A Dangerous Master
There Are Now More Bureaucrats With Guns Than U.S. Marines
And remember that only 1 in 7 of those Marines are in combat arms units; the rest are support personnel. Why, you may ask, do the IRS, the EPA, and the FDA need stormtroopers? Because government, as George Washington warned us, is like fire: a handy servant, but a dangerous master. We are perilously close to the point where that nest of vipers infesting his namesake city will make their move to become our masters.
Every vile organization of repression and tyranny throughout history got their start by claiming to protect the people: the Committee for Public Safety, the SA, the NKVD, the Khmer Rouge. They all had one thing in common: once power was theirs, they immediately began imprisoning and slaughtering their own citizens. Nothing I've seen leads me to believe that the alphabet soup of bureaucratic agencies in Washington would be any different.
If you would know the real reason why the Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment, you need look no further than our own capital city.
Open the Books, a taxpayer watchdog group, released a study Wednesday that finds domestic government agencies continue to grow their stockpiles of military-style weapons, as Democrats sat on the House floor calling for more restrictions on what guns American citizens can buy.
The “Militarization of America” report found civilian agencies spent $1.48 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between 2006 and 2014. Examples include IRS agents with AR-15s, and EPA bureaucrats wearing camouflage.
“Regulatory enforcement within administrative agencies now carries the might of military-style equipment and weapons,” Open the Books said. “For example, the Food and Drug Administration includes 183 armed ‘special agents,’ a 50 percent increase over the ten years from 1998-2008. At Health and Human Services (HHS), ‘Special Office of Inspector General Agents’ are now trained with sophisticated weaponry by the same contractors who train our military special forces troops.”
Open the Books found there are now over 200,000 non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, surpassing the 182,100 personnel who are actively serving in the U.S. Marines Corps.
And remember that only 1 in 7 of those Marines are in combat arms units; the rest are support personnel. Why, you may ask, do the IRS, the EPA, and the FDA need stormtroopers? Because government, as George Washington warned us, is like fire: a handy servant, but a dangerous master. We are perilously close to the point where that nest of vipers infesting his namesake city will make their move to become our masters.
Every vile organization of repression and tyranny throughout history got their start by claiming to protect the people: the Committee for Public Safety, the SA, the NKVD, the Khmer Rouge. They all had one thing in common: once power was theirs, they immediately began imprisoning and slaughtering their own citizens. Nothing I've seen leads me to believe that the alphabet soup of bureaucratic agencies in Washington would be any different.
If you would know the real reason why the Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment, you need look no further than our own capital city.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 08:45
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Defense attorney Harry Silvergate in a lecture, estimated that the average citizen breaks a Federal law THREE TIMES A DAY. There are over 27,000 pages of Federal statutes, along with over 10,000 regulatory compliances. This does not include State and local laws on the books, that is just Federal laws. The scary trend is that many of the new ones being written every day, the Gubment does not need to show intent to prosecute you for them.
In law enforcement in the past there was a Latin saying that said "actus reus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea" which means: "the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty". Let's say for example you are out in the yard throwing a ball around. You give a a good throw, and an endagered bird flies by and is killed by the ball you were throwing. In the past, it was incumbent on the state to show you were trying to hit the bird, but now, under new Federal laws, you can be jailed, fined or both for the same act. I'm sure you are like "But Davis, that is crazy, no such thing could ever happen in this free country of ours" Ask Dwight and Steve Hammond if such a thing could happen today.
The Hammonds are the farmers who were, in a practice that had been going on for decades, burning off the invasive Juniper on their land and the fire spread and burned 140 acres of federal game land covered with the Juniper as well. They were prosecuted and convicted for arson. In a plea deal, the federal government gets their land when they die or sell. Why would the Feds want their land? Some years ago, the Feds created a Federal reserve in the area, and the Hammonds were the last private land holdouts to creating the reserve.
Enjoy your freedoms while you still have em boys, because, based off the support ol' Bernie had among young people, they aren't much long for this country.
When they came for the Communists, I did nothing, because they weren't coming for me.......
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