Obama has created his own private army and hidden his ‘soldiers’ in dozens of federal agencies in the form Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams.
Why would departments such as these need their own SWAT: 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?
“Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier,” writes Radley Balko in his 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop. “The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”
We are witnessing the militarization of federal agencies — not to mention local police forces – on a grand scale. With great force they raid homes and businesses of non-violent citizens, as we just witnessed with the Cliven Bundy atrocity.
With dozens of SWAT teams now at his hand, Obama has followed in the footsteps of other Marxist tyrants.
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.
“Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier,” journalist Radley Balko writes in his 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop. “The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”
The proliferation of paramilitary federal SWAT teams inevitably brings abuses that have nothing to do with either drugs or terrorism. Many of the raids they conduct are against harmless, often innocent, Americans who typically are accused of non-violent civil or administrative violations.
Take the case of Kenneth Wright of Stockton, Calif., who was “visited” by a SWAT team from the U.S. Department of Education in June 2011. Agents battered down the door of his home at 6 a.m., dragged him outside in his boxer shorts, and handcuffed him as they put his three children (ages 3, 7, and 11) in a police car for two hours while they searched his home. The raid was allegedly intended to uncover information on Wright’s estranged wife, Michelle, who hadn’t been living with him and was suspected of college financial-aid fraud.
The year before the raid on Wright, a SWAT team from the Food and Drug Administration raided the farm of Dan Allgyer of Lancaster, Pa. His crime was shipping unpasteurized milk across state lines to a cooperative of young women with children in Washington, D.C., called Grass Fed on the Hill. Raw milk can be sold in Pennsylvania, but it is illegal to transport it across state lines. The raid forced Allgyer to close down his business.
Brian Walsh, a senior legal analyst with the Heritage Foundation, says it is inexplicable why so many federal agencies need to be battle-ready: “If these agencies occasionally have a legitimate need for force to execute a warrant, they should be required to call a real law-enforcement agency, one that has a better sense of perspective. The FBI, for example, can draw upon its vast experience to determine whether there is an actual need for a dozen SWAT agents.”
Since 9/11, the feds have issued a plethora of homeland-security grants that encourage local police departments to buy surplus military hardware and form their own SWAT units. By 2005, at least 80 percent of towns with a population between 25,000 and 50,000 people had their own SWAT team. The number of raids conducted by local police SWAT teams has gone from 3,000 a year in the 1980s to over 50,000 a year today.
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The US Forest Service was put under the Department of Agriculture in 1908 by Republican President Teddy Roosevelt, with law enforcement responsibility over millions of acres of forest lands patrolled by Forest Service rangers. These rangers are the people that the right wing is currently having a freak-out over, “is Obama building a private army in the Department of Agriculture with these solicitations for guns and bullet proof vests?!” Freaking out about “Obama’s private army” that was founded by Teddy Roosevelt over a hundred years ago? CLASSIC!
They should be guarding our borders not harassing America citizens. Remember don’t trash our home.
ted says:
“They should be guarding our borders not harassing America citizens. Remember don’t trash our home.”
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I wanna see a freaking Predetor. Lots of variations already… I CAN SEE THEM NOW…
Defund them!
It’s funny how people are so naive. I’m sure over 7 million Jews never would have believed someone would march them to slaughterhouses and gas chambers.
These people if they do obamas will have chosen hell over heaven it is that simple. Obama is an emmisary for the devil and to do his bidding is to do the will of satan. You have a choice choose wisely.
Well how many armed Americans are in America nobody knows but I can say millions would fight and fight smart. It will not be pretty it will be bloody and violent if the government think they have us scared I can tell you everyone has allot to fight for so if they want to bring the fight to the back yards of America God have mercy on those who fight for a unjust President they may be Americans but if they are fallowing Obama’s orders they are American terrorist any groups that is out to take over Americans rights are terrorist
duaneh says:
“Your headline and the content in your article is deceptive. You suggest Obama is creating his own army, but your facts date back to George W Bush, which makes the credibility of your article somewhat questionable.
“Obama Private Army: Dozens Of Paramilitary Federal SWAT Teams Formed”
“By 2005, at least 80 percent of towns with a population between 25,000 and 50,000 people had their own SWAT team.””
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