Obama’s Dumbest Idea Yet
By Mitch Berg
Remember all the wondrous things Obama wrought by nationalizing the healthcare system?
Remember? Heck, you’ve barely started feeling the pain!
But wait. It gets worse. Now, he wants to nationalize the police:
The report urges the federal government to federalize police training and practices, via the use of federal lawsuits, grants and threats to cut federal aid. So far, Obama’s deputies have cajoled and sued more than 30 police jurisdictions to adopt federal rules in a slow-motion creation of a national police system, similar to the slow-motion creation of a federal-run health-sector via Obamacare.
Obama also used the press conference to insulate his federalized police program — and his allies in the Black Live Matter movement — from popular rejection after the five police were murdered by the anti-cop African-American in Dallas.
“The danger is that we somehow think the act of a troubled person speaks to some larger political statement across the country — it doesn’t,” Obama insisted.
This has the potential to be the most corrosive domestic part of an already toxic legacy.
July 11th, 2016 at 7:04 am
After Ferguson I predicted that a nationalized police force was the goal.
What they want is for you to pay for the cops with your local property taxes, but the cops will be micromanaged by unelected bureaucrats and JD lawyers instead of your elected officials.
July 11th, 2016 at 8:07 am
And then there are more mandates. More rules. And if you don’t submit, financing is pulled. And when you hire police, jailers, etc, you have to wonder if some fascist bureaucrat will approve.
July 11th, 2016 at 9:06 am
When we federalize the police, does that mean that every police force needs to stand aside as guns are walked to Mexican drug lords and ignore evidence of government corruption?
July 11th, 2016 at 9:18 am
Yes, Bikebubba, that is exactly what it means.
Via A&L Daily, I found this excellent piece on the conversion of the civil service into an aristocratic class:
http://www.iasc-culture.org/THR/THR_article_2016_Summer_Andrews.php
It begins with a history of the ‘professionalization’ of the British civil service, which it actually makes interesting, and then discusses our modern American and global elites.
July 11th, 2016 at 9:27 am
I predict they’ll use the same sales pitch as TSA at airports. We can’t leave security to bumbling yokels. We’ll hire experts, trained to FBI standards, steely-eyed crime fighters to keep us safe.
Well, we would have hired those people, but they won’t work for $15.00 an hour, so we dropped the high school graduation requirement, dropped the English language competency requirement, and hired resentful Somalis immigrants.
July 11th, 2016 at 9:31 am
The similarities to the control the Feds have over education abound. As more and more Federal money comes to finance what should be local responsibilities, it is inevitable that more and more Federal control is mandated.
July 11th, 2016 at 9:31 am
“So they knew a lot about particular things. I knew how to think about everything.”
Said every SJW ever.
July 11th, 2016 at 9:56 am
Who would have thought…..a bureaucrat sitting in an office in DC makes up the weekly lunch menus for every school in the nation.
July 11th, 2016 at 10:32 am
I’m guessing the feds approve and encourage the use of remotely detonated, robot bombs. In fact, I’d bet my next paycheck that’s where the Dallas PD got it’s stockpile of C4.
Now that we know civilian PD’s have explosive ordinance, it makes a lot more sense for them to have MRAP’s, too.
They’re gonna need some fed help getting their drones armed too, probably
http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/drones-state-local-law-enforcement-agencies-license-list.html
July 11th, 2016 at 10:34 am
No, Swiftee, they aren’t remotely detonated robot bombs! They are KILLER ROBOTS! AAAAH!
July 11th, 2016 at 11:09 am
In the olden days, firecrackers had instructions: “Lay on ground, light fuse, get away.” Minnesota Democrats decided that was too complex for Minnesotans to understand and banned firecrackers.
BUT, if I can have a remote-control Killer Robot, the instructions could become: “Place in robot hand, light fuse, drive robot away.” Perfectly safe. We could celebrate Independence Day in the traditional manner, legally.
July 11th, 2016 at 11:19 am
Swiftee, having an MRAP makes sense in Mpls and St. Paul just due to the condition of the side streets, especially in winter. In Baldwin, WI, though, it seems hard to justify — but they have one. Giving away military equipment to police makes sense only in the craziest cities (NYC, LA, Mpls, etc) and to defense suppliers, but that’s also why it’ll never go away.
July 11th, 2016 at 12:32 pm
Police State anyone? Somebody gotta enforce martial law.
July 11th, 2016 at 12:44 pm
And when the federal police force round folks up and move them to ghettos or reservations, they will only be following orders.
July 11th, 2016 at 2:28 pm
As this week’s events have shown, the federal government needs to do more to encourage diverse communities.
July 11th, 2016 at 3:39 pm
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the old paradigm. The new one is: diversity, dammit! If you’re not diverse, you’re racist. Diversify or die!
July 11th, 2016 at 9:41 pm
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July 11th, 2016 at 9:50 pm
Of the three ‘racial’ incidents this past week in LA, Minneapolis, and Dallas, only one was explicitly racism motivated, premeditated murder. And that incident was, of course, the Dallas mass shooting of white people by a Black man.
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