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12/30 Why does the EPA, Department of Interior, the IRS,
soon NASA, ... basically every branch of government
have SWAT teams?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/598950/posts
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| www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/598950/posts I did a search and didn't find it so sorry if it is a repeat. I've only posted a portion as it is long but a must read. Men can resist without weapons, freedoms, rights, housing, or anything else EXCEPT air, food and water. Collectivisation in the Soviet Union was not about controll of agriculture in and of itself. In August and September 1997, the fledgling newssite published a series of articles titled "Armed and Dangerous: Federal agencies expanding use of firepower" that detailed the increasing federalization of law enforcement and the astonishing buildup in the numbers of armed officials. The first story focused not on the BATF, FBI or Drug Enforcement Administration, but on the National Park Service, one of the five agencies within the Department of Interior with law enforcement authorities. The Park Service in January 1997 had conducted a mid-morning SWAT raid on a private bow-and-arrow hunting lodge on Santa Cruz Island, one of the Channel Islands off the California coast. Twenty heavily armed National Park Service law enforcement officers and local sheriff deputies descended on ropes from a military helicopter. Snipers took up their positions along the perimeter, while other agents staged dynamic entries. The raid resulted in the arrests of three unarmed men on charges of robbing Chumash Indian graves, but its real target was the 6,500-acre hunting ranch on which the lodge was located. The ranch, which covered 10 percent of the island, was the last bastion of private property in the group of islands that Congress had declared a national park. Congress had recently authorized the NPS to seize the ranch through condemnation, but apparently the Park Service saw an opportunity to provide its agents with some on-the-job training in special weapons and tactics. Marshals Service launched its attack on Randy Weaver and his family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Scott's property was in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, a sweeping expanse of coastal land under the auspices of the National Park system. County Sheriff's Department, but the Park Service was the lead agency. The purported reason for the assault was an allegation by the Park Service that Scott was growing marijuana, but internal departmental documents show clearly that the true motivation was a desire to acquire Scott's very beautiful and valuable property, which he had refused to sell. These accounts illustrated the kind of power National Park Service agents already possessed and were willing and able to deploy. They have full arrest and firearm authority granted by statute, though its exercise is limited to NPS-controlled land. WorldNetDaily also presented figures showing the number of gun-toting agents, not only in the NPS but throughout the federal agencies. We've seen a lot of crazy stuff come from our federal government and some of the crazy stuff pre-dates Clinton, so I think this article should be taken seriously. Click on Source:WorldNetDaily and bring up their copy of it or do a search on WND and track down the original. Under legislation drafted but not yet introduced No names, no sources, nothing but shady implications and innuendo. This is Sarah Foster taking a SWAG and carrying it to the fifth decimal place. But anything could be "drafted but not yet introduced"- absolutely anything, there is a long way from that to a law. The bill I cited is the only current bill having to do with calrifying DOI law enforcement powers. If it is introduced as stated, then at least I'll have a head start on mailing all those concerned. I bet America could put an army of 2,000,000 or more on the street tomorrow if "needed". Probably about one "officer" for every 10 or 12 citizens. If that guesstimate is close, I could call that a police state. There is a lot of crime and the govt lands have their share. The NPS has a webpage called The Morning Report that reports much of this type of activity. I bet America could put an army of 2,000,000 or more on the street tomorrow if "needed". Probably about one "officer" for every 10 or 12 citizens. If that guesstimate is close, I could call that a police state. We need more accoutability from the government, not less! It sounds like this draft, but authority is limited to BOR territory, and other offensive parts are missing (though some offensive parts are still in it). I think we should be more immediately concerned with it than the reported draft. First, a cabinet secretary cannot sign a bill into law, only the president after it is passed by the House and Senate. The only way Interior could make such a move is through regulation and it would have to be published first in the federal register. It's typical for agencies to have drafts to supply to congressmen on bills that affect the agency. Thank God our forefathers made implementing laws so difficult. First without my disclosing "all" that I know I can say with surety that the removal of the websites was done for specific security reasons which had as their rational only the "litmus test" of common sense. I can also say that information that had been previously posted at the EPA, NRC, DOE has also been removed as "common sense" dictated that that was the righ thing to do. When the transportation department "grounded all flights" that was an act that had no "public comment period" and yet probably saved many lives on 9-11. I would hold my hand on a bible and attest to that and/or state "I smell the smell of shit" when there is a turd in the punchbowl and the "beltway crowd" pronounces it as fit to drink. THAT CLOSURE OF WEBSITES HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LETTER YOU MENTION. We elected these clowns and they appointed the bureaucrats who circumvent the Constitution by "fiat". The reason Canada and Mexico are being dollarized is so their economies don't collapse in the final move to world government. After that is completed, in 2003 and 2004 Central and South America will be amalgamated into the North and South American Union whose central bank will be in Washington and known as the North and South American Central Bank. These are not the exact names, but this is a close approximation. During that period Asia will be merged and the final step probably in 2006-2008 will be the formation of World Government and a world currency. Dollarization is a very important part of the plans of the ruling-class elite in its goal to submerge US sovereignty and our national independence into subservience for Americans. We have been reading Foreign Affairs, the house literary organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, since 1963 and we are positive this is what these elitists have in store for us. If you don't think this is possible just look at what our president has done by executive order and no one dares complain, least congress. By executive order he has usurped the Constitution, ended habeas corpus and search and seizure can be executed without a warrant. The massive economic meltdown now being accomplished by manipulating stock markets, currencies and commodities, particularly silver and gold, is being implemented and covered by bogus wars. You are about to be the recipient of the biggest propaganda barrage in history, justifying and supporting the new policy. The cheerleaders are all in place, Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, etc. It has nothing to do with commerce and everything to do with people control. If you just read the CFR literature since WWII you can see every disaster in the ensuing years was planned by the CFR, the next one is a regional currency, like the euro is for Europe, that is to be our sordid destiny. It gives DOI police powers, though only on Reclamation lands. What was e-mailed to me was an link to an article on WorldNetDaily. The article clearly states that the legislation has not been introduced yet. The courts decision that the Interior make accountability to plaintiff parties is evident that our system works while imperfect. The concept that an employee who is also a "class action" member of the suit can leak information is absurd. That department has an obligation to do two things: keep confidential information secure, make public information available, and operate... |
| www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/558735/posts As we gather today, there is an insidious conspiracy underway just across the Potomac River in our nation's capital. This is not a conspiracy that meets in dark rooms in the dead of night. The co-conspirators don't identify themselves with a secret handshake and a code word. The conspiracy I'll be discussing today meets in a much different environment. Some of their offices bear names we all know -- the Departments of Justice, Transportation, or Health and Human Services. Others are more obscure, such as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National Institutes of Health, or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. The members of this conspiracy have different motivations, most appear quite benign on the surface. Some want to acquire new law enforcement powers to fight criminals. Others would like to construct new databases to "ease" our entry into the new information age. Some are motivated by a desire to do good, others simply want to get a larger allocation of the federal budget. Many of the members of this conspiracy don't know each other, work together, or even subscribe to the same political philosophy. In fact, "co-conspirator" is probably the wrong word to use when describing a network of people who are so loosely affiliated. A more accurate way to put it is, they are simply people united by a common goal; In a nutshell, they support enlarging the power and size of the federal government with little or no regard for the most precious right each of us has; If allowed to continue, their efforts will irresistibly and inevitably culminate in a society in which the freedom and judgement of individuals, is completely replaced by the restriction and uniformity of federal regulation. Lest you think I haven't done my homework or that I'm jumping to conclusions too quickly, I'll tell you about several specific rights that are disappearing even as we sit here today. Throughout, I hope you'll remember my views have been shaped not only by my work in the Congress, but also by the years I spent as a United States Attorney in the Department of Justice and as an employee with the Central Intelligence Agency. These years have left me with some knowledge of the vast power of the federal government. Power that can -- and should -- be used to protect life and liberty; Some of you may be familiar with a situation that came to light as the 105th Congress was sputtering to a close last year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attempted to institute procedures requiring that every state adopt an explicit laundry list of federally mandated characteristics for driver's licenses -- a National ID card, if you will. However, the further danger of these proposed regulations lay in its mandate that every American have their federal Social Security number permanently identified with their state drivers license. If this regulation had been implemented, anyone who wished to be allowed to drive on the roads paid for with their tax dollars, would first have to produce a Social Security number and have it printed on their drivers licenses. Putting aside for purposes of argument what a government with totalitarian leanings could do with this information, imagine what might occur if your Social Security number and drivers license didn't match up due to nothing more than a bureaucratic snafu. You might not be able to board a plane, see a doctor, or register a child in school; You would instantly be the subject of heavy scrutiny by suspicious law enforcement officers, bureaucrats, regulators and commercial credit institutions. Fortunately, in the last weeks of the 105th Congress we were able to delay the implementation of this regulation for a year in order to buy more time to block it permanently. This happened because civil libertarians -- liberal and conservative activists -- from the ACLU to Eagle Forum and from CATO to the Christian Coalition, stood firm, and kept fighting, until we succeeded in blocking this ill-advised move, at least temporarily. However, we discovered an interesting thing when we traced it back to its source. Turns out the authority for this draconian regulation was quietly slipped into a spending bill under a Republican-led Congress, with no debate and no separate vote, but with the ostensible goal of reducing illegal immigration. This same over-reaction to often legitimate law-enforcement needs, is also regrettably evident in the wake of catastrophes, such as airline crashes or terrorist bombings. For example, following the tragic bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City, the Clinton Department of Justice immediately leapt forward to grab all sorts of new law enforcement powers, none of which would have done a single thing to prevent the bombing if they had been in place. Again, a coalition of civil liberties groups, from the National Rifle Association to the Libertarian Party, was able to substantially reduce the intrusiveness of legislation passed following the bombing. But we had to fight virtually the entire leadership of the Congress, and initially a majority of both Democrat and Republican members, in order to stop the most egregious provisions of the bill from becoming law. We see the same tendency in the wake of airline disasters. Never mind that your odds of dying in an airline crash are about 1 in 7 million, as opposed to a 1 in 600,000 chance of choking to death, or a 1 in 5,000 chance of dying in an auto accident. Whenever an aircraft crashes, we are greeted with new restrictions on travel at airports and calls for new federal power to crack down on suspected terrorists. Following the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, before the black boxes had even been found, and while most people in positions of leadership automatically assumed a terrorist bomb caused the crash, GOP and Democrat leaders took to the airwaves to push for further "anti-terrorist" law enforcement funding and powers. Remember, this was only a few months after the omnibus 1996 anti-terrorism bill was signed, and while most of the billions of dollars it authorized were not even appropriated yet. However, it is poised to enter a new, dangerous, and possibly irreversible phase. And, as we all have seen, the Clinton Administration remains committed to an all-out campaign to deprive law-abiding citizens of their constitutionally-guaranteed right to keep and bear arms. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is continuing its efforts to establish records of law-abiding gun owners despite the fact that federal laws -- including the Brady Act! Just this week, President Clinton proposed further restrictions on the Second Amendment in his State of the Union address. Even though a National Instant Check System has been implemented, the President wants to re-enact a waiting period for gun purchases; And, even though trigger locks are ineffective, and in fact dangerous in that they may hamper use of firearms for personal defense, the President wants to require you to use them. I ask you, if an explicitly recognized constitutional right -- to keep and bear arms -- can be taken away from us, where does it end? Many liberals who are incensed by the slightest hint of an attack on the First Amendment, would do well to remember it will be next in line if the Second Amendment is allowed to fall. Bill Clinton's and Sarah Brady's attack on our right to keep and bear arms must end, and must end now. Now, before it enters a new and far-reaching phase, if the anti-gun lawsuits mounted by trial lawyers encouraged by the tobacco settlement, dangling dreams of billion-dollar windfalls before mayors of cities with financial woes, are allowed to succeed. Another battlefield on which we must fight to protect our most basic rights is on the ever-expanding electronic frontier that will be the new field for competition in the 21st Century. We must stop government bureaucrats and federal law enforcement agencies from requiring that manufacturers of encryption chips, designed to give companies and individuals an ability to protect their data, give the federal government the "keys" to every such encry... |