http://www.examiner.com/article/epa-swat-teams-a-troubling-sign-of-police-state
Essentially an EPA SWAT team raided an Alaska mine to investigate violations of the clean water act. That is bad enough, but more important from my perspective is why does the EPA even have a SWAT team? I have talked about this before but in the last decade and a half more and more federal civilian agencies have been building their own private "armies" of SWAT capable enforcement arms while more local police agencies are arming their officers like soldiers. Is it hyperbole to consider this the beginning of a police state?
Essentially an EPA SWAT team raided an Alaska mine to investigate violations of the clean water act. That is bad enough, but more important from my perspective is why does the EPA even have a SWAT team? I have talked about this before but in the last decade and a half more and more federal civilian agencies have been building their own private "armies" of SWAT capable enforcement arms while more local police agencies are arming their officers like soldiers. Is it hyperbole to consider this the beginning of a police state?