John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© August 19, 2022
Here are a couple of interesting posts I became aware of due to email subscriptions:
- Weaponizing the Bureaucracy: Who Will Protect Us from the Government’s Standing Army? (Activist Post)
The first title is by John & Nisha Whitehead and is a pick up from The Rutherford Institute. The article exposes Federal Agencies who ARE NOT law enforcement yet are being weaponized. It doesn’t take a brainiac to figure out such weaponization points to future POLICE STATE tyranny against American citizens.
The second title is by Rudy Giuliani – also a notable recipient of Dem-Marxist political persecution – discusses America transforming into a One-Party State. I will included Rumble video embeds not a part of the Giuliani email I received in my inbox.
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Weaponizing the Bureaucracy: Who Will Protect Us from the Government’s Standing Army?
Warning Sign: Death & Taxes Ahead
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead
AUGUST 17, 2022
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
The IRS has stockpiled 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition in recent years, including 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles and 15 submachine guns.
The Veterans Administration (VA) purchased 11 million rounds of ammunition (equivalent to 2,800 rounds for each of their officers), along with camouflage uniforms, riot helmets and shields, specialized image enhancement devices and tactical lighting.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) acquired 4 million rounds of ammunition, in addition to 1,300 guns, including five submachine guns and 189 automatic firearms for its Office of Inspector General.
According to an in-depth report on “The Militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies,” the Social Security Administration secured 800,000 rounds of ammunition for their special agents, as well as armor and guns.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) owns 600 guns. And the Smithsonian now employs 620-armed “special agents.”
This is how it begins.
We have what the founders feared most: a “standing” or permanent army on American soil.
This de facto standing army is made up of weaponized, militarized, civilian forces which look like, dress like, and act like the military; are armed with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment; are authorized to make arrests; and are trained in military tactics.
Mind you, this de facto standing army of bureaucratic, administrative, non-military, paper-pushing, non-traditional law enforcement agencies may look and act like the military, but they are not the military.
Rather, they are foot soldiers of the police state’s standing army, and they are growing in number at an alarming rate.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of federal agents armed with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment, authorized to make arrests, and trained in military tactics has nearly tripled over the past several decades.
There are now more bureaucratic (non-military) government agents armed with weapons than U.S. Marines. As Adam Andrzejewski writes for Forbes, “the federal government has become one never-ending gun show.”
While Americans have to jump through an increasing number of hoops in order to own a gun, federal agencies have been placing orders for hundreds of millions of rounds of hollow point bullets and military gear. Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment, body armor, hollow-point bullets, shotguns, drones, assault rifles and LP gas cannons are the Smithsonian, U.S. Mint, Health and Human Services, IRS, FDA, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Education Department, Energy Department, Bureau of Engraving and Printing and an assortment of public universities.
Add in the Biden Administration’s plans to grow the nation’s police forces by 100,000 more cops and swell the ranks of the IRS by 87,000 new employees (some of whom will have arrest-and-firearm authority) and you’ve got a nation in the throes of martial law.
The militarization of America’s police forces in recent decades has merely sped up the timeline by which the nation is transformed into an authoritarian regime.
What began with the militarization of the police in the 1980s during the government’s war on drugs has snowballed into a full-fledged integration of military weaponry, technology and tactics into police protocol. To our detriment, local police—clad in jackboots, helmets and shields and wielding batons, pepper-spray, stun guns, and assault rifles—have increasingly come to resemble occupying forces in our communities.
As Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz report, more than $34 billion in federal government grants made available to local police agencies in the wake of 9/11 “ha[ve] fueled a rapid, broad transformation of police operations… across the country. More than ever before, police rely on quasi-military tactics and equipment… [P]olice departments around the U.S. have transformed into small army-like forces.”
This standing army has been imposed on the American people in clear violation of the spirit—if not the letter of the law—of the Posse Comitatus Act, which restricts the government’s ability to use the U.S. military as a police force.
A standing army—something that propelled the early colonists into revolution—strips the American people of any vestige of freedom.
It was for this reason that those who established America vested control of the military in a civilian government, with a civilian commander-in-chief. They did not want a military government, ruled by force.
Rather, they opted for a republic bound by the rule of law: the U.S. Constitution.
Unfortunately, with the Constitution under constant attack, the military’s power, influence and authority have grown dramatically. Even the Posse Comitatus Act, which makes it a crime for the government to use the military to carry out arrests, searches, seizure of evidence and other activities normally handled by a civilian police force, has been greatly weakened by exemptions allowing troops to deploy domestically and arrest civilians in the wake of alleged terrorist acts.
The increasing militarization of the police, the use of sophisticated weaponry against Americans and the government’s increasing tendency to employ military personnel domestically have all but eviscerated historic prohibitions such as the Posse Comitatus Act.
Indeed, there are a growing number of exceptions to which Posse Comitatus does not apply. These exceptions serve to further acclimate the nation to the sight and sounds of military personnel on American soil and the imposition of martial law.
Now we find ourselves struggling to retain some semblance of freedom in the face of administrative, police and law enforcement agencies that look and act like the military with little to no regard for the Fourth Amendment, laws such as the NDAA that allow the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens, and military drills that acclimate the American people to the sight of armored tanks in the streets, military encampments in cities, and combat aircraft patrolling overhead.
The menace of a national police force—a.k.a. a standing army—vested with the power to completely disregard the Constitution, cannot be overstated, nor can its danger be ignored.
Historically, the establishment of a national police force accelerates a nation’s transformation into a police state, serving as the fundamental and final building block for every totalitarian regime that has ever wreaked havoc on humanity.
Then again, for all intents and perhaps, the American police state is already governed by martial law: Battlefield tactics. Militarized police. Riot and camouflage gear. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Drones. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Concussion grenades. Intimidation tactics. Brute force. Laws conveniently discarded when it suits the government’s purpose.
This is what martial law looks like, when a government disregards constitutional freedoms and imposes its will through military force, only this is martial law without any government body having to declare it.
The ease with which Americans are prepared to welcome boots on the ground, regional lockdowns, routine invasions of their privacy, and the dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a bulwark against government abuses is beyond unnerving.
We are sliding fast down a slippery slope to a Constitution-free America.
This quasi-state of martial law has been helped along by government policies and court rulings that have made it easier for the police to shoot unarmed citizens, for law enforcement agencies to seize cash and other valuable private property under the guise of asset forfeiture, for military weapons and tactics to be deployed on American soil, for government agencies to carry out round-the-clock surveillance, for legislatures to render otherwise lawful activities as extremist if they appear to be anti-government, for profit-driven private prisons to lock up greater numbers of Americans, for homes to be raided and searched under the pretext of national security, for American citizens to be labeled terrorists and stripped of their rights merely on the say-so of a government bureaucrat, and for pre-crime tactics to be adopted nationwide that strip Americans of the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty and creates a suspect society in which we are all guilty until proven otherwise.
All of these assaults on the constitutional framework of the nation have been sold to the public as necessary for national security.
Time and again, the public has fallen for the ploy hook, line and sinker.
We’re being reeled in, folks, and you know what happens when we get to the end of that line?
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, we’ll be cleaned, gutted and strung up.
ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
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A Banana Republic? Yes, I think so.
Email by Rudy Giuliani
Sent 8/18/22
Via Rudy Giuliani’s Common Sense
Dear Patriots and Friends:
On Monday I issued an alert in my newsletter about the violations and circumstances surrounding the August 8th raid at Mar a Lago. Christina Bobb, one of President Trump’s attorneys gave an outstanding interview here on my “Common Sense” podcast describing in detail her experience that day. My latest episode of “Common Sense” is a follow-up on that last newsletter which can be found here.
[Rumble VIDEO: The Radical Left within the Justice Department are out to Destroy America |August 17th 2022 | Ep 263
Posted by Rudy Giuliani’s Common Sense
Published August 17, 2022
My latest podcast is about the radical left and their “banana republic” tactics which are an obscene outrage to all freedom loving Americans. They go after parents who want to protect their children from indoctrination of Critical Race Theory, age inappropriate sex education, and most importantly the Attorney General Merrick Garland claiming that the biggest crime problem and threat we face as a nation is domestic terrorism in the form of white supremacy. He of course says nothing whatsoever about the record high crime rates, mostly in Democratic run cities, which are terrorizing our citizenry.
Does the FBI have any time to pursue real violent crime or are they now acting as solely the political enforcement arm of the radical left and the Biden Administration? When I was a member of the Department of Justice (DOJ) I used the FBI in many criminal investigations to pursue and solve many violent crimes which, as the US Attorney in the Southern District of New York, I convicted some of the worst of the worst criminals and white collar offenders. I didn’t pick and choose who to prosecute based on political affiliation. If someone broke the law in my jurisdiction I used my unbiased judgement when deciding whether or not to prosecute based upon the evidence law enforcement collected.
I use the term “banana republic” often now and not just literally but also figuratively. In fascist, Nazi, communist, third world, and other one party governments the ruling class “disappears” their opposition whether it’s the prior leadership or a threat to the current leadership. Thankfully in America we don’t do that – but we have now adopted those tactics to “disappear” the political opposition by silencing them, having a complicit corrupt media malign and disparage the political opposition as they’ve done to President Trump and many who are associated them, and social media sites have cancelled conservative accounts such as they did to President Trump. Figuratively we are a “banana republic” now with the constriction of speech and censorship. We see the radical left “disappear” many on the right and even independent voters solely because of their support for President Trump and his policies.
The radical left has damaged President Trump’s character as well as my own and many other individuals associated with him. Look no further than the lie of Russian Collusion which President Trump was vindicated of and FBI was found complicit in fabricating evidence in the Steele Dossier. There were no Intelligence Community derived documents that linked President Trump to Russia. However, on the first day Trump took office democrats announced they were seeking his impeachment despite the fact that he had not yet had the opportunity to govern the United States.
Please listen to my latest podcast as I delineate and describe not only the raid at President Trump’s home but also how the radical left has an agenda they are utilizing to modify and change America’s domestic way of life. They are attempting – and may succeed if we don’t stop them – in creating a one party political system. It’s time for ALL Americans to resist these demonic and evil radical left tactics and come together as one nation which can disagree in a civil manner as we did in the past.
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