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“FEAR” Note From a Cop / Scott Wagner is a Police Academy Commander
Posted by sakerfa on July 4, 2009
The fear on the street is palpable. Ever since the election of Barack Obama as President of these United States in November 2008, coupled with the election of a democrat party majority in both the U.S. House and Senate, concern for the United States and personal safety has ignited like a fire in dry grass.
Sales of guns – black guns, rifles, shotguns and handguns (particularly 9mm) everywhere, have gone through the roof. AR15s have literally flown off of dealer shelves, and only now in the spring of 2009, have I seen the display samples of ARs begin to reappear on the wall of my favorite shooting emporium after the initial post election rush.What is odd about this new fear is that it is not coming from the average citizen gun owner out there, but it is coming from what to me is an almost shocking source: street cops.
Street cops and SWAT cops that I know from various agencies – rural, suburban and metro – in my area are scared. Cops that before November 2008 never gave much thought (that I knew of anyway) to politics or more importantly to gun rights. For the most part, these are the guys that didn’t generally have any interest in shooting or gun ownership beyond keeping track of where their duty gun is, and a few of them didn’t even do that so well.What are we suddenly so afraid of? Well in our discussions it seems to boil down to four areas.
First, fear of federal government intrusion into our lives. Every time I look at or listen to the news, there is something new and intrusive coming out of the Obama administration and this Congress. New tax schemes, government-run Canadian-style healthcare, a volunteer citizen defense force (whatever that is, what happened to the National Guard?) equipped with funding similar to our military, forced voluntary “service” after retirement, a lack of a southern border with hordes of illegal and criminal aliens pouring over our border, the swine flu scare as well as government forced closing of thousands of privately held Chrysler and GM dealerships, which will be the final nail in the coffin for these companies and the list goes on and on.
But these items in the news are just the tip of the iceberg. We can’t see the full impact of these actions yet, but we don’t know what was added into the thousand of pages of stimulus package bills in the dead of night yet. I predict however that when the plans contained in the stimulus packages go into effect, a lot of us are going to be surprised if not shocked by what has suddenly and sweepingly changed.
What also scares us is the second, well-founded fear that there is an assault weapons ban looming, one that would make the Clinton Ban appear like a look of disdain in comparison. I remember well the 1990s and the Clinton years: the rise of militia groups, the “black helicopter” rumors and paranoia, all of which was motivated by the Brady Law and the Assault Weapon’s ban. What if a new ban comes requiring registration or confiscation and turn-in of banned weapons as what happened in Australia?
…I foresee much civil disobedience coming down the road. Americans are citizens, and not subjects like the British, Canadians or Australians. They just don’t always obey the law blindly and not one officer or citizen that I spoke to said anything like “I hope I get to keep this gun for awhile before they are banned; They are fun to shoot, so I would hate to give it up.” It isn’t going to happen, so the cop on the street and the soldier on the base needs to think now what he will do if the orders come down. I think you all get what I am saying here.
Which leads me to the third fear, that there is a revolution coming, yes, a revolution on the scale of the original American Revolution. You can hear this topic discussed on many of the talk radio shows by even the big name hosts. The possibility of an armed revolution against the U.S. government being discussed, albeit very gingerly and fleetingly and as something to be avoided, which it is.
Source: Current
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Where's the fourth reason? said
The article cites a police commander in the begining but the text becomes a laundry list facts that extend well beyond police officers. Police Commander types are usually graduates from the FBI academy have carry dual loyalties to their department and the Bureau. As such, Police Commander types are not known for expressing personally held “controversial and out of the mainstream of thought,” held ideas.
I think this article is bogus, at best.
In 1972, early on, in my 23 year career at LAPD; I attended a training session held by Public Disorder Intelligence Division (PDID) Detectives who informed myself and all other officers present; that the 60’s radical groups would be going underground, in a sense and become federally funnded community action groups and networks and receive private foundation grants from the Carnegie Trust, etc.; but that around the turn of the century and beyond, those radicals and their new followers would become part of a very virulent physical no holds barred assault and revolution against the government, the country and the American pulic!
The post Rodney King crop of street cops are the new breed of order takers and lacking in self discipline, self determination and comittment to their oath of office to protect the public from only the criminal element. This new breed of street cop is not nearly as proficient with their tactical skills as those whom they succeeded. In a sense, they are “clueless” and seriously lacking skills that allow them to properly perceive and assess danger signals while on patrol.
The assertion that these type of street cops are the one’s who are buying the bulk of the described weapons and ordnance, given the fact that the entire national police department personnel roster tops out at less than 500 thousand officers; does not support the contention that the bulk of these weapons being sold are mainly falling into the hands of rank and file police officers. The sales figures would more likely support that law abiding citizens in the main are those to whom these weapons are being sold.
One last point. The national law enforcement agencies; i.e., the police and sheriff departments; are not scheduled to have their weapons confiscated until after the FEMA government transitions into relinquishing control of the emergency goverment that replaces this current (albeit dead) constitutional government; and hands it over to the foreign occupying military forces representing United Nations control of this country. That is at best, still several years away.
I also noticed on this website under the heading of “TOP Patriots” that someone has decided that Noam Chomsky qualifies to be called an American Patriot! Obama and Chomsky both espouse the same Marxist Socialist ideals!
Time for a “bail out” on the brain trust at this website me thinks!
Mike Fanning, LAPD Sergeant, Retired
Sam Clauder said
Terrorist threats in the form of fascist, racist, neocon drool!
Where was all the concern for our Constituion when Bush and Cheney were shredding it?
Now they’re worried about Obama? Yeah, right! Because he’s black, and because he promotes universal health care.
They all get free guns and ammo as it is, and are encouraged to carry weapons all the time. These guys are just buying up all the guns they can find to keep them out of the hands of the public.
I am immediately going to report this person, and this website, to the Secret Service, the FBI, and Homeland Security as a terrorist threat!
We should fill Guantanamo with these domestic terrorists!!!