The Militarization of America

Why Does the IRS Need Guns?

By Dr. Tom Coburn and Adam Andrzejewski | June 17, 2016

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THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA
OPENTHEBOOKS OVERSIGHT REPORT 

Non-Military Federal Agencies Purchases of Guns, Ammunition,

and Military-Style Equipment Fiscal Years 2006 - 2014

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Today, in The Wall Street Journal, our Honorary Chairman Dr. Tom Coburn and Founder/CEO Adam Andrzejewski break our oversight report on the militarization of our non-military federal agencies.
 

We quantified $1.48 billion in non-military federal agencies purchase of guns, ammunition and military-style equipment during the last nine years.

We found that there are more non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authorization (200,000+) than U.S. Marines (182,000). Who Has More Firepower? Share our info-graphic at RealClearPolicy, click here.

Here are some more of our key findings:

1. Sixty-seven non-military federal agencies spent $1.48 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment.
 

2. Of that total amount, 'Traditional Law Enforcement' Agencies spent 77 percent ($1.14 billion) while 'Administrative' or 'General' Agencies spent 23 percent ($335.1 million).
 

3. Non-military federal spending on guns and ammunition jumped 104 percent from $55 million (FY2006) to $112 million (FY2011) from high to low.
 

4. Since 2004, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) purchased 1.7 billion bullets including 453 million hollow-point bullets. As of 1/1/2014, DHS estimated its bullet inventory-reserve at 22-months, or 160 million rounds.

5.  The Internal Revenue Service, with its 2,316 special agents, spent nearly $11 million on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment.

6.  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spent $11.66 million including more than $200,000 on 'night vision equipment,' $2.3 million on body armor, more than $2 million on guns and $3.6 million on ammunition.
 

Please read our Wall Street Journal column, Why Does the IRS Need Guns?, read here.
 

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Beijing Frees a Lawyer

According to the Wall Street Journal International pressure is forcing China to allow attorneys to speak out as to corruption, discrimination, violations of human rights etc.    Here in the United States many of the very same people who are concerned about the Rights of China's lawyers and others to speak out are amazing silent when in the United States JoAnne Denison's blog exposing corruption in the judiciary is deemed by the lawyer disciplinary commission and the Illinois Supreme Court as akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater.

In a Western State a lawyer found that his own mother was the victim of a breach of fiduciary relationship by a corrupt attorney (guardian) and complained truthfully that the guardian had made a large sum of money disappear.    The Department of the Treasury, knowing that the breach of a fiduciary relationship was a taxable event, did nothing.   Law enforcement did nothing.   However the lawyer disciplinary commission acted diligently and forcibly = it disbarred the complaining attorney.    (In Illinois the attorney who breached his fiduciary relationship would be awarded a Continuing Legal Education position of teaching ethics!)   

See: Beijing Frees a Lawyer     (as to china)

Lawyers across the United States of America are being punished for reporting the corruption in the Courts and the same groups of American citizens who protest the outrage in China are silent as to the very same outrage in the United States.    American Political leaders are anxious to raise taxes, but reluctant to collect the taxes due from the corrupt political operatives who breach fiduciary relationships or in violation of 18 USCA 371 and 18 USCA 242 do overt acts in pursuance of the elder cleansings.    Billions in taxes, interest, and penalties are not even assessed much less collected!

The media is also silent as the criminal activity and tax evasion continues unabated!      The American Bar Association (and the local Bar associations) demonstrate their collective contempt for the oath that lawyers take to protect the Constitution as the lead from behind (translation - engage in benign neglect) and maintain extreme silence.  Rule 8.3 and 18 USCA 4 are ignored.

It is no wonder that when the public hears that a bus load of lawyers are killed when their bus falls into the River they (the public) sigh = great start!

				Beijing Frees a Lawyer Beijing frees Pu Zhiqiang, a sign that foreign pressure can help political prisoners in China, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.
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Ken Ditkowsky

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