Posted on 03/20/2015 9:04:20 AM PDT by Perseverando
Currently there are 73 federal agencies that have full-time armed officers with arresting authority. According to a 2008 report by the Department of Justice, there were 120,000 full-time law enforcement officers working for federal agencies and 24 different federal agencies employed at least 250 full-time officers. Federal agencies with at least 250 full-time officers included the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Mint, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Veterans Health Administration.
While speaking before the Constitutional Convention in 1787, James Madison said, A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. Despite this strong warning from our founders more than 200 years ago, todays federal government has quietly accrued significant policing powers in a wide array of agencies.
These federal enforcement officers are authorized to carry weapons and make arrests from Section 812 of the 2002 Homeland Security Act. This law authorizes the Offices of the Inspector General within each federal agency, which traditionally look for fraud and waste within the agency, to have officers that carry firearms, seek and execute warrants for arrests and makes arrests without a warrant while engaged in official duties. This section is rarely discussed because the actual language seems somewhat inconsequential. But in practice this law has changed how law enforcement is carried out at the federal level.
While there are federal agencies that should carry weapons and have arresting authority, such as the FBI, Secret Service, DEA and US Marshals, these agencies had this authority before the 2002 Homeland Security Act. They would keep this authority even if the agencies not traditionally involved in law enforcement activities lost their arresting powers. Unfortunately, the expansion of federal enforcement authority has been accompanied by an increase in the abuse of that power.
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Slightly OT, but this is the first time I’ve heard of Inland Border Patrol checkpoints. From the article, it is not clear who the “authorities” are:
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They put the armed police in the waiting room at the VA Hospital. I guess they’re worried about robbers coming in to stickup the Veterans.
This is why government employees don’t care about Veterans.
“You don’t like the fact that I don’t do my job? Security! Security! We’ve got a troublemaker here!”
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CWII Spatk Ping — the previous post said it well: In 1787, James Madison said, A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.
Tbey are dwarfed by the army that marches on Minnesota each year that numbers more than 800,000 strong, as they seek to take down bambi.
That’s 800,000 men and women, some chilun, who are well practiced, have excellent arms and plenty of ammunition.
That’s ammunition for the long guns they carry in search of their prey and doesn’t include the total number arms tbey own and corresponding ammunition for them.
They are further dwarfed by the more modest army of Oklahoma, who each year number more than 200,000.
If we use Oklahoma as a baseline and extrapolate that times 48 states, it’s possible there are around 10 million troops who are active each season.
The feds have 170,000 armed personnel and local law enforcement numbers about 1 million.
The combined forces of the feds and local LEO are not only overwhelmingly out numbered by a factor of nearly 10-1, that factor makes them an irrelevant force if only 5 million other Americans, who don’t hunt or rarely do but are excellent shooter, decide to join in.
The feds can only intimidate us but, realistically they would never be a match.
Particularly since that 170,000 could never coalesce into battalions, while citizens could easily form battalionsx many lead by vets, who are experienced and could construct sophisticated strategies.
Let’s take Oklahoma again. The most the feds could hope to bring together is a mere 20,000, maybe 30,000.
Again, the seasonal army of 200,000, for Oklahoma alone os 200,000.
If the combined forced of Texas Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas formed flanks, the citizen force would number over 1 million.
We would have tbe advantage of numbers, resupply, logistics of food, water, supplies etc, as their families would engage as non-combatants.
If the number of support personnel equals the number of armed men, then the feds would have to cede ground kr surrender.
It wouldn’t even be close.
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