Support Your Local Police — And Keep Them Independent!

In the 1970s the John Birch Society, a traditionalist anti-Communist conservative organizational network, was vilified, ridiculed, lampooned, and demonized for this widely displayed bumper sticker and their powerful assertion which warned that federal authorities in Washington, D.C. were planning to seize control of the police in local communities, towns and municipalities, and nationalize/federalize all police power. The JBS analyzed what was happening in the country and organized an ultimately successful drive to have Congress abolish the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) which was attempting to nationalize the police.  In those fifty years we have seen dramatic changes in law enforcement, with the widespread introduction of Special Weapons and Tactics teams (SWAT teams) and increasing militarization of police (with over $5 billion dollars allocated for such program initiatives).  Today local police forces are attacked daily (both physically and rhetorically) by militant communist elements of the Left, the regime media, as well as the Democrats in Congress and Biden administration. They are seeking, in the name of “police reform,” to defund and destroy the local autonomy of these institutions, and transform complete totalitarian centralized control to distant draconian forces in Washington, creating a 2021 Americanized Gestapo.  After the resolution of the Derek Chauvin trial, such seizure and control will now accelerate.

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10:26 pm on April 22, 2021