czarowniczy says:

September 16, 2013 at 9:54 am (Edit)

I’d posted this early on in my visits and, as much as I’d love to blame Obama it ain’t his fault. The Fed agencies build their power through increasing their staffs’ numbers and reach – the latter includes stealing ‘bricks’ from other agencies.
One USDA agency I worked with grew fat by stealing the administrative functions away from many other Fed agencies. It became the largest USDA facility outside of DC yet had zero to do with agriculture. Imagine my surprise one day when reading the Department’s bulletin when I discovered the USDA was standing up a SWAT team! Think of the various departments under the USDA like Forest Service, who have separate police units – now a SWAT. I guess Michelle could deploy them under her nutrition dictates – “HEY! Crazy-assed fat cracker! Back away from the Big Mac or we shoot!”

It was 911 that gave the agencies the idea and abilities to increase their powers and their managers’ payrolls by adding police units for protection. Money was flowing, paranoia was rampant, the government was militarizing – who’d refuse a small truckload of cash to allow the cabinet-level agencies to save themselves from the advancing hordes of evildoers?

I remember the NASA agency, shortly after 911, who shared our building bulking up its police, buying them all new black jumpsuits, getting them M-16s (NOT AR-15s). They had real-cop trainers come in who, after all the years NASA had been there, to work like real cops. All this money knowing they were going to be closed down and transferred within a short time.

This militarization is the agencies’ doing and not any Administration’s directly. The Feds already have the Federal Protective Service which rightfully should have been expanded to do this job as that is their job, but the agencies each wanted their own personal Sicherheitspolize and they got ‘em.
Next time you’re on Federal property and drop a gum wrapper, when you see the black helicopter flying in your direction just freeze and slowly interlace your fingers behind your neck.