Since student debt is in the news cycle this week. As I set out seeking details about how this will come about and its potential effects on everyday American taxpayers, I ran across an article about how the US Marshal’s Service sent 7 armed officers to arrest a man on a delinquent $1500 student loan from over 30 years ago. But of course, that rabbit hole went sideways, or rather I did. Someone in a FBook group posted a short cut n’ paste text meme that was based on the recent article by Cal Thomas posted by The Epoch Times and The Daily Signal called “Guns of Washington: 5 Agencies With Gun Stockpiles.” I was totally unaware of this opinion piece until I began writing the conclusion for this piece. Although he doesn’t provide any proven source information other than the 2017 Forbes article, I decided to delve just a bit deeper and provide newer and more detailed information with my own brand of sarcasm.
I quickly ran across the since published GAO (Government Accountability Office) Audit report on federal agencies spending literally billions on militarization. Yes, this was somewhat in the news not so long ago, but the mainstream corporate media outlets drowned it out. Granted that the list of agencies is ‘primarily’ law enforcement in nature; however, there are some surprises and “what the eFFs”.
On page 29 there is a table showing the US Department of Health and Human Services and subordinate entities. For example, the DHHS Office of Investigation has as of the date of the report almost 200 Fully Automatic Machine Guns and nearly 400,000 rounds for those weapons. Better yet is the entry about the National Institutes of Health reporting that the information is too sensitive to provide. What? Why would they need weapons too sensitive to report and better yet under what damn authority could they respond to a GAO Audit this way? What the eFF is Fauci hiding?
Continuing through the report, the subject of accountability, or rather lack of is addressed. From this section I have several questions:
Why does the EPA needs weapons and why they are losing their weapons?
Why does the BIA need to have arms purchasing language like this:
“Consistent with FPDS-NG guidance, the entire purchase was categorized as guns, through 30mm”
Why does the VA need breeching and riot equipment and “Large Caliber Launchers”?
Although spending on weapons is huge, the spending on equipment and ammunition is astonishing. In reviewing the way ammunition (and weapons too) is purchased and tracked there are a lot of inconsistencies that look to actually add up to far more than these agencies reported to the GAO. The DHS is the worst at being honest about their massive buildup. The GAO report concluded that the DHS overall equipment spending was up to 677% under reported in the ‘other than weapons’ category and half of the actual weapons spending.
But let’s get back to the NIH and why they have almost off the book’s tactical teams? After some more digging, I found that they do in fact have a very large law enforcement/security apparatus that has very broad powers.
They even operate/contract their own troll army to “collect and counter information on the internet”. Let that sink in… but not too deep. This where the 1811 factor comes in. 1811 is the federal government’s GS or ‘Personnel Identifier” for employees that are classified as “Special Agents”. The fed’s version of DoorKicker/Operator. When most folks think of US Federal Special Agents, they tend to be picturing FBI, DHS, DEA and ATF, and of course those NCIS folks popularized by Hollywood – most of the characters in those shows and movies are not 1811s. These other positions do exist and there is an absolute plethora of them, to the tune of nearly 200,000 of them across the United States. But there are also a ton or more that exist in agencies that you wouldn’t think had them, much less need them. The NIH is definitely one of them. The NIH actually has a large physical law enforcement presence that does include military styled units deployed throughout the United States
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Sleipnir… I came across this term while looking into what the NIH has going on. This was the name given to a security operation conducted by the NIH and EPA in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. This definitely piqued my interest. Since the onset of the CV19 pandemic, several universities to include UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke seem to pop up in the footnotes of almost all academic papers published about viral gain of function research surrounding SARs viruses and those studies are co-authored by many Chinese Nationals, some that even returned to China to work at the infamous Wuhan Labs. The NIH has literally hundreds of acres in the Raleigh-Durham area with one being over 300 acres housing a research facility that requires dozens of specially trained security personnel (the aforementioned 1811s) and private security contractors to provide security to whatever they are doing there. Be aware that these 1811s are not gate and desk attendees, but trained operators that have access to machine guns and large caliber projectile weapons.
So, what is happening inside those RTP facilities that require on-site high force security teams to secure? Mind you that almost everything involving the physical security apparatus with the NIH is from redacted GAO files and nearly 10-year-old information that is difficult to find. One can only imagine what that NIH security apparatus looks like now since the whole bat-monkey virus pandemic and subsequent related issues have occurred. BTW, I’m still looking for updated information on this.
References:
The Daily Signal – “Guns of Washington: 5 Agencies With Gun Stockpiles.” Cal Thomas, August 23, 2022 - https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/23/5-government-agencies-with-guns/
Government Accounting Office Report: Federal Law Enforcement: Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammunition, and Tactical Equipment - GAO-19-175
Published: Dec 13, 2018. Publicly Released: Dec 13, 2018.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-19-175
“The Secret World of Government Debt Collection
Published on February 17, 2015
https://money.cnn.com/interactive/pf/debt-collector/government-agencies/?iid=EL
https://money.cnn.com/2016/02/16/pf/college/arrested-student-loan-marshals/index.html
Department of Education Office of Inspector General Misc. :
https://www.coheao.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/OIG-Fundamentals-Presentation-Mid-Atlantic-Region.pdf
Department of Health and Humans Services Office of Inspector General:
https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/news-releases/2017/vet.asp
“Federal agents from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS OIG) perform arrest and search warrant operations. HHS OIG's investigations expect over $5 billion in recoveries in 2019.”
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/6820988/federal-agents-us-dept-health-and-human-services-office-inspector-general-hhs-oig-perform-arrest-and
https://www.facebook.com/OIGatHHS/posts/pfbid02225vEFuMhaxz8egaqaHSdEYbGTqFvpqf4duskQdDR1CkfzoQRzjr2tAEJNFBUital
Forbes October 20, 2017 article on the militarization of Federal agencies:
Hollow-Point Bullets – Despite being outlawed by the Geneva Convention, federal agencies spent $426,268 on hollow-point bullets, including orders from the Forest Service, National Park Service, Office of Inspector General, Bureau of Fiscal Service, as well as Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
