Analyst's note:  Absolutely must hear this "watchman on the tower" speak about the Department of Homeland Security who is working with law enforcement to build a “domestic army” ... because the federal government is afraid of its own citizens.  We repeatedly see that even very minor violations of the law can result in SWAT team raids. Just recently we shared a story about WW2 hero refuses medical care, so cops kill him .... in his nursing home and Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America.

It is not just local police departments that are being militarized.  This is happening on the federal level as well.  In fact, even the Department of Education and NASA now have their own SWAT teams…  American citizens are also having to endure SWATting: The left's new tactic to silence and terrorize conservatives

We ask, "What are the national security objectives that have been set?"  We also have Obama Placing Foreign Cops Operating Inside U.S. Above U.S. Constitution.

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
- President Obama, Colorado, July 2, 2008

We now have the "TSA Is Coming to a Highway Near You."   Yes, this is the same TSA who has rigorous training less demanding than the requirements of becoming a local security guard.  Not to mention their lack of authority.  That's it?  Come on people, you have  got to be kidding me!  "We the People" will NOT be conquered by foreign or domestic forces!  Remember this:

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
― Patrick Henry

Intimidation is the name of the game.

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[....] The comments by the Colonel, whose identity remains unknown, were made during public testimony at a Concord City Council meeting on Tuesday. The meeting concerned a decision on whether to accept a $260,000 Homeland Security grant on behalf of the Central New Hampshire Special Operations Unit to purchase a BearCat armored vehicle.

The purchase of the vehicle has been surrounded by controversy after the city’s Police Chief wrote in an application filing to the DHS that the vehicle was needed to deal with the “threat” posed by libertarians, sovereign citizen adherents, and Occupy activists in the region.

Referencing signs in the crowd which read “More Mayberry, Less Fallujah,” the Colonel spoke of how he didn’t even have armored vehicles when he was stationed in Fallujah.

The Colonel’s role as a Ministry of Defense coordinator was to command, train and equip the Iraqi Army, noting that he helped do everything he could “to make it as strong as possible,” but that “Homeland Security would kick their butts in a week.”

Stressing that it was unlawful and unconstitutional to use US troops on American soil, the Colonel warned, “What’s happening here is we’re building a domestic military,” adding that police are now “wearing the exact same combat gear that we had in Iraq, only it was a different color.”

The Colonel warned that the DHS was following military tactics by, “pre-staging gear and equipment” in order to build a “domestic army” while shrinking the US military “because the government is afraid of its own citizens.”

The Colonel slammed the idea of law enforcement purchasing militarized vehicles for domestic security, noting, “The last time more than ten terrorists were in one place at the same time was September 11th and all these vehicles in the world wouldn’t have prevented it nor would it have helped anybody.” [....]