I'm going to quote directly from a Wall Street Journal article from Friday, June 17, 2016, the first two paragraphs. That should scare you out of your wits, as it has me. Here goes.
"Special agents at the IRS equipped with AR-15 military-style rifles? Health and Human Services "Special Office of Inspector General Agents" being trained by the Army's Special Forces contractors? The Department of Veterans Affairs arming 3,700 employees?
"The number of non-Defense Department federal officers authorized to make arrests and carry firearms (200,000) now exceeds the number of U.S. Marines (182,000). In its escalating arms and ammo stockpiling, this federal arms race is unlike anything in history. Over the last 20 years, the number of these federal officers with arrest-and-firearm authority has nearly tripled to over 200,000 today, from 74,000 in 1996. What exactly is the Obama administration up to?"
The piece goes on to show that various other bureaucracies, such as The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, Small Business Administration, Social Security Administration, Education Department, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and others, are now heavily armed and have arrest capabilities. Please understand this America. These paper shuffling, inferiors of me and you, can ARREST US, at their whim, and are heavily armed. Did they have to pass the tests and examinations we have to pass in order to buy a gun? Did they pass on having no mental impairments or history? I have always thought it wonderful that Americans have many hundreds of thousands of guns in their possession, and thought that this fact scared the bejesus out of the government, as we could revolt and throw them out if they got too far out of line, or destroyed enough freedom that we, the citizenry thought it may be wise the throw the bums out, and use our guns as enforcement tools. Now, the worthless, freedom robbing, unconstitutional, bureaucrats have been armed and can arrest us?
No where in our Constitution, are powers given to the president to issue executive orders, appoint a cabinet, or do 95% of what Obama and others have done, with Obama seemingly trying to break America apart through just about everything he has and is doing. We are in great danger in 2016 from over 200,000 self-aggrandizing bureaucrats with loaded guns and arrest authority. WHO, CONSTITUTIONALLY GAVE ANY BUREAUCRAT THAT POWER, OR FOR THAT MATTER, A CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY TO EVEN EXIST AND BE A "FEDERAL OFFICER." Who, Constitutionally, has the power to create an armed "federal officer with arrest powers?" The Constitution says that Congress shall have the power to write and vote laws into existence, and they must be signed by the president after passing both houses. This means that the thousands and hundreds of thousands of 'regulations,' 'rules,' and even the very existence of bureaucracies are literally unconstitutional. Once traveling down the road to total government, is there any way to reverse that course? Does the 'Republican Establishment,' who so hates Donald Trump, consist mostly of "neo-conservatives" who thrive on foreign wars, foreign aid, legislating their ideas of morality, continually increasing size and cost of government, and trying their best to imitate Democrats? Is that why the "Weekly Standard" guys and other 'neo-cons' hate Trump so much? After all, he is no politician, and America is sick to death of politicians. Time marches on, and each day witnesses bigger government, higher taxes, and now…"armed bureaucrats with arrest powers." Can our relentless slide into abject slavery, administered and enforced by armed bureaucrats with arrest powers, be stopped?