(07-30-2023, 06:27 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: These field offices would just be weird as sh** if the development wasn't so ominous.
Anyone in the USA can get ahold of the Secret Service just by querying contact information on the internet. This "field office" bit is completely unneeded. Someone should point out we are in the 2020s and something called the "internet" exists.
Cheers
It's a classic case of "mission creep" - thy are extending their de facto jurisdiction by the simple expedient of claiming "jurisdiction" wherever a congress critter walks. Their de jure jurisdiction - their jurisdiction under actual law - is the Capitol, in DC. That might be why they call them the "Capitol Police". This is just an attempt to grab power where none exists for them - i.e. outside of that Capitol. It allows them to also dance all over the toes of the FBI and the Secret Service. Now, I'm sure the FBI doesn't care... they've got all that evidence to hide and covering up to do for the BidenHarris regime, and all that... but it seems the Secret Service might have something to say about it if they ever grow a pair of balls big enough to assert their own jurisdiction and stave off interloper agencies...
This is just like if the Florida State Police claimed to have arrest and investigational powers in Sacramento, CA, just because Desantis or some Florida legislator set foot off an airplane in California. I'd bet that if they ever tried that, CHP would have something to say about it! Newsome would have a friggin' cow over it.
But THIS is ok to them, because it's Democrats grabbing power where they have none, That is kind of expected of Democrats these days, and it will always work until someone jerks them up short on their power grabs, and re-directs them back to their own legal jurisdiction.
Having a local yokel arrest a few of them for "impersonating a police officer" - which is exactly what they are doing when they act as police outside of their own authorized legal jurisdiction - would be a great start. I don't have much faith that Minneapolis or Detroit would do that, but maybe some sheriff in Texas might have the testicular fortitude to say "nope, not here, not in MY jurisdiction".
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