The State Of Policing In America
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 7:42 am
http://www.volokh.com/2013/02/11/the-wa ... ice-raids/
Deroy Murdock has an interesting National Review column describing the rise of abusive, military-style police raids:
Overarmed federal officials increasingly employ military tactics as a first resort in routine law enforcement. From food-safety cases to mundane financial matters, battle-ready public employees are turning America into the United States of SWAT.
FBI agents and U.S. marshals understandably are well fortified, given their frequent run-ins with ruthless bad guys. However ... armed officers, if not Special Weapons and Tactics crews, populate these federal agencies: the National Park Service; the Postal Inspection Service; the Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Labor, and Veterans Affairs; the Bureaus of Land Management and Indian Affairs; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Even Small Business Administration and Railroad Retirement Board staffers pack heat!
These “ninja bureaucrats,” as [Quin] Hillyer calls them, run rampant. They, and often their local-government counterparts, deploy weapons against harmless, frequently innocent, Americans who typically are accused of non-violent civil or administrative violations.
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Links at the link.
One raid described in the article is just what I used to see in anti-Nazi films growing up in the 50s.
What has amazed me is that the first person to take offense and take up arms against this sort of policing was an ex-policeman.
http://www.dailypundit.com/police-state ... -long-time
and:
http://www.dailypundit.com/liberal-fasc ... lice-state
http://youtu.be/fiY-q6Wafgg
http://www.dethguild.com/oh-snap-shit-j ... -real-son/
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/10/d ... /#comments
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=217285
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-1 ... os-angeles
http://www.dailypundit.com/law/is-viole ... nny-insane
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com/2013/0 ... orner.html
The end of Dorner: http://nicedoggie.net/?p=7650#comment-33857
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I really wonder what will happen when the gun prohibitionist try to come after the guns.
Deroy Murdock has an interesting National Review column describing the rise of abusive, military-style police raids:
Overarmed federal officials increasingly employ military tactics as a first resort in routine law enforcement. From food-safety cases to mundane financial matters, battle-ready public employees are turning America into the United States of SWAT.
FBI agents and U.S. marshals understandably are well fortified, given their frequent run-ins with ruthless bad guys. However ... armed officers, if not Special Weapons and Tactics crews, populate these federal agencies: the National Park Service; the Postal Inspection Service; the Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Labor, and Veterans Affairs; the Bureaus of Land Management and Indian Affairs; the Environmental Protection Agency; and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Even Small Business Administration and Railroad Retirement Board staffers pack heat!
These “ninja bureaucrats,” as [Quin] Hillyer calls them, run rampant. They, and often their local-government counterparts, deploy weapons against harmless, frequently innocent, Americans who typically are accused of non-violent civil or administrative violations.
========
Links at the link.
One raid described in the article is just what I used to see in anti-Nazi films growing up in the 50s.
What has amazed me is that the first person to take offense and take up arms against this sort of policing was an ex-policeman.
http://www.dailypundit.com/police-state ... -long-time
and:
http://www.dailypundit.com/liberal-fasc ... lice-state
http://youtu.be/fiY-q6Wafgg
http://www.dethguild.com/oh-snap-shit-j ... -real-son/
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/10/d ... /#comments
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=217285
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-1 ... os-angeles
http://www.dailypundit.com/law/is-viole ... nny-insane
http://freedomguide.blogspot.com/2013/0 ... orner.html
The end of Dorner: http://nicedoggie.net/?p=7650#comment-33857
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I really wonder what will happen when the gun prohibitionist try to come after the guns.