Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) told the Salt Lake Tribune in a recent interview that he is researching ways to cut funding for the “paramilitary units” cropping up at federal agencies such as the BLM, USPS, FDA, EPA, USDA, etc.
“There are lots of people who are really concerned when the BLM shows up with its own SWAT team,” states Stewart. “They’re regulatory agencies; they’re not paramilitary units, and I think that concerns a lot of us.
Senator Rand Paul (R- Kentucky) also calls out this rather frightening government build-up, stating that the feds should not have “48 federal agencies carrying weapons and having SWAT teams.”
Obama has been creating a his own private military force and stuffing it inside various federal agencies. Just this past week we saw solicitation from the USDA for submachine guns and ballistic ballistic armor.
But not only are we seeing federal agencies armed to the teeth, we are seeing local police looking more like SWAT and military machines from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars making its way into the hands of local law enforcement.
Time to wake up America, not much time left.
Stewart wants federal officials to rely upon local law enforcement departments when the need for an armed response arises. The lawmaker is a member of the House Appropriations Committee.
There are currently about 300 law enforcement officers under the direction of the BLM, according to Interior Department representative Jessica Kershaw. The Bureau of Land Management armed agents “provide support on 245 million acres of public land,” although Kershaw maintained that the BLM does not possess “SWAT or tactical teams.” She also said the Interior Department division partners and coordinates with local policing agencies to “leverage limited resources.”
Clinton administration BLM Director Patrick Shea also weighed in on the issue with the Utah newspaper. Shea said that while Stewart’s notion of partnering with local law enforcement agencies is worth considering, there are also good reasons why the United States had not consolidated the policing agencies under a single umbrella.
“We come up against the old adage: Be careful what you wish for,” Shea said. “Besides the military, we could end up with a national police force. That could make black helicopters look like biplanes.”
The Stewart bill proposal would likely apply to not just the BLM armed agents but to their counterparts at the IRS, Social Security and other federal agencies as well. Last year in Alaska, 40 armed agents from the EPA conducted a raid over alleged environmental infractions.
According to a 2012 Justice Department report, federal agencies employ approximately 120,000 staffers authorized to carry firearms.
While the Utah Republican did not publicly pick a side in the Bundy ranch standoff, he did say he was shocked at the response of the federal government and feels the influx of armed agents led to the presence of the civilian militia. The day after Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie served as a negotiator between Cliven Bundy and the BLM, the armed federal agents backed off and returned the cattle.
The New American, which annually rates lawmakers in a “Freedom Index” report, gave Stewart a 60 percent approval rating and Rand Paul a 100 percent rating.
After the Bundy standoff Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said during an interview, “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over,”
No Incumbents.
Welcome to Obama’s Police State.
Why are our Federal Agencies becoming better equipped than our Military and our local police?
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/SS.html
You know why.
http://ow.ly/wVkM9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XA_yW7Z5OM
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/16/agriculture-department-puts-request-buy-body-armo/
Why do the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Homeland Security need so many weapons and so much Ammo ? They operate inside the United States, they need them to murder United States citizens for Obama.
http://rt.com/usa/us-homeland-security-bullets-congress-703/
http://www.infowars.com/dhs-buys-7000-full-auto-assault-rifles-calls-them-personal-defense-weapons/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/03/10/why-the-heck-is-dhs-buying-more-than-a-billion-bullets-plus-thousands-of-guns-and-mine-resistant-armored-vehicles/
Shut down the criminal organization they call DHS and give their equipment and weapons to the FBI.
http://www.truthandaction.org/dhs-now-raiding-flea-markets/
Since when was it the job of our Department of Homeland Security to harass, intimidate, and arrest little old ladies at yard sales and flea markets?
Shut down the Department of Homeland Security.
Our current Senators and Representatives have not seen to it that Obama has been arrested for Treason and that Eric Holder has been fired.
Vote every one of them out.
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Patriots and Conservatives care.
Liberals don’t care.
That is the difference.
No Incumbents.
They have not fired Barrack Obama and Eric Holder.
Vote every one of them out.
Shut down the DHS, FCC, FED, IRS, EPA, the Bureau of Land Management and every other agency that has worked with Harry Reid, Eric Holder, Joe Biden, and Barrack Obama and is too corrupt and criminal to continue to function as it was designed to protect and serve the citizens of the Untied States and not act like a Terrorist Organization.
http://ow.ly/wQxSB
Get out of the horrible monster we call the United Nations, they have no respect for Human Life, Human Rights, or Freedom, like Barrack Obama.
In Muslim nations women and children have the right to do as they are told and the freedom to be quiet.
Arrest Barrack Obama for Treason. Fire Holder, Kerry, Biden, and every one of Obama’s Appointees.
Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, and Barrack Obama’s lies about Benghazi are Obstruction of Justice and Treason.
Shred every one of Obama’s Executive Orders.
No Incumbents.
when ? in Obamaland !
The police started wearing tactical gear and using military grade weapons after criminals started using them.
Make ammo more easily accessible to legal gun owners also.
Free ammo?
when obama took over
Defund and fire all of them !
Why do you think the Dept. of Homeland Defense bought up billions of rounds of ammunition. ??? Think
months ago i posted a storm was coming, i can see it on the horizen and it isn’t pretty