Ask yourself: what do these people do? They don’t have field agents as far as I know, like the FBI. They don’t have foreign intelligence capabilities like the CIA and DIA. They are not in the business of snooping, like the NSA.
What do they do? They are extremely well funded, and of late extremely well armed
Here is one thesis: under Obama at least, their job is the militarization of police departments. Now, this guy had common sense, and understood that protest is a valid political activity, one protected by the Constitution. He resented the anarchists, and having seen these kids first hand myself, I didn’t blame him one bit. I would hit some of these kids upside their ass myself.
But would it not make sense–within the Leftist mindset–to first create a training capability for crowd suppression, a mindset, and then seed key positions with people capable of relaying effectively lies told for the explicit purpose of manipulating the minds and emotions of otherwise honest cops?
You call someone a genuine racist, or child molester, or domestic terrorist, even if it is a lie, it has a strong chance of eliciting a strong response, a response that you can channel down training patterns you have facilitated.
The other interesting thing he said is that they now have a wave weapon that attacks people inner organs, making them so uncomfortable that they have to disperse. This one was mounted on an APC, or what I suppose they now call an MRAP, of the sort that the DHS just bought over a 1,000 of.
Stay awake. Sleep is what the totalitarians want.
Addition: Can you think of a worse potential for abuse than a well-funded bureaucracy with no real mission? The job of the DHS is to counter threats, and the job of bureaucracies is to expand. Logically, then the very existence of the DHS depends on manufacturing threats, if they don’t exist. To do otherwise is to risk becoming smaller, which is unacceptable to all bureaucracies.
We should abolish the DHS. While we’re at it, take the DEA and ATF with them, and most drug seizure laws. We can fight drug, alcohol, tobacco and gun (and explose) related crime through standard law enforcement.
While I’m thinking about it, I wonder if we have tried paying Mexican and other officials on the drug lords payroll more than the drug lords. It’s hard to see how it would cost more than the drug war, and we could even provide and fund volunteer or mercenary troops.