Has the Dept. of Homeland Security become America’s standing army?

Teo will love this article....

http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/friendswood/opinion/whitehead-has-the-dept-of-homeland-security-become-america-s/article_81acf508-4660-5e0a-87fc-fee9c447f61f.html

If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies. In fact, although the DHS’ governmental bureaucracy may at times appear to be inept and bungling, it is ruthlessly efficient when it comes to building what the Founders feared most—a standing army on American soil.

The third largest federal agency behind the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense, the DHS—with its 240,000 full-time workers, $61 billion budget and sub-agencies that include the Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection, Secret Service, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)—has been aptly dubbed a “runaway train.”

.....Militarizing police and SWAT teams. The DHS routinely hands out six-figure grants to enable local municipalities to purchase military-style vehicles, as well as a veritable war chest of weaponry, ranging from tactical vests, bomb-disarming robots, assault weapons and combat uniforms. This rise in military equipment purchases funded by the DHS has, according to analysts Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz, “paralleled an apparent increase in local SWAT teams.” The end result? An explosive growth in the use of SWAT teams for otherwise routine police matters, an increased tendency on the part of police to shoot first and ask questions later, and an overall mindset within police forces that they are at war—and the citizenry are the enemy combatants....

I wouldn't be surprised.

DHS is involved in every aspect of our lives. All of them.

President Barack Hussein Obama has stated that he want's a citizens armed force as large and well equipped as is our military.

Why would he think we needed such an army?

Markle wrote:President Barack Hussein Obama has stated that he want's a citizens armed force as large and well equipped as is our military.

Why would he think we needed such an army?

Are you serious? With radical T-partiers, evangelistic Christian's foaming at the mouth while insisting that creationism be taught as real science, that the earth is 6,000 years old, all abortionists need to be exterminated, and Christian prayer must be mandatory at all schools, with the NRA pushing to make it law that everyone must carry a fully loaded assault rifle, everywhere, with all the Cliven Bundys and their associated "militias," with active terrorists like the right wing crazies who gunned down cops in Washington State, etc. and you actually wonder why Obama wants a big civilian army?

As our resident Nazi militarist, you seem to have no problems with the building of "patriotic" armed right wing militias, but only with the federal government's attempts to strengthen national security. Reality!

Wordslinger wrote:

Markle wrote:President Barack Hussein Obama has stated that he want's a citizens armed force as large and well equipped as is our military.

Why would he think we needed such an army?

Are you serious?  With radical T-partiers, evangelistic Christian's foaming at the mouth while insisting that creationism be taught as real science, that the earth is 6,000 years old, all abortionists need to be exterminated, and Christian prayer must be mandatory at all schools, with the NRA pushing to make it law that everyone must carry a fully loaded assault rifle, everywhere, with all the Cliven Bundys and their associated "militias," with active terrorists like the right wing crazies who gunned down cops in Washington State, etc. and you actually wonder why Obama wants a big civilian army?

As our resident Nazi militarist, you seem to have no problems with the building of "patriotic" armed right wing militias, but only with the federal government's attempts to strengthen national security.  Reality!

If we didn't have a totalitarian dictator breaking every law in the country maybe people around the nation wouldn't be as upset as they are.

But I can see you've been brain washed to see anyone other than liberals as terrorist. kudos to your handlers.

The dhs is unconstitutional... the practices it deploys are unconstitutional... our compliance is domestication.

“Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.” Thoreau

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.” Webster