Is This Real

This was sent to me in an email. Photo choped or real???

I copied it to this thread the way I recieved it.

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WE WERE TOLD IT WAS COMING ? EVERBODY SAID - NO WAY ?SHARE IT (GET PREPARED)

OK Guys and Girls,

They really are here, it just isn?t rumor any more.

Right here in western Colorado:



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So, as I was about to park, I saw this vehicle, so I quickly got out of my car and took a picture as it drove by. As the driver saw me do this, he slammed on the brakes, and asked, "Do you have a problem?" To which I replied, "Just taking a picture. Is that illegal now?" He then eked forward a few feet and stayed there in the middle of the road for about a minute and a half until a car approached him from behind, forcing him to move... This, ladies and gentlemen, is the FEDERAL POLICE FORCE (or Federal Protective Service, or United States Secret Service Uniformed Division as they are also known) we have been hearing about and the actual recipients of all that billions (yes, billions) of rounds of ammunition that is being produced for and procured by the Social Security Admin, The IRS, and other various government agencies for what purpose. They are here, right in Downtown Grand Junction. What is the real purpose of a Federal Protective Service and why do we need them? Feel safe yet?

Yes, formerly a part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Obama moved them to DHS as the Federal Protective Service.



Feel safer yet?

Feel safer yet?

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Not realy. I feel that it is an overkill and overtaxes the budget.

saw one of those trucks in NJ on rt 287 the other day

Those officers have always been around. In the past, they drove in unmarked vehicles. You could identify them by their GSA (US govt) license plates. I'd hear them on the state patrol and county radio systems. They're still there, just in marked vehicles.



Just a little trivia... One of their jobs is to enforce the high-mount brake lights on vehicles manufactured after 1985. Granted, it's not a big deal, but the way the high-mount brake light law was written, the federal cops have the ability to stop and ticket you if that light isn't working. I used to be in the emergency vehicle assembly/conversion business and we were not allowed to make high-mount brake lights flash or do anything other than be an indicator of brake operation. We can make the regular brake lights flash and stuff, but not the high-mount brake light.

Quite a few of those on the interstates in NC. Saw one about half a mile from my house a couple weeks ago.

Wish the government would hurry up and take away all our guns. That would make us be much more safer. (said no rational person ever).

I love the fact that they guy had an attitude and I love your response. I suspect your vehicle license was being recorded on the "agitator" list. :angry:

Are you feeling safer folks? More secure?

I'm thinking that creating the DHS was one of the worst things that "Dubya" did. Not feeling more secure or safer. I'm feeling the opposite :grin:



I'm not sure who was creepier: Big Sis or the current clown running the DHS. How Big Sis was ever elected governor by the people of arizona mystifies me. Must have been the same group that keeps giving us mccain. Red states are supposed to be better than this.

I thought this was relevant.

I won't say that I'd rather have the spying than the windfarms but I'm glad that we don't have the windfarms. I understand the point that the list is making but almost all of its alternatives are things that I don't think that the government should ever be involved with; I do like #13 though.

Realizations like this (from others, I realized this long ago) are what piss me off about our spending. I wouldn't mind the amount I'm taxed and may even be okay with more, if a single child in our country never went to bed hungry or we actually cured the uncurable. We can send men to the moon in a matter of months but we can't end hunger or cure cancer?

Charity should be private-they way it used to be and the way that the founders intended it to be-as a public safety net is tantamount to someone robbing a store's cash register and then buying items from that store using the money that they just pilfered from its register.



I am not okay with the government taking my money by force and giving it to those who they deem to be the "less fortunate" (we've been doing that for decades with the war on poverty and we aren't winning that one). I am okay with the churches and charities to whom I give my money willingly using it to assist those who they deem to be less fortunate.



How politicians giving money to people in exchange for votes is called "welfare" and not "bribery" or "extortion" is a mystery to me.