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These folks may be able to hook you up with positive footage/scenarios John..
http://www.leaa.org/Cops%20Versus%20Gun%20Control/copsversusguncon.html
http://www.leaa.org/Shield%202003/garyaldrich.html
he FBI has a new mission to head off terrorism and prevent future attacks. This means that much of what the FBI does and learns will never see the public light of day. The new mission greatly empowers the “intelligence” side of the agency and helps to streamline the criminal side. No longer will the FBI be able to afford taking on every “Tom, Dick and Harry” violation of federal law that a pandering congress wants to throw at it.
A leaner, meaner FBI is being crafted as I write this article. The inherent danger of this newly shaped agency is that future politicians may be able to use the FBI to investigate domestic dissent, claiming that any opposition to the federal government’s agendas may indicate a willingness to commit terrorist acts.
History gives us a few examples to support this: abortion clinics blown up by pro-life advocates on the Right, various citizens blown up with letter bombs from a nutcase on the Left, and, of course, the bombing of the Oklahoma Federal Office Building also serves as justification for some for watching our own citizens more closely.
But do these cases justify increased citizen scrutiny? Such domestic terrorist acts are rare, and when closely examined, it’s easily determined that these terrorists deranged criminals, really have acted on their own.
Will the FBI end up investigating us all by claiming that every one of us has potential to be a future terrorist because we have an opinion different from the party in power? These are the questions that we should be asking the FBI today.
The pratfalls of the FBI’s past are becoming a distant memory in the wake of 9-11. Let’s hope we’ve seen the last of these significant and preventable errors. But can we get security from terrorists domestic or foreign without significant loss of civil liberties?
That is the question that justifies closer scrutiny of the FBI. Let’s make sure they’re investigating the right people and not looking into your business or mine because we happen to own a gun, or vocally support a politician who adores the Bible or the Bill of Rights.
http://www.policemag.com/Channel/Weapons/Articles/2009/12/Unarmed-Victim-Zones.aspx
http://www.2ampd.net/
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32924109_ITM
