Pardon My Paranoia
By Alan
Caruba
An organization,
Patriots for America, is calling for millions of Americans to descend on
Washington, D.C on May 16 for Operation American Spring whose purpose is to
demand that President Obama and others in his administration be removed from
office.
Among the
rules of engagement set forth on their Internet site include (1) no weapons. No
ammunition. “The Communist forces that control Washington, D.C. do not
recognize the 2nd Amendment and have banned all weapons and
ammunition from the district. Do not give them the opportunity to arrest you
and prosecute you.” (2) Follow all rules of the road. (3) Comply with all constitutional
requests of local authorities. And (4) travel in groups of four or greater.
Geoff Ross
is identified as the senior chief of the organization that wants participants
to be prepared to stay as long as it takes for Congress to take action. The event
suggests that he and many supportive groups think the U.S. is at risk of losing
its constitutional government so long as Barack Obama is President.
The worst
possible scenario to the event would be if some element of the law enforcement
authority is ordered to fire on the gathering, but I recall that in July 2008
presidential candidate Obama said that Americans could no longer “…continue to
rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve
set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful,
just as strong, just as well-funded.”
America does
not need a civilian national security force.
We have the military whose job is
to protect us against foreign invasion and we have state and local police
authorities in our towns and cities to address riots and large protests. The
force the President wants would exist solely to intimidate and control
Americans who he deems his enemies.
What we do
have in the wake of 9/11 is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and it is
not intended to be a military force although it does include the Coast Guard.
On March 23, 2013, Capt. Terry M. Hestilow, U.S. Army retired, wrote to Sen.
John Cornyn (R-TX) warning that DHS is preparing to go to war with the citizens
of the United States.
“It
is with gravest concern that I write to you today concerning the recent
appropriation of weapons by the DHS that can only be understood as a bold
threat of war by that agency, and the Obama administration, against the
citizens of the United States of America.” He expressed his concerns over
“recent purchases of almost 3,000 mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP)
armored personnel carriers, 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition (with associated
weapons), and other weapons systems.”
“One
needs only look to the rise of Adolf Hitler,” wrote Capt. Hestilow, “and his
associated DHS organizations, the SA and the SS, of 1932-1934, to see the
outcome of allowing an agency of government this kind of control over the free
citizens of a nation.”
In
a February 5, 2014 article on Infowars.com, Kit Daniels reported that “The U.S.
Postal Service is currently seeking companies that can provide “assorted small
arms ammunition in the new future. The U.S. Postal Service joins the long list
of non-military federal agencies purchasing large amounts of ammunition.”
What
has a growing number of Americans concerned is this arming of government
agencies we do not associate with the need to be heavily armed. “Since 2001,
the U.S. Department of Education has been building a massive arsenal through
purchases orchestrated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms” reported
Daniels. “Back in July, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
also purchased 72,000 rounds of 40 Smith and Wesson, following a 2012 purchase
for 46,000 rounds of .40 S&W jacketed hollow point by the National Weather
Service.”
One
might assume that the DHS needs to be armed to some degree, but there is no
logical reason for the Post Office, the Department of Education, and NOAA to be
heavily armed. Reportedly DHS spent over $58 million to hire security details
for just two Social Security offices in Maryland and $80 million for armed
guards to protect government buildings in New York and more guards for federal
facilities in Wisconsin and Minnesota. “Even the Environmental Protection
Agency has its own SWAT teams conducting raids on peaceful Americans,” wrote
Daniels.
DHS
has been engaged in a program to provide military-style weapons and vehicles to
local police forces around the nations.
My
most profound fear, my paranoia, concerning the May 16 protest, despite its
instructions to participants not be armed, is that some incident would escalate
to a point where shots were exchanged. One can conceive of that serving as the
reason to initiate an “emergency” proclamation and/or to declare martial law.
One
gets the feeling that this government, under the direction of President Obama,
is preparing for a national insurrection against his often lawless
administration. The May 16 event would provide an excuse to initiate actions
that would put us all under the gun.
I
no longer believe “it can’t happen here.” We have a President who sees no
reason to work with Congress and who recently “joked” that he can do whatever
he wants.
I
worry that members of our military and others would obey orders to impose
governmental control to the extent that we might see widespread resistance by
millions of armed Americans. I regard the surge in the purchase of
weapons by private citizens during Obama’s terms in office as a reflection of the
paranoia that I am feeling these days.
But
is it paranoia? Or is it a reasonable assumption that a President who feels
free to ignore the Constitution might have plans that do not include peaceful
elections or his departure from the office?
©
Alan Caruba, 2014
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