Americas Decline!

My personal thoughts on America’s decline or transformation:

We can discuss September 11, 2001 however looking deeper in it’s ramifications is where the heart of the change takes place. This is about change, power, greed and most of all CONTROL. Keeping people in a constant state of fear makes them withdraw and ask few questions. They naturally turn to the government for information and protection….the very organizations that create false flag operations in the first place.

USA Patriot Act

I think it’s pretty clear that the USA Patriot Act was planed or written well before September 11, 2001. When you consider the inefficiency of the Politicians and the US Government and the time it takes them to make even the smallest decisions proves my point.

The USA Patriot Act was submitted to Congress on September 24, 2001, a mere 13 days after the attack on New Your City. This historical and life alerting piece of legislation was a full 2000 pages long and to think the US Government could write, debate, edit, and obtain bipartisan agreement on the most invasive piece of legislation America has ever seen in only 13 days is proof in itself 9/11 was staged and planned. The US Government couldn’t decide what toilet paper to use in 13 days never mind creating the Patriot Act.

Of all the organizations that were born out of 9/11 there is no other more sinister than the Department of Homeland Security. This group is spearheading the militarization of every police agency and department across the United States arming them with military grade equipment and vehicles just for the asking. How many times have we watched this on the news. A situation occurs and a fully armored assault vehicle rolls up and 8 heavily armed members are deployed in military precision………This team is best known as SWAT.

The public has become very used to seeing them on TV and in their mind these trained units are there to engage the bad guy or terrorist on their behalf. Because the public has gotten used to this they view SWAT teams as their protectors…

What the Department of Homeland Security is quietly doing behind the scenes is building a domestic military or domestic army. Why do I say this? The Constitution of The United States strictly forbids it military to be used against its citizens. The creation of a domestic military is the ideal solution in order to circumvent this law.

These teams of heavily armed police….notice I didn’t use the term SWAT, were deployed within minutes after the bombings in Boston. If you look carefully the insignia worn by these men said POLICE and sprang on the scene in a moments notice. These teams are outfitted with the identical equipment our military furnishes to its solders for waging war. What possible purpose would all this armament and equipment serve within the borders of the United States? The Department of Homeland Security is pre-staging military grade equipment and supplies all across this nation for what purpose?  Is this being done under the guise of terrorism?….BS!

The 2nd Amendment

Another front is the constant attack on the 2nd amendment. I often hear people and politicians say we don’t need assault weapons for hunting and I happen to agree with this. This statement always accompanies discussion surrounding the 2nd amendment however the 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, it says nothing about hunting, and its meaning is very clear. “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state“. This guarantee’s American citizens the ability to defend themselves against a teronist government, something our government greatly fears.

To date, even though our elected politicians have come close to dismantling this important piece of our Constitution, their attacks so far have been fought off vigorously by 2nd amendment supporters, aka American citizens and all attempts so far have died on the vine. Since the US Government can’t seem to kill the 2nd amendment they’ve done the next best thing; bought up all the ammunition. We can buy all the guns we want but if there’s no ammunition what good are they. The US Government is using our taxes to render the majority of American citizens defenseless.

Patriots unite and take back America!!

Police or Nazi SS, YOU decide!

Are America’s local police agencies looking more like Nazi SS or is it me?

A Defense Department program transfers military-grade weapons and vehicles to local law enforcement. It’s the last thing we need and WILL esculate any situation!

This is no joke boys and girls, this is Boston USA! In the photo below the photographer is in the shooters crosshairs!

US Paramilitary police swat
 
America’s streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, donated by the US Defense Department to the county sheriff.

Between the Armored Personnel Carriers locking down main streets in major American cities – mimicking our MRAPs in Afghanistan – or Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) and Special Forces units canvassing our country, if we’re not careful, this militarization of our domestic policing will make-over America, and fast.

Why do we need vehicles like capable of surving a blast such as this roaming the streets of America?

Here’s how it all happened. A little-known Pentagon program has been quietly militarizing American police forces for years. A total of $4.2bn worth of equipment has been distributed by the Defense Department to municipal law enforcement agencies, with a record $546m in 2012 alone.

In the fine print of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1997, the “1033 program” was born. It allows the Defense Department to donate surplus military equipment to local police forces.

Though the program’s existed since the 1990s, it has expanded greatly in recent years, due, in part, to post-9/11 fears and sequestration budget cuts. The expanse, however, seems unnecessary given that the Department of Homeland Security has already handed out $34bn in “terrorism grants” to local polices forces – without oversight mind you – to fund counter-terrorism efforts.

Additional militarization, then, deserves congressional attention as the program is harmful and must be scaled back for a number of reasons.

First, the program is transforming our police into a military. The results of such over-militarized law enforcement are apparent from the dispersion of Occupy protesters in Oakland to the city-wide lockdown in Boston. As retired police chief Norm Stamper stated to the Associated Press: We make a serious mistake, I’m convinced, in equipping domestic law enforcement, particularly in smaller, rural communities, with this much military equipment.

Tanks, grenade launchers, armored vehicles, and assault rifles are just a few of the items that have been transferred from military control to municipal police forces. Law enforcement agencies need only to arrange and pay for shipment in order to receive the items of their choice (pdf). One particularly egregious example is found in South Carolina, where Richland County’s sheriff acquired a tank with 360-degree rotating machine gun turrets. Sardonically, the vehicle has been named “the Peacemaker“.

Swat teams, furthermore, are no longer found only in large, high-crime areas. Instead, even small rural towns now have the equipment to arm their own paramilitary units. Investigative reporter Radley Balko estimates that around 150 Swat raids are performed every day in the United States.

Second, the program encourages waste. Never mind, for a moment, that neither the Defense Department nor the Homeland Security Department has been audited – the only two unaudited government departments incidentally. Any waste from the 1033 program, then, has gone unnoticed thus far.

Municipalities’ stockpiles have grown exponentially with billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry and equipment they simply do not need. This giveaway has created a shopping frenzy among law enforcement officials keen to scoop up equipment before someone else does.

Take a look at these examples. A small town in Georgia without a body of water acquired boats and scuba gear. The same town ordered a shipment of bayonets, which is now collecting dust. In Texas, a town of only 835 residents received more than $3m worth of equipment, including deep-fat fryers, televisions, and playground equipment. The stories abound.

Authorities often claim that the program assists local law enforcement without incurring costs for taxpayers. Yet the program requires that localities accept equipment “as is”, meaning that taxpayers foot the bill (pdf) for all repairs, storage, or maintenance of the growing stockpile. Thus, the arms race ignited by these policies is as wasteful and costly as it is dangerous.

Lastly, the program’s lack of oversight is irresponsible. Indeed, the amount of unaccounted for weapons, fraud, and abuse is alarming. Officially, state coordinators are required to ensure that local law enforcement agencies keep full inventories (pdf) of the equipment they receive, and the localities must report any missing equipment and return any that is unused. But in practice, federal and state authorities infrequently check – if ever – to ensure that inventories are up to date. Effectively, then, it is the recipients of weapons who are left to regulate themselves. The results have been disastrous.

For example, a sheriff in Illinois was accused of lending the assault rifles, which he got through the 1033 program, to his friends. Meanwhile, a firearms manager in North Carolina pled guilty to selling his on eBay. Worse, 11 districts in Indiana were completely suspended from the program because of the high volume of weapons they lost. And a county in Arizona acquired $7m worth of weapons and Humvees before giving them to unauthorized persons and attempting to sell them to boost their budget.

The lack of oversight is appalling. State coordinators admit that they conduct very few in-person inspections. In New York, the state is apparently outsourcing the majority of their inventory work to a part-time, unpaid intern. And in Mississippi, it took six years before federal authorities discovered that a state office, which was ineligible for the program, had received $8m worth of equipment, despite the fact that the Defense Department is supposed to review the program every two years.
 

The Pentagon program cannot continue in this manner. Congress should acknowledge the failure of this program and permanently ban military-grade weaponry, armored vehicles and aircraft from transfer to municipal police forces. If the Defense Department is to continue to lend surplus equipment to localities, it must vastly tighten oversight and ensure that no item go unaccounted for. On-site inspections must be frequent and consequences for noncompliance should be severe.

If America is concerned about helping its police forces prevent violence, there are more cost effective ways of doing that. Since we know that cities and states with lower levels of violence have higher levels of education, healthcare coverage and economic opportunity, and lower levels of poverty and income inequality, that is where we should be investing taxpayer dollars.

But when local police forces carry assault weapons and patrol America’s main streets with tanks and drones, the lines blur between the military and law enforcement. The growing militarization of the United States appears to be occurring at home as well as abroad, a phenomenon which is troublesome and sure to continue without decisive action. Scaling back the 1033 program is a much-needed start and would cast some light on the blurring line between military forces and the local police who are meant to protect and serve.