Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

December 15, 2009

The RAND Corporation has released a study entitled A Stability Police Force for the United States: Justification and Creating U.S. Capabilities.

The RAND study, which was conducted for the U.S. Army?s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute calls for the creation of a ?hybrid? military/law enforcement unit within the U.S. Marshals Service for use ?in a range of tasks such as crowd and riot control, special weapons and tactics ? and investigations of organized criminal groups.?

Building the SPF within the Marshals Service ?would place it where its members can develop the needed skills under the hybrid staffing option,? summarizes the document. ?Furthermore, the USMS has the broadest law enforcement mandate of any U.S. law enforcement agency?. [This model] provides significant domestic policing and homeland security benefits by providing thousands of additional police officers across the United States.?

The SPF would be a centralized, militarized police unit of the kind suitable to the needs of a dictatorship, not a constitutional republic.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.