Weaponizing the Bureaucracy: Who Will Protect Us from the Government’s Standing Army?

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison

The IRS has stockpiled 4,500 guns and five million rounds of ammunition in recent years, including 621 shotguns, 539 long-barrel rifles and 15 submachine guns.

The Veterans Administration (VA) purchased 11 million rounds of ammunition (equivalent to 2,800 rounds for each of their officers), along with camouflage uniforms, riot helmets and shields, specialized image enhancement devices and tactical lighting.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) acquired 4 million rounds of ammunition, in addition to 1,300 guns, including five submachine guns and 189 automatic firearms for its Office of Inspector General.

According to an in-depth report on “The Militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies,” the Social Security Administration secured 800,000 rounds of ammunition for their special agents, as well as armor and guns.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) owns 600 guns. And the Smithsonian now employs 620-armed “special agents.”

This is how it begins.

We have what the founders feared most: a “standing” or permanent army on American soil.

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.

Rather, they are foot soldiers of the police state’s standing army, and they are growing in number at an alarming rate.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the number of federal agents armed with guns, ammunition and military-style equipment, authorized to make arrests, and trained in military tactics has nearly tripled over the past several decades.

There are now more bureaucratic (non-military) government agents armed with weapons than U.S. Marines. As Adam Andrzejewski writes for Forbes, “the federal government has become one never-ending gun show.”

While Americans have to jump through an increasing number of hoops in order to own a gun, federal agencies have been placing orders for hundreds of millions of rounds of hollow point bullets and military gear. Among the agencies being supplied with night-vision equipment, body armor, hollow-point bullets, shotguns, drones, assault rifles and LP gas cannons are the Smithsonian, U.S. Mint, Health and Human Services, IRS, FDA, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Education Department, Energy Department, Bureau of Engraving and Printing and an assortment of public universities.

Add in the Biden Administration’s plans to grow the nation’s police forces by 100,000 more cops and swell the ranks of the IRS by 87,000 new employees (some of whom will have arrest-and-firearm authority) and you’ve got a nation in the throes of martial law.

The militarization of America’s police forces in recent decades has merely sped up the timeline by which the nation is transformed into an authoritarian regime.

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9 Comments

  1. mike August 18, 2022 at 10:16

    The more you expand any force, the less special it becomes. 87,000 is a lot of slots to fill given the competition with other militarized agencies for recruits. Even if they can fill these ranks, the quality may not even reach the Uvalde swat level of competence.

    https://nitter.hu/maphumanintent/status/1560251024807542785#m

    • no August 18, 2022 at 18:13

      I’m thinking about applying.

      It’s time to stop talking about amending or dismantling these bureaucracies (defensive) and time to start talking about infiltrating (offensive) them.

      • NC Scout August 18, 2022 at 19:25

        That’s predicated upon getting hired.

  2. WilliamtheResolute August 18, 2022 at 10:53

    I saw a photo of the new crop of FBI agents taking firearms training…they weren’t physically fit, had obviously never handled a weapon in their life and looked in general like Libtard double point IQ housewives and basement dwellers…I don’t know if I should even worry.

    • John Galt August 18, 2022 at 13:03

      Exactly the type of jelous sub beta order takers to turn loose on productive American citizens.

      Gun companies need to pick a side…..stop selling to deep state totalitarian and restrictive state agencies and personnel.

      They are either arming the totalitarians or protecting freedom – it can’t be both.

  3. KBYN August 18, 2022 at 11:01

    Seems a bit like preparations to form the newest iteration of the Einsatzgruppen, which were staffed largely by LEOs.

  4. Just Me August 18, 2022 at 13:19

    Unfortunately we are on our own, you/me/we are responsible for ourselves and our family.
    Nobody is coming to save you

  5. GK August 18, 2022 at 13:51

    KBYN is close…This is exactly what the NAZIs did except they used the Gestapo.

    What the NAZIs did was create all these agencies that in turn created 1930’s version of databases (who’s big on those now?). Then the NAZIs would create and alter laws to find people felonious, then giving the impetus for the Gestapo to arrest/destroy their property. Ultimately, this lead to “Krystallnaught,” where the people from said agencies and other venues raided the Jews outright while the Gestapo stood by and watched…It’s happening again, and it’s why we should fight like hell to never let any law be put on the books that can redefine who is illegal. Especially when it’s against our Constitution in the name of our Safety. Also, while I’m shooting my keyboard off, if they use the term public private partnership, be afraid. Be very f’ing afraid!

  6. Scott August 18, 2022 at 13:58

    The VA wouldn’t need an armed police force if they would just take better care of our veterans. Their administration spends more time and resources trying to get out of caring for us in OK then it would cost to fulfill their obligations from our enlistment contract. DOE does actually need weapons and ammo as they’re responsible for the security of a lot of nuclear convoys across the country.

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