why do we not construe dept. of homeland security actions as declarations of war against the american public?

an interesting post at freedom outpost.  http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/03/army-captain-demands-dhs-give-up-their-weapons-of-war/ .  retired u.s. army captain terry m. hestilow has written his u.s. senator, senator john cornyn, texas, stating that he believes the department of homeland security is preparing for war against, well, us.  he advances in his letter the proposition that the dept. of homeland security is without legal or constitutional authority to have acquired the war powers it has.

update, 03.26.2013.  at "knuckledraggin' my life away."  a fun blog, with good stuff, btw.  http://ogdaa.blogspot.com/2013/03/dhs-vehicles-on-move.html .  (if the link is "live," just copy and put in the command line, and click, and you are there.  sometimes this machine "brings 'em back home alive," and sometimes it don't.)  end update.

it's a pretty good argument.

my question is precisely this.  why is the department of homeland security, and the obama administration, not to be considered in its preparations for war against us as having in actual fact declared war against us.

if i see some idiot in a d.h.s. uniform driving a mine resistant armored personnel carrier (mrap) down the streets in milton freewater, and he is armed, i believe that i am permitted to construe him as perpetrating an act of war against me, and my fellows.

i don't think i would have any choice but to respond accordingly.  i believe that i am constrained to do so.

john jay @ 03.25.2013

 

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[Pappy Van Winkle]

DHS is using MRAPS as "police" cars! Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Public are some badass dudes and dudettes!

[john jay]

pappy:

aptly pappily put. laughing.

actually, some of us dudes and dudettes are pretty bad ass, to the extent some of the pups just don't realize, just yet.

one of those mrap things shows up around these parts, they are likely to find out just how bad ass we can be.

got into an involved e-mail discussion with a fellow the other day.

he wanted to take the position that the mrap's were legitimate acquisitions, and were not engines of war.

to which i said, utter bullshit!!!

if d.h.s. wanted to get trucks, they could have surplussed/acquisitioned trucks. instead, they got armored personnel carriers.

they intend war. and since "we" are the only ones around these parts, in these parts, i guess the "we" they intend to war upon are "us."

john jay

p.s. i wonder how the air intake/cooling system on one of those things will handle about 5 gallons of gas burning on top of it? always been curious about such things. typically, armored vehicles are pretty tough to the front, sides and with these things on the bottoms. the tops are usually pretty vulnerable, ... , witness all the world's heavy tanks.

we'll see, soon enough, i suspect.

[Pappy Van Winkle]

I expect there will be darkness for a while, til the sun shines again.