American Free Press – by Victor Thorne
When one looks beyond the senseless looting, rioting and destruction that followed the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, could an even more ominous plot be at hand? Are power-obsessed authorities, spearheaded by outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, setting the stage to further federalize local police forces?
To get more information on this, on December 11 this reporter interviewed Cheryl Chumley, author of the book POLICE STATE USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming our Reality.
In terms of the Obama administration’s hidden motives, Ms. Chumley said: “The federal government wants to take over police departments,which up until now have remained locally controlled. That should be a red flag to every American.”
Adding specifics, Ms. Chumley explained: “Barack Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel once said, ‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’ Well, the Obama White House is using the chaos from New York City and Ferguson as ways of shifting their agenda to an increased use of the Pentagon’s 1033 program.”
This newspaper was one of the first publications to report on the Pentagon’s 1033 program and its transfer of military equipment from warzones in Afghanistan and Iraq to city police departments. The hardware includes high-powered sniper rifles, tanks, helicopters, night vision wear and vehicles capable of withstanding explosive devices.
Ms. Chumley warned of this trend: “By and large, Americans don’t like these militarized activities in their own neighborhoods, as well they shouldn’t. In May, an Atlanta toddler was mistakenly blown up with flash-bang grenades when officers issued a no-knock warrant. In 2011, a former Arizona Marine was killed after authorities entered the wrong residence. Every police department should be alarmed by the Obama administration’s carrot-and-stick approach to law enforcement.”
When asked for more details, Ms. Chumley replied: “Obama is telling local police departments that in order to receive this equipment, they’re mandated to issue reports to the feds. This means officers would be more accountable to the federal government’s wide-sweeping orders and dictates than to local or state legislators. Once you take community oversight out of the picture—which is more streamlined and transparent—police officers would become tools of the federal government, not servants of local citizens.”
Obama has introduced another element to the equation: upping the Big Brother surveillance state. Ms. Chumley revealed the implications: “Obama has demanded that $263 million be used to purchase 50,000 body cameras for the nation’s police. The information obtained from these cameras would then be fed into a federal database. But do we want an onerous government further peering into our backyards? Plus, who’ll collect this data, store it and have access to it? More than likely these live-feed cameras would become part ofHomeland Security and the Department of Justice. Can you imagine the nightmare we’d face trying to process FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] requests?”
Even the way Obama is implementing this power grab remains questionable, as Ms. Chumley noted: “Obama didn’t actually sign an executive order, but instead issued an executive action, telling Eric Holder to move forward with his plans. By using this strategic backdoor political move, Obama is being even more secretive.”
Considering how certain elements within this administration used the Internal Revenue Service to target political foes, it’s imperative that no further powers be granted them.
Victor Thorn is a hard-hitting researcher, journalist and author of over 50 books.
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When America has become a land were the police are allowed to do drive up shootings and murders at will. Not because you even broke a law. Just a I don’t like. In a stop you never know what mood or what word you may say that will set one off mental, When they are allowed to come back as a whole police force just because you try to file a complaint against one and murder you for it. Use death threats. And any thing else they personally feel like doing. Are that far above the law. Something has to be done about what America has as police. They showed us how high they think of themselfs by turning there backs on the Mayor and telling him what and were he could go. And did not even think the Mayor is over the police cheif. That is power. That is a outside of the law group. That is totally self centered and does any thing it likes to do. In no way can they claim today they represent the Tax paying citizens of America. So something must be done. If they like it or not. Then they have the nerve to boste and brag that it is now war between them and the citizen because 2 got shot by a mad man. They have declared war on the citizen. Even Hittler had control of the police in Germany. Americans are today under a force of police who have by public action and there own words declaired war on the citizen under no control. Very bad situation there.
The only difference between Barny Fife and the current law enforcement, is the current LEO carry more bullets in their guns.
The only constitutional form of “law enforcement” that we have in this country is the constitutionally elected Sheriff and his deputies NOT some unconstitutionally “appointed” Communist Police Chief and his thug Cops. Of course the appointed Police Chiefs are going to follow the dictates of Communist Obama. By the way, about the only people who feared the police in the 1940’s Germany were the Communist Jews…….except in the Jew owned media and Jew owned Hollywood.