Why is Colorado Deputizing the Secret Service to Enforce Local Laws?
At this link, we see that Colorado’s government deputizes Secret Service agents to enforce local laws, so they can be used as a proxy force to subdue locally elected law enforcement, should local law enforcement refuse to carry out the dictates of the state’s Leftist government.
Something bothers me about this. Why only Secret Service? Why not FBI/ATF/DHS or any other alphabet soup Federal LE agency with a tactical team? Why give this power exclusively to an agency which is mostly tasked with financial crime, counterfeiting, and Presidential Protection? Is this so the Secret Service can go fishing for local crimes among anti-Obama militia types, expanding their toolkit for generating probable cause on potential threats? Maybe not.
One of the little known authorities in Federal Law Enforcement is the power to deputize agents. Most federal agencies only do it when drawing in outside (credentialed) police officers from local agencies, such as for manpower and crowd control, during events like Presidential inaugurations, or for manhunts. Occasionally, agencies like the US Marshall’s service have deputized US Attorneys and Judges who came under threat, and wanted to carry a firearm for protection. However, Secret Service/Treasury has been the only agency I have read of, that, on political whim, will deputize anyone with the political pull to make stuff happen in DC. Several officials in the Clinton administration were deputized, and sworn in as Treasury agents, for the sole purpose of carrying a firearm.
From those cases it would appear that this requires no training, no background check, no psych evaluation, and no competency requirements be met. Just call your political windmaker, show up at the designated place at the designated time, put your hand on a Bible (or a Koran, or a Lady Gaga CD), and swear in to get your credentials. When you walk away, your words can carry the power of the US Government, you can carry the authority of the US Government, and you can carry any firearm you want, wherever you go, just like any other federal agent. I would be surprised if Valerie Jarret has not already availed herself of this, to augment her personal Secret Service detail.
I wouldn’t be surprised that with the right call from the right official, as an officially sworn, deputized Treasury Special Agent, you and your newly deputized friends could even raid a local Treasury armory, and sign out what you please, to launch whatever operation you want. As an additional benefit, if you can claim to be operating in an official capacity, at the request of any official, you could be immune from civil suit during your operation, like any other Federal Agent. In today’s judiciary, who knows? Judges rule on whims, justifying predetermined outcomes after the fact with the flimsiest of precedents. Four Supreme Court Justices say it would be constitutional to outlaw all gun ownership, because the Second Amendment only gives the government the ability to arm it own militias. Get the right judge, and they can say anything, and make anything legal.
Theoretically, that isn’t supposed to be how it all works, of course. Previously, when politically connected individuals had the Secret Service deputize them, they just used their new official credentials like a National Carry Permit on steroids, so they could carry a gun with them everywhere. But none of these untrained individuals ever wanted to launch a law enforcement operation, and none, to my knowledge, have ever been deputized with the purpose of executing any tasked operation. So the issue of chain of command, clearances, and approvals for operations has probably never been actually considered or tested, and I would be surprised if there is any policy Obama couldn’t bypass with a simple EO, or even just a phone call to the head of Secret Service, in the type of collapse environment we may face in the future.
I find it mildly interesting that a Democrat governor, receives push-back from his locally elected Law Enforcement over unconstitutional abridgments of freedom. Suddenly, he sees fit to give full local LE power exclusively to the one Federal agency which is known for taking any wholly untrained, politically partisan, mental-defective, and making them into legally credentialed, sworn Federal Law Enforcement Officers, on any connected politician’s whim. It would be a great way for Obama to create his own private Secret Police, to take on those evil local Sheriffs, who actually care about the people they serve.
I really hope people take a close look at this site’s work on r/K Selection Theory in humans, and how sustained dopamine release in a population may produce political Leftism in select individuals who are predisposed by genetics and rearing. We have had a lot of resource availability (and a lot of dopamine release) for a long time now, courtesy of our national debt and technological advances.
If you looked at it dispassionately, like a scientist examining another species, you would predict that we will have a cohort of r-psychologies in our population which will be as “r-Leftist” as any cohort in all of history. Stalin? China under Mao? Pol Pot? Castro? We have had such a flood of dopamine that our Leftists should, theoretically, put them all to shame in any matter involving despotism, tyranny, and crimes against humanity. It can’t happen here? Au Contraire, it could, and it could rival anything you have seen in history. It is looking like Local Law enforcement may be the first target of Obama’s new Domestic Security Force, (that is just as well funded and armed as our military).
I suspect, as the economic collapse occurs, the urge to control and clamp down will emerge in a way that it has rarely emerged in history. Bunnies are driven by panic. As the collapse begins, the bunnies’ sheer panic at the thought of losing control, will make them capable of anything. There is almost nothing bunnies fear more than a world of free individuals, interacting freely with others.
Only when the collapse finishes, and the outcome of a more Conservative nation becomes unavoidable (due to resource scarcity bringing back the K-psychology and crushing government) will the bunnies fear of inevitable loss, begin to drive them away from the battle, and into hiding. Once resource scarcity brings back Conservatism, the bunnies will flee for cover. But there will be a hairy period between the panic of the bunnies at the start of the collapse, and fearful hiding due to the return of Conservatism as the collapse progresses.
We need to recognize this, because Leftists are a lot more unhinged than we realize, and they will get more unhinged as their carefully assembled Rube Goldberg government begins to collapse upon itself. As the panic sets in, they will take things farther than we could ever imagine is possible here. If history is any guide, we will tend to see all of this, right at the border of “too late.”
Of course the American Warrior is also a rare breed, and we are heavily armed, as never before in history. I currently believe that the resource scarcity (and dopamine reduction) of the collapse will shift the populace’s attitudes rightward enough, quickly enough, that civil unrest is less likely than a simple hard return to Conservative ideals, and a consequent scurrying of the bunnies to cover. However, I have never seen this type of catastrophic societal collapse firsthand myself. I could be wrong.
If I am wrong, if the collapse just exacerbates the ideological gulf to proportions heretofore unimaginable, and the bunnies begin to really panic and look for anything to hold on to power, things may get interesting indeed.
Addendum : Local Sheriff’s also have the power to deputize. What would happen if the local Sheriffs, who didn’t want to see these laws enforced, just decided to deputize every law abiding citizen in their jurisdiction, with the condition they would be unpaid? I’m not sure under the laws out west it would even be necessary, but you could send them to a quick basic training course, and even let them take the certification test. Give every citizen who wants it status as a fully credentialed Sheriff’s Deputy, with carry privileges, and exclusion from the law, as it applies to mere citizens? Local citizens do elect the Sheriff to run the department as he sees fit, and he can deputize whoever he wants. If he determines he needs to take on a certain number of unpaid Deputies, to properly protect his constituency, there really isn’t anything to stop him. As a bonus, every citizen deputized gets an immediate national Full Carry License, good in every jurisdiction – even little Mikey Bloomberg’s New York City. Oh, what a temper tantrum that would produce in the little boy-king. Conservatives from Conservative regions of the country being fully licensed and carrying in New York City, and he can’t do a thing about it.