By Rich Kozlovich
For law and order people like myself this goes beyond disturbing. The purpose of an armed police force is to defend the innocent, arrest the guilty, to "serve and protect". What happens when we arm bureaucrats beyond what's reasonable or rational? We get the KGB, and society will serve them.....or else! And have no doubt, the corruption at the FBI and the DOJ is substantial.
Over the years I've posted and written about this outrageous and highly dangerous trend to arm these bureaucrats. Senator Grassley wants to know why the EPA needs a "mobile command post", what's it for, and who's using it?
“There was a pretty extreme edge to the regulatory enforcement agents that interacted with my constituents, especially in rural areas,” ........ “I was surprised to find that these regulatory agencies had armed police officers rolling up into my constituents’ properties to enforce their regulations.”.......
The EPA's response:
“Our agents carry weapons as a critically important public safety measure, for the safety of the agents themselves, and for EPA’s ability to effectively enforce environmental laws.”
Well, that's a load of horsepucky. The ethics of the EPA is abysmal, filled with radical environmental activists. These activist bureaucrats make up their own laws, called regulations. These are rules the Congress never sees, nor votes on, and they're out of control, totally destroying the rule of law. An excellent example is the EPA issues new WOTUS rule after Supreme Court slap down.
This came about over EPA abuses involving the Sackett family, initiated by a EPA bureaucrats in Idaho. And these are the people we want to be armed to the hilt? What we need to do is abolish the EPA.
Along with the EPA, why is the IRS, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the Small Business Administration, and more armed to the hilt?
NASA has it's own militarized SWAT team with "armored vehicles, submachine guns, and breeching shotguns. The Environmental Protection Agency has purchased drones, GPS trackers, radar equipment, and night vision goggles, in addition to stockpiling firearms." Why?
In 2022 Mark Hemingway published this piece, Bureaucrats authorized to pack heat now outnumber ... armed Marines!, saying;
The American people are learning by dribs and drabs that the raid on Mar-a-Lago was not only unconstitutional, it was a set-up, an attempt to frame former President Trump for having documents illegally stored there. The set-up proves the lie. Both the National Archives and the FBI knew said documents, which Trump was legally allowed to have, were carefully stored in a locked storage room. Many of those boxes were packed and sent there by the National Archives; they likely knew what was in those boxes better than Trump did. In short, it was a Gestapo-like ploy to both incriminate and humiliate Donald Trump. As the truth of the raid leaks out (such as the authorization of lethal force)............ it is becoming clearer and clearer that it is the FBI and the National Archives working with the Biden administration that plotted to create a situation by which they could indict Trump.
- The FBI raided and abused the family of pro-life activist Mark Houck,
for having shoved a man who accosted his son while peacefully
protesting across the street from an abortion clinic.
- Tina Peters,
a Colorado county clerk, had her home raided, her front door broken in
by a battering ram. Had they knocked, she would have opened the door.
- Consider the FBI-conceived kidnapping of Michigan’s Gov. Whitmer. Agents honed in on a few men who seemed easily led, and then provided the plans and weapons and arrested them.
- Even the ACLU has made a list of “The Ten Most Disturbing Things You Should Know About the FBI.”
This article, The murder of Bryan Malinowski on May 30, 2024 By John Dietrich is profound: