“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
“Here [in New Mexico], we are moving more toward a national police force. Homeland Security is involved with a lot of little things around town. Somebody in Washington needs to call a timeout.”—Dan Klein, retired Albuquerque Police Department sergeant
Has the Dept. of Homeland Security Become America’s Standing Army?
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.
Check Out this detailed article By John W. Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute which includes info on:
- Militarizing police and SWAT team
- Spying on activists, dissidents and veterans
- Stockpiling ammunitionDistributing license plate readers
- Contracting to build detention camps
- Tracking cell-phones with Stingray devices
- Carrying out military drills and lockdowns in American cities
- Using the TSA as an advance guard
- Conducting virtual strip searches with full-body scanners
- Carrying out soft target checkpoints
- Directing government workers to spy on Americans
- Conducting widespread spying networks using fusion centers
- Carrying out Constitution-free border control searches
- Funding city-wide surveillance camerasUtilizing drones and other spybots
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