From: Conservative Action Alerts
(Watch the video here)
(See the DHS’s video release on their recent purchases here)
Remember, this same department also possesses of over 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition!
ALERT: DHS Secretary Napolitano avoids questioning, solicits thousands more rounds of ammunition. Take Action: Demand Congress to DEFUND and DISMANTLE the police state!
Conservative American,
Over a dozen House members are calling on Janet Napolitano to answer
for the Department of Homeland Security’s recent mass-purchases of
ammunition, guns, and heavily armored vehicles.
It’s not just Representative Leonard Lance, as we reported last week – California Representative Doug LaMalfa is also pressing the DHS.
In a letter to the DHS Secretary co-signed by thirteen House members, Rep. LaMalfa writes:
“Aside from being hard to justify, the timing of these purchases is of great interest as well since, as we all know, the Obama Administration is proposing legislation to further restrict access to firearms and ammunition. The extraordinary level of ammunition purchases made by Homeland Security seems to have, in states such as my own, created an extreme shortage of ammunition to the point where many gun owners are unable to purchase any.
Additionally, the Department has spent, or is asking to spend, significant amounts of money on nearly two billion rounds of ammunition when across-the-board spending cuts are scheduled to go into effect under the President’s sequester plan. According to your recent public statements, these cuts make our nation more vulnerable to a terrorist attack, yet the Department is still spending money on millions of bullets in addition to the billion and a half that have already been sought.”
The California Representative is correct in assuming that
the DHS is helping the Feinstein-types in Congress who have blatantly
stated that their gun-control efforts are aimed to “dry up” the supply
of privately-owned firearms and ammunition.
This is a new hypothesis, but it fits the overall disarm-and-control agenda perfectly.
So the question is this: did the Secretary respond to the House members’ call? No. Napolitano hasn’t said a single word.
(Note: Homeland Security spokesperson Peter Boogaard’s reiteration of
the DHS’ often-used “official” answer – saying that the purchases are
for “training purposes” – offers nothing new, and does not stand as a
substitute for the Secretary’s answer, which is exactly what the House
members are calling for. See Boogaard’s response at US News. Plus, let’s ask this question: If the U.S. military doesn’t even train with hollow-point rounds, why would the DHS?)
What’s more, as the DHS
evades questions on their current ammo supply, they are at the same time
in the midst of stocking-up even more ammunition!
We aren’t kidding. On March 21st – five days ago – Homeland Security solicited an additional 360,000 rounds of ammunition!
Whether, as Rep. LaMalfa believes, the DHS is intentionally buying-up
ammunition to create a civilian shortage, or if the Department is
preparing for some up-and-coming crisis, either way Americans lose.
The Department of Homeland Security – which was born to combat
terrorism in the wake of 9/11 – is now a terror itself. This
ever-growing monster must be slain and Congress carries the sword!
Speaking at a Tea Party Rally in Whippany, New Jersey, Representative
Leonard Lance said he is “concerned” about the DHS’ stockpiling of ammo
and heavily-armored vehicles for domestic use.
The New Jersey Rep. state he “would like a full explanation” from DHS
Secretary Janet Napolitano. He said, “Congress has a responsibility to
ask Secretary Napolitano as to exactly why these purchases have
occurred.”
Rep. Lance concluded his statement on the DHS, saying: “I think we
need to make sure we continue to live in a country based on freedom – a
country based on individual rights – and I hope that we in Congress get
the answers to these questions.”
(Watch the video here)
While Rep. Lance’ statement stands to show that lawmakers
are on our side, asking the DHS to explain its actions is not enough –
what is needed is a wholesale change in the way Homeland Security does
business!
The good news is that we can force this change by demanding our elected servants to investigate and defund the DHS police state!
Some of our Nation’s founders rightly warned against “standing
armies,” having the memory of King George III’s continental troops and
their tyranny fresh in their minds.
It was James Madison who said that, “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”
Madison is being proven correct today; his statement rings true in regards to Obama’s Department of Homeland Security.
Would the Great Virginian Founder have guessed that, in addition to
an Army and Navy, the U.S. President would wield his very own domestic
security force?
The fact is, Obama and Janet Napolitano’s DHS is becoming more and
more militarized. In its most recent move, Homeland Security bought
nearly three-thousand fifteen-ton tanks!
That’s right; the DHS just
purchased 2,717 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles — or MRAPs –
which they have retrofitted to operate American streets.
These “light tanks” are more than capable of withstanding major combat.
Navistar Defense, the company that builds MRAP vehicles, describes these heavily armored vehicles as able to “withstand ballistic arms fire, mine blasts, IEDs, and other emerging threats.”
Recently a YouTube video surfaced that shows a train carrying these MRAP vehicles in the Arizona desert. See the video below.
The question is this: What on earth is this ever-growing DHS expecting?
They are literally preparing for war.
(See the DHS’s video release on their recent purchases here)
Remember, this same department also possesses of over 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition!
Andrew Malcom notes in his piece at Investors that ammunition in this amount could’ve serviced the government’s peak military involvement in Iraq – when 5.5 million rounds were fired per month – for twenty-four years!
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