DHS Reportedly buying 2,700 Light Armored Tanks for Use in USA

It’s difficult not to become a conspiracy theorist when you read news reports about the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is buying thousands of military style (fully automatic) assault weapons and billions of rounds of ammunition.  Now there are multi-reports that DHS is purchasing 2,700 light armored tanks to be deployed in the United States.

Is America turning into a Liberal Fascist police state?

Modern Survival Blog reported:

The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.

Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late, I decided to dig slightly deeper and discover more about the vehicle itself.

The new DHS sanctioned ‘Street Sweeper’ (my own slang due to the gun ports) is built by Navistar Defense (NavistarDefense.com), a division within the Navistar organization. Under the Navistar umbrella are several other companies including International Trucks, IC Bus (they make school buses), Monaco RV (recreational vehicles), WorkHorse (they make chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).

DHS even released a video on their newly purchased MRAPs.
Via Pat Dollard:

“If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.”
― Jonah Goldberg

Fast and Furious Lawsuit Filed by Parents of Murdered HSI Agent

A lawsuit charging government conspiracy and cover-up was filed last week in the United States District Court Southern District of Texas Brownsville Division by the parents of murdered ICE Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Jamie Zapata and Special Agent Victor Avila, Jr.

The lawsuit was filed against the government, straw purchasers, individual government officials, gun dealers and others deemed to share in responsibility per the complaint.

The complaint charges the United States government breached its duties “by failing to abide by policies regarding arms export regulations; safe travel; proper oversight of employees; issuing defective vehicles; gunwalking; failing to disclose known dangers involving gunwalking; and Defendant’s continued violations.

“Defendant’s violation of these statutes and federal firearm laws and regulations constitute negligence per se,” the complaint continues. “Defendant, having knowledge of the dangers posed by the violation of the statutes, proceeded with the violation of public safety statutes and federal laws and regulations in conscious disregard for the lives and safety of their agents, including Agents Zapata and Avila.

Included in the list of answers the plaintiffs are seeking is the key question that has so far evaded investigators in determining a definitive answer for: “Who authorized the gunwalking? Where is/are he/she/they now?

The Obama administration has not been objectively covered by the main stream media.  The lame stream media is using the First Amendment to promote a liberal fascist agenda, making both the broadcast and print media a progressive propaganda machine for the the the Democrat Party.

Perhaps this lawsuit will force the defendants to share the truth about Fast and Furious and the cover up. 

“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.” ― Bruce Coville

Judge Rules ICE Agents can Sue Obama for Violating Constitution

Federal Judge Reed O’Conner ruled on Friday that 10 ICE agents and officers indeed do have standing to challenge in Federal court the so-called Morton Memo on prosecutorial discretion and the DREAM directive on deferred action.

The agents filed their complaint in October, charging that unconstitutional and illegal directives from DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton order the agents to violate federal laws or face adverse employment actions. This is a major first step for the ICE agents in their case against the administration!

In his 35-page decision, Judge O’Conner found that the ICE agents and officers have standing, but that the State of Mississippi does not. He has not yet ruled, however, on the agents’ motion for a preliminary injunction to halt implementation of the DHS directives.

The lawsuit was filed last June after Secretary Napolitano issued a memo offering deferred action and employment authorization to illegal aliens under age 31 who meet certain criteria similar to those outlined in the DREAM Act, which has failed to pass Congress on three occasions.

Even before that, though, ICE Director John Morton essentially gutted immigration enforcement by issuing a memo on prosecutorial discretion that, in effect, prohibits ICE agents and officers from arresting or removing any but the most violent criminal aliens. Under Morton’s stated policy, most of the 12 million or so illegal aliens that the administration wants to legalize are currently safe from deportation.

This is just one of the reasons that the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council voted unanimously that they have no confidence in Morton’s ability to lead the agency. Aside from ordering ICE agents to not enforce federal immigration laws, Morton has also gutted worksite enforcement and the 287(g) program, which is a cooperative effort between local law enforcement and federal immigration agents.

The 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents filed a federal lawsuit against the Obama administration seeking an end of President Barack Obama’s new non-deportation policy derided as Obama’s Dream Act Light by opponents of his illegal immigration policies, according to the ICE agents’ union.

The ICE agents filed the lawsuit in federal court in one of the state’s most affected by the Obama policy—Texas. The agents allege that President Obama’s policies have reduced the number of illegal aliens who will be deported back to their country of origin.

The ICE agents allege in their lawsuit that the Obama executive order causes a confusing situation in which they must choose between enforcing federal laws and being disciplined by their commanders, or obeying their supervisors thereby violating oaths of office and a Clinton administration law—passed by a bi-partisan Congress in 1996—that mandates the deportation of illegal aliens.

Kris W. Kobach, the secretary of state in Kansas, is representing the ICE agents in their lawsuit. Kobach has been a leading voice in support of state immigration legislation such as Arizona’s controversial law.

In the 20-page legal complaint, the agents state they’ve been ordered to ignore an entire category of illegal aliens. The agents allege they were told to stop requesting proof of citizenship or immigration status.

“Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and her underlings want their agents and officers to just take the word of an illegal alien without verifying his or her statement,” said former police commander David Scher. “It’s as ridiculous as releasing a suspected bank robber who states he didn’t commit the robbery without any verification by police officers,” he said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent Christopher Crane, President of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, the union representing America’s more than 7,000 ICE agents and personnel, and Border Patrol agent George McCubbin, President of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing America’s more than 17,000 border agents and personnel, both blasted President Barack Obama’s de facto “Dream Act,” and the actions of superiors at their respective agencies.

We Have Just Begun to Fight

Yesterday we had the pleasure of having lunch with many U.S. Customs Office of Investigations friends and former co-workers.  We had the best turnout ever at this annual event.  I am pleased to report that there are still some federal employees who take their oath to support and defend the Constitution seriously.

It’s been over 25 years since many of us at yesterday’s gathering first met. Most of us transferred from many different agencies to “mother” Customs in 1987. We were all happy to see former Dallas Special Agent in Charge Wayne Frandsend yesterday.   Wayne was one of the few agents who spend his entire career with Customs, suviving the DEA purge in 1973.  He’s a patriot who retired to his home state of Utah.  Recently Wayne set Bill O’Reilly straight on the Second Amendment in an email, which O’Reilly read on the air.

Congratulations to three more of my former colleagues who will be retiring at the end of the month.  Working as a Customs special agent was the second bet job I ever had.  Retirement is by far the best!

This has been a very active week due to Bob Costas introducing the gun ban agenda which will be a primary theme in Obama’s second term . Of course, his lecture at half time on Sunday Night Football was sanctioned at the highest levels of the White House, just like Operation Gun Runner (aka Fast and Furious).  Gun Control will be the Obamacare of the second term.  NBC is the primary propaganda outlet for the current White House, though CBS, ABC, CNN and others are constantly battling to replace them as the voice of liberal fascism in America.

Bonzer Wolf Today™ added a significant number of first time readers and Twitter followers this week.  Both our First and Second Amendment civil rights are under attack from the Progressive Party, formerly known as the Democratic Party.  The liberal fascists think the fight is over.  It’s just getting started.  We are behind in the battle.  But this is a war that we simply can not and will not lose. 

Here is one of the many emails I received this week:

I have about half a dozen core issues I am concerned about as a constitutional conservative, and gun control is at the top of my list. I know I am preaching to the choir.

I know all the historical perspectives. From the key part of the 2nd Amendment “….The right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” to the Militia Acts of the 1890`s that redefined what a Militia (National Guard) is, to the NFA 1934 banning “Machine Guns” to the GCA 1968 which banned Mail Order sales of Firearms. Never Mind the Brady Bill, and Assault Weapons Ban.

We have let the progressive left define the argument over the last 30 years. From code phrases (dog-whistle) like “reasonable” and “common sense” gun control .We know these phrases are the hallmark of the Gun-Ban Lobby, An assault weapon is  now defined as any semi-automatic rifle that has a magazine of more than 10 rounds and “looks like” a true fully automatic assault weapon. If it has a Hi-Cap Mag, Pistol Grip and a flash-hider/muzzle brake it is an assault weapon.  

Some of the moderate left argues that they don’t want to keep people from so-called “legitimate” ownership of firearms for such purposes as hunting, target pracice, and self protection in their own homes. The founding fathers made no mention of hunting, or target practice. Hunting was indeed a way of life and substinence for the majority of Americans in 1787. They needed no constitutional protection to own firearms to live and eat. We constitutionalists argue that the “…right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms.” was based on the right to resist an oppressive government, than it was for hunting, which was a fact of life for the majority of Americans in 1787. Target practice only involved learning how to shoot at the time. Home protection was a given.

The far left progressive gun-ban lobby uses these false arguments to further their goal to abolish civilian gun possession. They use like minded “useful idiots” in the left dominated Main Stream Media to use any tragedy to exploit this nonsense to the already indoctrinated unwashed masses. Our public school teachers, having already been trained by far left professors, have been teaching this far left anti American, anti Constitutional propaganda to our children for 30 years.

I couldn’t have said it better.  This is the core issue that we must deal with if we are to remain a free people.  Make no doubt about it.  They are coming for our guns and our freedom. 

”To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…” ~Richard Henry Lee

ICE Agent Suspended for Enforcing Immigration Law

The Obamanation has made it clear that the United States is an open border country.  If you enter the country illegally from south of the border you have less than a zero chance of being deported if you aren’t arrested for committing a serious felony. 

Todd Starnes reported in a exclusive on Fox News  that a veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing suspension after he refused to release an illegal immigrant who was not considered a priority target under the Obama Administration’s new immigration enforcement policies.

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Morale among Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is at an all-time low more than a month after the Obama administration announced major changes to the nation’s immigration enforcement policy, according to the head of a national agency representing thousands of agents.

“Morale is in the toilet right now,” said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council. “Most of the guys out in the field are just in an uproar.”

“They’re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying to uphold U.S. law,” said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council. Crane is a union representative acting on the unidentified officer’s behalf.

The officer under fire is an 18-year law enforcement and military veteran.

On March 27 he and another officer were conducting surveillance on a vehicle in Newark, Del. with plates that were registered to a criminal alien target. During the surveillance, they observed an individual get into the vehicle. The person was detained, questioned and taken to an ICE office so that his fingerprints could be run through a federal database.

The individual was not their criminal alien target. However, he was a 35-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico who had ten previous traffic violations – including driving without a license.

Two supervising officers, including the acting field director, intervened and ordered the officer to release the illegal immigrant. The acting field director sat down with the illegal and explained that he was going to be let go because he was not a “presidential priority,” Crane said.

According to a “Notice of Proposed Suspension,” dated July 19, the officer “failed to follow these supervisory instructions, when you arrested a non-targeted alien who did not appear to meet any of the ICE priorities.

Ironically, the illegal alien in this particular incident was given better treatment than an American citizen would have been in similar circumstances.

A spokesman for the Newark Police Dept. told Fox News that if an American had been stopped on the same charges – they would have been put in jail. The spokesman said officers would have let the judge sort out the details.

How many people do you know that are unemployed?  Unemployment like cancer affects every family in America.  Yet your President is paying thousands of federal agents NOT to enforce immigration law.  Your President is giving illegal aliens jobs in America, while over 10% of the citizens are unemployed or under employed.

The DHS Budget for fiscal year 2012 is $57 BILLLION dollars. Polls show that about half the voters plan on casting their ballot for Obama in November.  Wake up America!