So first of all, they claim the justification for these new branch offices is to "help investigate threats against lawmakers". Which, without any elaboration on their part, can be interpreted as narrowly or broadly as they wish.
U.S. Capitol Police said because the majority of threats come from Florida and California, they decided to open two field offices: one in Tampa, and one in San Francisco.
The field officers are a first for the agency and may play a role in identifying future threats.
The spokesperson said the first field offices will be located in the Tampa and San Francisco areas, and that more locations are planned in the future.
So the federal government is using the supposed threat of terrorism, as an excuse to expand its own reach and powers.....gee where have we seen that before?
I've commented several times my view that the intent of the "defund the police" movement is to secure support for "police reform" that would allow for a federal law enforcement agency. But, this new justification is a lot simpler and makes even more sense.
They've already gone overboard with trying to make the Capitol Riot out to be the worst thing since 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. They keep calling it 1/6, they have journalists and politicians crying about the impact and trauma, and the rioters themselves have been treated as domestic terrorists and imprisoned for months without bail or counsel.
So of course they would use the Capitol Riot as a justification to expand the reach of law enforcement, just as they did with the Patriot Act after 9/11, and with the various surveillance laws passed after Pearl Harbor.
Here's some links for anyone that wants to do some reading
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/january-6-capitol-riot-capitol-police-field-offices-florida-california/
Pearl Harbor was followed by racial concentration camps set up by a progressive administration.
That's exactly what it is. They're using the capitol storm nothingburger as justification for federal police.
They are using every agency under their control to spy on Americans. They are even doing it with the USPS.
The Capitol Police are not subject to FOIA, so they found a way to create an intelligence agency that has even less transparency and accountability than the NSA.
defunding the police is meant to get rid of the current police and install their own.
its not even a new strategy, its literally out of the National Socialist party playbook.
Socialists, national or otherwise, never change. They might alter a tool they use or a adapt a tactic, but their ideals, goals, and philosophy have never wavered.
And the Tampa county GOP sent the governor a letter reminding him he has the authority to tell them to fuck off: https://archive.is/d5R2y using Poxnews source because they have a bias to present and asked a local lawyer, who has no fucking say in this whatsoever, his opinion. Lawyer is all for it, and just so happens to have worked for the FBI and justice department.
Of course, former governor and current cunt in flipflops, the sopping wet pussy Crist says the governor needs to form a Jan 6 truth commission, like, possibly yesterdayever. https://archive.is/GRbtZ Fucking fag.
Yeah we gotta keep a close eye on him. Gotta remember he was a navy seal. The seals in govt are all corrupt, what makes him different?
If Gov Ron DeSantis doesn't tell them to fuck off, it will be clear that he is part of the uniparty establishment.
Look at DeSantis' voting record while in Congress and it is sadly just standard neocon fare.
He has done a good job as governor but there are worrying signs the uniparty might use him to placate the right with a compromise candidate.
Yeah there's more to him than people suspect. But from that bill he signed allowing forced medical treatment and now his no stance on allowing the feds to set up shop in his backyard. I'm skeptical as hell.
I'm hoping it's because he is weighing his legal options. DeSantis hasn't been a complete dumbfuck, he's gone where he can the times he has gone after the federal government.
The Capitol City Police in San Francisco will be used to quash the rampant crime in San Francisco. Resident Bidenflation will then offer "DC Police" as the saviors to other Democrat cities that defunded the police as a "hero". We'll see DC police in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York City before the end of the year. Watch it happen. Hell they will be hiring the police the city laid off.
This is about the Democrats claiming territory for when the US finally splits. Too many people want nothing to do with those fucking pedophile freaks in Democratic circles.
The only thing they will bother to stop is wrongthink.
Unpopular remote government sends it's own private army to other locations to put down rebellious feelings?
Welcome to 1768 Part Deux, prelude to the Boston Massacre and the revolutionary war.
First thing to come to mind was Tiananmen Square, but I'm sure there won't exactly be a shortage of examples for anyone willing to look. Your example is better though, since the China has never been known to have armed citizens.
sheriffs are a problem for them. they come from the community, they are voted for by the community. all local community and autonomy must be crushed. this is all about the guns of course. when the welfare system goes completely bust in < 10 years, and if we still have an armed populace, things will get very very bad for anyone in the fed government.
My local police and sheriff will fuck them sideways if they try. They've zero authority outside of capitol hill. None.
They're gonna write them such a strongly worded letter!
Next up will be firearms seizures. They know they can't go full Commie Pinko Faggot until the nation is disarmed.
National police force = ILLEGAL
Considering the two locations picked, I'd almost give them the benefit of the doubt that those two places are in fact crime riddled shitholes that need federal protection to prevent actual major incidents from happening.
But, we also saw huge amounts of police forces refusing to actually enforce lockdowns and other government demands, effectively neutering their attempted authoritarianism in many areas of the country. That was not a crime that was going to go unpunished.
So I would not doubt every major urban center will get an agency that will then spiderweb out from there.
Bruh....
It was a joke about how complete shit those cities are. Come on now you even specifically excluded the word "almost" from it.
Fair enough.
And I didn't purposefully omit "almost", I was just lazy and only copied the part that was relevant.
Tampa's pretty nice compared to every major city I've been to in the last 10 years. Feels more like a slightly busier mid-size city instead of a century of urban decay packed on its own corpse like Chicago or San Francisco.
The 'burbs are basically rural. Like, 20' TRUMP sign, anti-abortion billboard, farmland between the houses rural.
In my head, I might be confusing it with Orlando. Its been a long time since I've been to Florida.
One of my main criticisms of Trump was that he sat back and allowed California other deep blue shitholes to violate Federal law, so I won't criticize Presiden Harris for doing something to make sure the Federal government actually has the authority it's supposed to. It makes no sense in my mind for US states to be allowed to ignore what is supposed to be the highest law in the land. Violating federal law is the kind of thing that should see states' police chiefs, mayors, judges, governors, literally whoever is responsible, sitting in the back of a van in cuffs like common criminals.
If Trump had actually enforced the law, BLM would not have been allowed to burn down neighborhoods all over the country.
It fucking depresses me to see the Harris administration doing precisely what they need to do, while conservatives all over the western world act like laissez-faire libtards.
Is the US Constitution. Federal law should not supersede state sovereignty. If your position is that federal law has jurisdiction over local affairs, then you have no right to oppose any law they deem to enact and enforce in the future. Welcome to Canada.
IMO the capital police should find themselves "sitting in the back of a van in cuffs like common criminals" if they violate state jurisdiction.
You're vastly overstating how much power the federal government is supposed to have. Although Reagan already proved they have too much power, when He used the highway funds to force the legal drinking age to 21.
I hate that you're right. As much as this a massive power grab from the federal government, at the end of the day they're law enforcement.