Why is the US Postal Service stockpiling ammunition? Also, why is the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration stockpiling ammunition? And why is the Social Security Administration stockpiling ammunition?
Why does the EPA have SWAT Teams? And why does the Department of Education have SWAT Teams? And why do 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 have SWAT Teams?
None of these bureaucracies are law enforcement agencies. It makes no sense for them to have armed, much less paramilitary, units.
A Republican (of course) Congressman from Utah is contemplating a bill to defund the paramilitary operations of regulatory bureaucracies. He will no doubt be attacked as a radical, extremist, Whackobird… because that’s what happens to anyone who proposes common sense reform measures these days.
Just last week I was passed on the Interstate by a para-military GMC Suburban with “New Jersey Human Resources Police” painted on the tailgate. WTF??
Someone somewhere must REALLY have a small one….
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/30/GAO-Report-Pentagon-To-Destroy-1-2-Billion-In-Ammunition-Amid-Widespread-Shortage
The whole thing is the Federal Government’s end run around Posse Comitatus.
You can’t spell Posse Comitatus without “PC.”
Passe Cometatus? I thought that the Constitution itself forbid military to be used within the borders of the U.S. except to defend against an organized invasion.
That’s what I see as being the end run around.
“Oh, this isn’t military, see. We are just trying to control domestic terrorists.”
I’m surprised that there hasn’t been a greater outcry about this. Then again, considering the fact that the man in the Oval Office has been elected to that office twice, maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised.
We saw the bureaucracy SWAT team in action during the Bundy fincident. Demilitarizing them is one possibility. Why don’t we send some to protect our southern border, and the rest to protect our porous northern border.
And then there’s your state’s Conservation Police:
“Bam bam bam bam! Open up! You took more than 5 minutes in the shower!”
How about having less armed home raids looking for raw milk like the queen of England drinks, and more jackboots on the border so I don’t have to lose another boyfriend to illegal alien drunk drivers.
Leftists hate the fact they would have to admit inequality in the ability to drink milk as genetic among those whose ancestors evolved in areas where drinking an animals milk helped them survive.