Thursday, July 1, 2010

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.

POSTSCRIPT: This has been a Black Humor Event brought to you by the Sipsey Street Irregulars.

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

36 comments:

typeay said...

Don't forget your latex gloves, and eye protection.

ehs.ucsb.edu/units/biosafety/biorsc/biopdf/humanbld.pdf

(The bio-safety how to clean up large amounts of blood, instruction page.)

Talk to an EMS crew. We did it all the time.

Knitebane said...

I just have one question...

Whatcha gonna do with all the donuts?

Leaving that stuff to rot will attract insects and spread disease.

Anonymous said...

Well said. Only a matter of time until it comes to this. I've lost all respect for "law enFORCEment"

Toaster 802 said...

Damn! And here I have been paying for my gear. (and my taxes have been paying for theirs). Talk about a double wallet whammy...

Craigslist is my supply officer. Not a great one, but it is a start...

Anonymous said...

I am aware that this post was intended as "tongue in cheek", but I can guarantee it strikes a chord with many folks out there. Unless the present course of government tyranny is reversed, we're going to begin to see these things as commonplace. I'd prefer that those in power would just go home and leave the people alone. Not likely.

Anonymous said...

I think this is a very well written version of what I posted back in November or December where I advocated the exact same thing but I was branded a FED TROLL for my post. The vanity of the local LEO's storm trooper mentality is accurate. The listing of the local PD email list gives all their names and using www.zabasearch.com will turn up their home address. Need some gear, go and fetch what the storm troopers got from the Fed Gubmint. I already have all that I need at this time but always looking for more to pass along to friends & relatives.

TPaine said...

How do I sign up? I am badly in need of a couple of AK-47s, and I'm not too particular as to the condition (unless they are unshootable). And I promise that any extraneous gear I may come across in my journey as an right-wing extremist will be duly added to your inventory if I cannot use it.

(I could also use about a half-dozen Claymores...got a source?)

EMWONAY said...

Just a couple thoughts and suggestions from up North here to help with the success of this new program.

Carry an empty duffle bag in your ruck. We called them "sea bags" in my former branch of service, but to each his own.

An empty sea bag can be useful in the liberation of taxpayer property. On ambushes, it can be carried in a patrol bag, or even folded up and carried in a cargo pocket or empty on your back. This way you just stuff whatever you can find quickly into the bag and go.

Also,

Prioritizing items to be snatched up in these circumstances is not something that should only be thought of in ambushes alone. Always have in mind and make it known to at least a few other leaders what gear is to be sought after for any operation. Possibly even included in every single OPORD given. A simple movement from one AO to another could score a gold mine of needed equiptment due to a chance contact with the enemy.

Sorry for the book of a comment, but I just hope to see this program succeed.

Anonymous said...

Now that is an idea!!! I was in supply in the Army (ran an AK level III)and went through two IGs with top scores. Also on NATO team for a while. So I know a little about the situation. (A damned good scrounger too if I say so myself). This idea really puts re-cycling and re-purposing to a good use.
YeOldFurt

Neil E. Wright said...

sounds like a helluva good idea to me!!! :D
★ FREEDOM! ★

Brian said...

"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"

Please site your sources for this assertion. I do not mean a handful of ancedotal incidents but a breakdown by year of a increasing number of citizens killed by law enforcment officer.

ParaPacem said...

T.PAINE - Just remember, Front Toward Enemy ;o)
( ever wonder how far our society has collapsed when * that * is a necessary instruction???)
But I like the article a lot. In act, I want one of them there "ass salt rifles" I been hearing about since the 80s. Now, I never shot nobody in the ass with salt, not rock salt nor sea salt nor Kosher salt, but it does sound kinda amusing.

straightarrow said...

No Brian, if you have reached this late date and are not aware, then it is purposeful. Go pound salt.

Slobyskya Rotchakokov said...

Hey BRIAN -
Granted, " inquiring minds want to know", so if you have the burning desire to learn about this, wouldn't you feel much more secure in your knowledge if you did your own research? You could probably spend a couple of hours on the web, between YouTube and the search engine of your choice, and find out what the rest of us already know.
And you would feel much better since you would not have to take the word of others who did your work for you, but you would know that your own efforts had gained knowledge for you.
Good hunting!

Dutchman6 said...

Brian sez: "Please site your sources for this assertion. I do not mean a handful of ancedotal incidents but a breakdown by year of a increasing number of citizens killed by law enforcment officer."

I have placed a couple of sources at the tail end of the post. Work your way through those, go ahead and puke, and then we'll chat.

Unless of course you're an "Only One" yourself.

Mike
III

Jimmy2Times said...

Hey Brian, here you go:

http://www.cato.org/raidmap/

Ask and you shall receive. I have plenty more links for you and your cop buddies too, if you like. But I'm sure you'll just stick your head deeper into the sand, like always. :-D

J2T

III

Jimmy2Times said...

Ha Dutchman, he won't puke. He'll laugh, have another shot of steroids, and go back out on "Patrol" with his buddies. LOL!

If those people hadn't done anything wrong, the cops wouldn't have KILLED them, right? Right guys?

J2T

III

Anonymous said...

Might be an idea/consideration/ problem that some items recovered might have GPS tracker devices in them to prevent unauthorized use by "criminal gangs".

EMWONAY's sea bag idea is good; might need to use something (strips of aluminum foil?) to disrupt/prevent signals from being tracked.

Is there any device to verify if a device is bugged?

Gunner

Justin said...

Good post.
Tongue in cheek, indeed.

Sometimes, no, most of the time, humor is funny because it is at least partially true. And those people usually do have good gear, bought and paid for by you and I.

The CATO institute put out a good paper titled "Overkill", about the increasing paramilitary raids in the US. A simple Google search should give Brian access to this document, assuming he really wants to learn. Try "overkill cato paramilitary police".

I'm reading "Revolutionary in Ireland" by MacStiofan right now. Seems another highly effective resistance movement had this sort of a STARPP program as well.

Keep it up Mike. Sorry I don't stop in as much these days. I'm doing a lot less online reading/surfing and spending a lot more time on the range, under a ruck, running, or studying.

My 3per brothers should likewise focus on training these days. There is no doubt as to the future consequences of the nation's current path and our ruling class' utter disdain of their subjects.

Justin
III

Brian said...

Mr. Vanderboegh,

Those are ancedotal incidents. I assume you are using the term "only one" to describe a law enforcement officer who presumes that non LEO should not be permitted to own firearms, so to answer your implied question, no I am not a "only one" nor am I a LEO, though I was one during the late 90's.

The link you supplied gives only ancedotal incidents. I DO NOT doubt the veracity of those stories but that does not answer my query, what is the amount of police officer misconduct conducted under colour of law now compared to thirty years ago.
Using valid statistics is the rate, controlled for population growth, the same or increasing or even decreasing?

Janet Incompetano said...

JIMMY 2 = Quite right; and if they had nothing to hide, then they wouldn't whine and cry about swatty bastards kicking in their doors, shooting their dogs and scaring the kids. They would WELCOME these things for the joy of living in a secure police state!

As for "Brian" - I think feeding time for the trolls has passed.

Concerned American said...

Brian:

Here's the link Justin referenced:

Overkill

You have a burden of proof issue, and you are trying to make it our problem.

Folks around the country have already come to their own conclusions, and now, having moved beyond "whether or not", are working on "who", "when", "how", and "who's after that".

See ya on the line.

Defender said...

I'm reminded of "What good is a handgun against an army?"
Our resistance fighters would be able to skip the stage of going out with a kitchen knife to acquire a firearm from a soldier or officer who no longer needed it.
This is the correct attitude. WE didn't start it, WE don't want it, but if it does come, WE won't back down and will give no quarter.

Anonymous said...

Mike are you Dutch?
Forgive my dumbness, I just can't tell, everything that I have read that said Mike before led me to email you because you stir the fires of freedom in the hearts of men.
I emailed you that your words should live on in history, you told me you were just a man standing as God gives you the ability, you also shared some of your health problems.
What you do is so very important.
I would follow you into the fire Mike if you understand my meaning.
Thank you for what you do.
scuffler@msn.com

Anonymous said...

I have seen people shot while a militarized cop stands in front of their car so as to make it appear like his life is in jeopardy all the while if he did not stand in front of the car it would not be, they then execute the person driving forward.

Brian said...

Thanks Mike,

"You have a burden of proof issue, and you are trying to make it our problem."

No I do not, but you have answered my question.

Dennis308 said...

Never let a dead Fed/Cop go to waist.

Dennis
III
Texas

Dennis308 said...

Brian: Please Read this,
I´m going to tell you a story about some Lawmen.

I was living in a small town in Louisiana and one day the local police came and said that they had a complaint of someone firing guns in the neighborhood. I told them that I had heard no gun fire and when did this happen. They said it had been just a short time since they had got the complaint and asked if I had any firearms and I answered truthfully that of course I had a couple of guns. Well they asked to see them. I then went into the house and got 3 guns a.44 mag.Super Blackhawk,a .30cal carbine and a .38 derringer.
Now it just so happens that one of the deputy marshals had dated one of my little sisters before joining the Marine Corps, so I Handed him the Two Smaller Guns and said to check them out. He looked at the guns and said that no these guns had not been fired. I asked him if they had just been cleaned and said no that they were clean but it was at least a couple of days ago. I then said OK now give me back my guns and you can check out the rifle. It was then that the Head Mother Fucker in Charge said no they where not giving me my guns back.
Well I was younger and a lot
quicker to anger(still have that problem)well I jacked a round in the carbine and said that I would have MY GUNS BACK NOW when it looked as though they were about to do something stupid I told them That they would win but That I Guaranteed That I would get Three of Them Before any one of them could clear leather,AND MEANT IT.
Well they saw the error of their ways,And I told them to put the two guns down on the ground holding the barrels and leave and not to EVER come back with out a search warrant.
It is My Opinion that because of some rough time(like now)in this little town that these Officers thought they could just help themselves to someones property and when the saw it was not so simple as that they did not return.
Now before you think B/S I´ll tell you that, Yes this is the Truth So help Me God.

Dennis
III
Texas

Anonymous said...

"butter knife"

Witchwood said...

Can 7mm Mauser defeat a standard-issue ballistic vest? I just got myself a Mauser 95 (Chileno, to tide me over till I can find one with Transvaal or Orange Free State markings) and read somewhere that 7x57 gets excellent penetration. Consider the question academic if you prefer.

"Is there any device to verify if a device is bugged?"

Guns aren't electrical devices, so you should be able to just hit each with a static charge to kill any bug, right?

Anonymous said...

Police are not to be trusted. Here in RI we have a little story about a ex cop named Scott Hornoff, I wonder what he thinks about his ex workers.

http://www.victimsofthestate.org/RI/Hornoff.htm

Jimmy2Times said...

7.62x25 Tokarev will pass through both sides of a level II vest. I have done extensive testing using a PPSH-41. I have not tried it on a piece of level III body armor, however.

J2T
III

Ahab said...

Comment on 7 X 57 Mauser capability to penetrate body armor. That cartridge is just under the ballistics specs. of the 7.62 NATO/.308 Win., and yes, will penetrate body armor and Kevlar helmets, especially if the bullet is steel core.

A GPS tracking chip, one with transmission capabilities is the size of the old postage stamp, something like 3/4" square, and about 1/8th inch thick. The only place I can think of where one could be secreted in a weapon would be the handle. All the rest of the parts are steel and essentially an electromagnetic shield. Could they do this? I suppose, but it doesn't make sense to.

Anonymous said...

Witchwood,
I don't know the answer to your question, but heavy body armor has got to be real uncomfortable in hot weather.

Anonymous said...

If I understand correctly, to beat a class IV ballistic armor you would need a .30caliber round traveling at over 2950fps.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong because I'd like to know too for sure.

Thanks,

Diamondback

Anonymous said...

Since I intend to employ a hit and GTFOOTFAO tactic, I'm not anticipating needing any cleaning up materials. I'll leave that for the JBTs and buzzards/coyotes/vermin to accomplish. Hey, they can't be cleaning up their buddies guts and brains and simultaneously shooting or hunting us. So at least some of there resources will be diverted for a while.

Sounds good anyway.

Scorpion