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.
-Newmarket 73
I was just planing a peaceful retirement and now I have to chose a hill to die on.....
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Bogside's law of perpetual bureaucracy: Don't matter who's in power an established government agency is rarely, if ever, "unestablished".
ReplyDeletePournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy:
Delete"In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely."
Kurt
I'm going to vote so hard next time. My pen will need a blood -groove as my mail-in ballot absorbs a lesson in democracy.
ReplyDeleteUntil then, DMV...stand tall.
They don't have enough people. All the LEOs(state local and Fed) in the US, the entire Department of Defense, and all the civilian Federal employees add up to roughly 6 million people. That is everyone, every age and sex. There are a little over 3 million square miles in the lower 48. So 2 Feds per square mile. New York City is 300 square miles. Could 600 men hold NYC? Nashville is 500 m2. Could 1000 men hold Nashville? Nashville has 1400 sworn LEOs now, with the population relatively peaceful. They don't have enough men.
ReplyDeleteRight. Doesn't matter how many guns an IRS office has, the agents are screwed in a fight, unless, like the Red Army in 1941, they can get several tens of thousands to link arms and shout "Urrruh!" as they charge across a field or down a street at armed, practiced citizens. Melissa in accounting will call in sick.
DeleteBut your assumption requires that a majority - or at least a plurality - of the people will stand against this police state. As long as Dancing with the Stars and Drunk Girl Fails on YouTube continue, the people will not pay any attention to the jack-booted thugs.
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