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Friday, April 18, 2014

The United States of SWAT? How Government Agencies are Wreaking Havoc on Non-Violent Citizens. | The Federalist Papers

The United States of SWAT? How Government Agencies are Wreaking Havoc on Non-Violent Citizens. | The Federalist Papers

The increasing militarization of local police departments and government agencies is fast becoming a big problem in America!



Via John Fund at the National Review Online:

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.

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