Announcing a new program for the redistribution of taxpayer funded assets: S.T.A.R.P.P. -- State Terrorist Agent Recovered Property Program

STARPP Press Release 2010-01

1 July 2010

State Terrorist Agent Recovered Property Program.

Summary: With the pervasive militarization of police forces at all levels -- local, state and federal -- and the subsequent increase in the use of deadly force and terror on innocent people by misadventure or design, it is likely that future incidents will one day met by countervailing deadly force. It is prudent to plan for this eventuality so that taxpayer funds already spent do not go to waste. The State Terrorist Agent Recovered Property Program (hereafter referred to as STARPP) provides a means by which taxpayer property may be efficiently redistributed to legitimate users.

Background: Over the years, billions of dollars of military assets have been transferred from the Department of Defense to federal, state and local police agencies. This includes everything from helicopters to armored vehicles to night vision devices to automatic weapons such as M-16 and M-14 rifles. In addition to these property transfers, taxpayer funds amounting to many more billions have been spent directly by the agencies involved to "fill the gaps" in their military capabilities. The proliferation of these expensive formations and the need to get some perceived value out of the expenditure has led to their daily use in missions that are frankly overkill, sometimes literally. When you have a bright, shiny new hammer, it is common for every problem to look like a nail whether it is or not.

After the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents in the last decade of the Twentieth Century, the fear and resentment engendered by the militarization of the federal police led to the revival of local self-defense militias on a scale not seen since before 1861. In the intervening 15 years, federal militarization (and federal control through so-called "Joint Task Forces") has permeated to most state and local law enforcement agencies. This had led in turn to the perception of "a Ruby Ridge a week," where local paramilitary forces kill or maim innocents on a regular basis. The increasing public awareness of these incidents, the common cover-up of culpability that most often attend them, the perceived general corruption of the police, and the inability of the courts to reign in the deadly misadventures, has led to a growing loss of public confidence. The militarized police are increasingly viewed not as a bulwark against criminal gangs, but as criminal gangs themselves.

One result of this loss of legitimacy is the reinvigoration of the constitutional militia movement. With the "Joint Task Forces" increasingly under federal control, and the Department of Homeland Security's obsession with armed citizens as the focus of potential terrorism, it is only a matter of time before these paramilitary formations come into direct conflict with constitutional militia units.

How STARPP can help:

The end result of such paramilitary police/militia clashes will be large amounts of public property scattered all over the landscape. This property will either go to waste, or fall into the hands of other criminal actors such as street gangs, without some preparation and planning for its efficient safeguard and redistribution.

STARPP seeks to prevent such wastage by carrying out department by department inventories of public property now, prior to any conflict and by matching these potential losses of public property with "inventories of need" from local militia formations. Thus, after any firefight, no matter how small, newly surplus equipment can be most efficiently redirected to legitimate users.

Examples of how STARPP might work:

Let us say that a militia formation known as the Dogtown Rangers successfully ambushes a Joint Task Force party in the process of executing a dynamic raid on one of their members. This leads to the recovery of various items of public property that the Dogtown Rangers decide to retain and others that are surplus to their needs, including eight 5.56mm M-4 carbines and twelve pairs of boots. As the Rangers are standardized on 7.62 NATO weapons and eschew what they call "poodle shooters" and as they all have comfortable Danners, they have no need of the weapons or the cheap Chinese knock-off boots. Following the decontamination of the recovered JTF gear for hepatitis, various STDs and other blood-borne pathogens, the Dogtown Rangers supply officer contacts STARPP and offers them for transfer to another militia unit. The STARPP supply specialist compares the offered material to local "inventories of need" and discovers that the women's auxiliary of the St. Clair County Avengers has need of light carbines and the Walker County Watchmen are short of footwear and not particular as to type and manufacturer. STARPP then links up the supply officers of the various units involved and the taxpayer-purchased equipment is transferred where it needs to be and is put to a valid public purpose.

Another example: the feral SWAT team belonging to the sheriff's department of XYZ county has previously carried out an extra-judicial killing at the behest of their federal joint task force "brothers." The team is largely equipped with suppressed MP-5s. STARPP has an inventory profile of the SWAT team compiled from department-provided equipment inventories supplemented by open source methods such as studying the website photos of the team (and virtually every SWAT team has a vanity photo posted on the web.). An "inventory of need" comes across the STARPP technician's desk for suppressed submachine guns required for a particular raid. STARPP then advises the militia unit in need where they can obtain these specialized arms.

Inventory Forms

STARPP is currently crafting department inventory forms, as well as "inventories of need" for deserving constitutional militia units. These will be posted on various websites in the near future. Any questions should be mailed to:

State Terrorist Agent Recovered Property Program (STARPP)
Attn: Public Information Officer
PO Box 926
Pinson, AL 35126

NOTE: If you are a member of a rogue police paramilitary formation and the prospect of someone stripping your dead body of your gear makes you disturbed or angry, STARPP is not responsible for your predictable discomfort. Perhaps you should seek a new line of work.

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Sources: See generally http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/ and David Codrea's "Only Ones" posts at this search list.