(2) Forest Service SWAT teams are formed, trained, and get premium pay.
(3) SWAT team members say "You know, if we actually go after drug gang members, they WILL find where we live and come kill us in the night".
(4) Management says "Hey, why are you guys just sitting around? This doesn't look productive!".
(5) SWAT team decides to raid you. YOU are SAFE to screw with.
...they rely on the FBI or Secret Service Local, County and /or State Law Enforcement. <<
Prior to 1934, the FBI wasn't authorized to carry guns and had to rely on local cops and sheriffs if they needed to arrest somebody dangerous.
It would be best if "federal law enforcement" were limited to .38 snubby revolvers, and required to get local sheriff's backup. With local sheriff having the option of saying "no".
Maybe my military background had them worried, but really, if they had sent me a letter of concern, I'd have been glad to work at resolving the issue.
The funny part is, even with a platoon of SWAT, they never even contacted, much less confronted me directly. After they arrested one of my partners for 'trespassing on government lands' and raided a few of our customers (we were mining gemstones) and had big 'puff pieces' of their heroics in the local-national media about what desperadoes they had on the run, we let the lawyers work it out.
I agree although there are federal crimes which also need to be enforced. The one caveat I have to the local, county and state law enforcement is to get rid of the majority of the Swat teams. Maybe just have a state swat team that is heavily looked over by the courts. Hostage situations etc. are fine but serving a warrant or suspected whatever are troubling to me.
Yep...
Although I’d be more generous... I’ll let them carry a Glock or even a 1911, for their own protection.
I believe you are right. And more than half of Americans are clueless. And they will never understand that they have lost America.
By the way, miss Romney yet. Do most of you understand the difference between Romney and King Obama. That round was lost and look where America went.
blm is an agenda21 agency, buyiung up land to get it off limits for people to use.
>>Remember, it was the FDR communists that referred to him as Uncle Joe.
And don’t forget that many of them were generally on the side of the Nazis until 1941 and the German invasion of the USSR. After all, the Nazis and the Soviets had been allies, and had split Poland between them, up until that time. So the friends of Uncle Joe were generally friends of Adolf until ‘41.
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