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.
If they are willing to shoot American citizens, then they can expect those same citizens to shoot back !!!!!!!!!!!!
Backed off so what did Obama threaten you with like all other media outlets. They now have billions and billions of rounds of ammo including hollow point which isn’t aloud in the battle field which I believe was set in the Geneva convention along with many other rules of war fair. And how about all the military armoured personnel carriers the bomb proof even if detonated directly under the a armoured carrier. And pulling all apache helicopters from all 50 states national gaurd units and putting them back in action in the federal armed forces. Also these armoured personal carriers can be equipped with some nasty machine gun controlled from inside. And there are so many other executive orders to many to count so explain all of that and the American people are getting sick and tired of blaming bush for everything which is total bull$#%&!@*. Bush ran two wars and still didn’t us almost 18 trillion dollars in debt and make America look like a total circus with lack of action on every major issues in the world and he freed those to level terrorist. Not to mention every lie that Obama and all his goons have said to try to get there assess out of trouble but thanks to Trey and his relentless questioning . there are a number of political figures being held in contempt of congress yet Obama says they are immune to such things and don’t have to answer anything I could go all day so nut up and tell the truth
Give up our guns? Not likely….
OMG! What are we waiting for? IMPEACH OBAMA!!! Geez!
“With dozens of SWAT teams now at his hand, Obama has followed in the footsteps of other Marxist tyrants.” Historically, what has happened to ALL tyrants that stained the earth with their very presence? The wheel is turning again, that’s all!
No more to be given to that!
Bad and getting worse, as we devolve into the abyss….and they use our money against us…now that’s a great plan!
Scary
these are the teams of thugs of Obama’s that the military need to stop now before they can get a foot hold in the country.
the person in our white house is a communist muslim terrorist his real name is Barry Soetoro a citizen of Indonesia his true identity is a massive cover up to destroy america if we the people don’t stand up against this