And who can forget how the idiot in charge at DHS said the big threat out there was not Islamic extremists who took down the towers but veterans returning from the war.
Now they come out and tell us who a cop needs to worry about. Gangs from South American. Naa. Islamic extremists? Inner city gangs? Nope. No, sovereign citizens!
FBI warns of threat from anti-government extremistsLet me see this. Two officer tragically killed by two morons (who are thankfully no longer with us) and another moron shoots at an officer. We have a serious threat to law enforcement, the people in general, etc. Forgive me if I don't take this as true. Not that I'm saying the authors are lying but they are putting out a BS report.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday.
These extremists, sometimes known as "sovereign citizens," believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.
The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.
Routine encounters with police can turn violent "at the drop of a hat," said Stuart McArthur, deputy assistant director in the FBI's counterterrorism division.
"We thought it was important to increase the visibility of the threat with state and local law enforcement," he said.
In May 2010, two West Memphis, Arkansas, police officers were shot and killed in an argument that developed after they pulled over a "sovereign citizen" in traffic.
Last year, an extremist in Texas opened fire on a police officer during a traffic stop. The officer was not hit.
Legal convictions of such extremists, mostly for white-collar crimes such as fraud, have increased from 10 in 2009 to 18 each in 2010 and 2011, FBI agents said.
"We are being inundated right now with requests for training from state and local law enforcement on sovereign-related matters," said Casey Carty, an FBI supervisory special agent.
An old cliche is "routine traffic stop". There is no such thing. You have no idea what you have pulled over. It could be a nice old lady on her way to the library who just accidentally went through the light. Or you could have a wanted felon who's mind was more on getting out of town instead of paying attention to his driving. I've pulled over two men in a car for an expired registration once and the driver was wanted for a third degree felony.
My point. This report and the propaganda being put out by the feds is worthless. If you want a real threat you may want to take a look at illegal immigration. I live in the Houston area and in the last ten years six Houston PD officers have been killed or injured by illegal aliens in the area. Maybe feds if you would do your job (like securing the border, not letting people with no ties to this country out on parole pending trial, deporting illegals, etc) that would help officer safety.
FBI agents said they do not have a tally of people who consider themselves "sovereign citizens."
J.J. MacNab, a former tax and insurance expert who is an analyst covering the sovereign movement, has estimated that it has about 100,000 members.
So we're taking the word of a tax and insurance agent to see how many nuts we have out there. Great. And I'm paying how much of my tax dollars for this crap.
Eric Holder's just-us department is a real work. He let's the Black Panthers walk on a slam dunk case of voter intimidation, he ships guns to Mexican gangs without the knowledge of the Mexican government and he's shacking down legit business left and right for his boss man, B Hussein Obama.
I just pray a future Attorney General purges the Justice Department of his minions. And then we can have professionals run law enforcement in federal law enforcement again.
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