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originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
I keep saying that we need to dump the DEA, DHS, ICE, ATF, and FBI. US Marshalls can be used to oversee any US law enforcement that would be needed. The military can handle the borders. Kill the CIA and make it a DIA function. Kill the IRS and tax at points of sale. If the federal government wants to be involved in policing, then invest money in making our police departments better, and use the Marshalls to keep them honest.
originally posted by: AlexandrosTheGreat
Other than violent crimes which should temporarily adopt a stricter burden of proof, I honestly don't even see how a single citizen could be tried at this point for anything knowing just how evilly persuasive and dirty handed the government is or just for fairness sake, who are you to take years of my life away for say, printing a neighborhood currency when the entity trying me is the source of drugs, an instigator of terrorism, accomplice to murder, etc. Id laugh if the government told me no no to a damn thing at this point.
Shrink their budgets and endorse eventual lay offs within law enforcement to reflect the ACTUAL threat of terrorism. Or, Create reasons to keep their budgets and their numbers growing.
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
a reply to: MALBOSIA
Shrink their budgets and endorse eventual lay offs within law enforcement to reflect the ACTUAL threat of terrorism. Or, Create reasons to keep their budgets and their numbers growing.
Exactly. It's the same problem with the War on Drugs. If drugs are legalized or people stop using drugs, law enforcement budgets will plummet & layoffs will happen. So they'd have to create new bogeymen or their own jobs are in jeopardy.
It begs the question, what is the hypothetical end goal of our judicial system? Is it to have a crime-free society which only requires a minimal amount of employees in law enforcement? Or is its purpose to maintain a profitable job market for law enforcement & members of the judicial system? Because those 2 hypothetical goals seem to contradict each other.