Nations 'standing army' expands to agencies

-Washington, D.C. - "Several recent studies tell the American people we are now subject to regulatory intervention in our daily lives by some 53 federal departments, agencies, watchdog commissions, police or paramilitary forces other than those of the Defense Department," reports an authoritative contributor to the Rappahannock RECORD of Kilmarnock, VA.

"Investigative reporter Sally Foster of the Western Journalism Institute has produced research evidence showing the nation now has a separate 'standing army' of some 60,000 agents armed with the federal enforcement authority and an impressive arsenal of lethal weapons," the paper noted.

Meanwhile, Joseph Farah, editor and director of the Institute told moderator Paul Weyrich of NET-TV's "Direct Line with Paul Weyrich October 15th that allowing for the 68 thousand federal police in the FBI, ATF and the Secret Service, which the U.S. Department of Justice acknowledges, there are about 20,000 more agents assigned now to EPA, the Commerce Department, U.S. Department of Interior and Housing and Urban Renewal.

Farah said there are now Justice Department proposals for a massive consolidation of such armed government personnel.

Farah added: "The growth of these armed agents is phenomenal... last year alone they added over four thousand.... and there are plans for the next three years to train 25,090 more each year for the next three.... The irony is that they are disarming law-abiding American citizens at the very moment they are arming to the teeth various federal agencies.
Clearly, that is not a coincidence." Farah added: "I'm not a prophet but I don't think you need to be to see that this is contrary to what the Founders of this country had in mind for us!"

from Alliance for America October 16, 1997 ALLIANCE News ADVISORY by John Fulton Lewis, http://home.navisoft.com/alliance/afaweb/1097011.htm#Nations