Could dirty early mean trouble for Demo-Dopes

There is something weird going on
I get the feeling that Demo-Dopes are in much worse shape than anyone is letting on. Polls don’t show it, at least the ones the public see. But is there internal polling that has the Dopes spooked?


I don’t know, but they seem very willing go nuclear very early in the race. Where do they go later in race after saying that Romney killed Soptic’s wife? How does it get any lower?  It reminds of a British exchange officer I worked with at CentCom. He’d come in at 8 am and leave promptly at 5 pm, saying “Sorry gents the Queen only pays me for an 8 hour day.” One evening after we’d been working late for several days over some thorny issue like how many bottles of water each man would take on the bus for the 30 minute ride to set up a static display at the airport.  Alan came over and whispered in my ear with that very proper English accent, “Good God man, what will you Yanks do if you ever have to go to war? You have no where to ramp up to.”

So where do the Demo-Dopes ramp up from here? We’re seeing the dirtiest stuff in Aug. What can possibly come out late in Oct?  Sadly, there probably is something up their sleeve.

If you think you don’t need a gun
Some time ago Lex made a post about the number of armed federal agencies. There are some 50 federal agencies with 10s of thousands of armed officers, supposedly authorized to shoot American citizens. Now we learn that the agencies such as, and no this isn’t a joke, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) and the USDA are stocking up on hollow point ammo.

The USDA ordered nearly 400,000 rounds. Hmm, the agencies claim that the ammo buys are to support re-qualification requirements. As I recall, when we re-qualed in the Marine Corps, it required about 50 rounds. We’d shoot two strings on the first day or two and then single strings.  So, lemmesee, 50 X 2 is about 100 or so X two days is nearly 200 rounds. Then single strings for two days is another 100 or so rounds and 50 on qual day is another, what, 50 rounds. That’s about 350 rounds. So USDA orders 400,000 rounds. So it must have about 100,000 agents requiring re-qual.

Ammo, particularly military ammo, has a shelf life. So it’s unlikely that they are ordering in bulk to keep a decade or so supply on hand. Next, why is each agency ordering its own supply? Why doesn’t DoD order for everyone and get a baulk discount?

But the real question is why are they ordering at all? Hollow point is used in law enforcement because it will fragment and stay within the target. Full metal jacket (FMJ) ammo tends to pass through and through the target and has the potential to create collateral damage. But if the ammo is truly for re-qual, FMJ ammo is considerably cheaper to purchase and will still punch a hole in target paper. Soooo, why buy hollow point?

But the point is why are they buying any ammo and why do have so many federal agencies with the authority to shoot us? Well here’s conspiracy theory whatever number Lex is on. Remember when Little Barry called for “a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded” as the U.S. military, to advance his “objectives” for America? Now we have 50 federal agency empowered to shoot us. Remember when Teamsters President James have you seen my dad Hoffa said, “President Obama, this is your army! We are ready to march! Let’s take these son-of-a-bitches out”?

Now we have the US Army making plans to quell social unrest in America. Posse Comitatus anyone? The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 was passed in response to the use of federal troops to enforce reconstruction policies in the southern states. The law prohibited the use of the U.S. Army to enforce laws unless the Constitution or an act of Congress explicitly authorized such use. This act was amended five times in the 1980s, largely to allow for the use of military resources to combat trafficking in illicit narcotics. Now, with the Army’s planning for US troops to put down “civil unrest” where are we?

What does any of this mean? Probably nothing. Any one of these things in and of itself is probably nothing to get too concerned about. Taken in totality though, these events have all the makings of a very interesting conspiracy theory.