by Frank Holmes, reporter
They carry a badge. They have the greatest high-tech spying equipment and “munitions” money can buy. They answer to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
And, if you’re a Republican, critics are concerned they may just be coming to your door.
The U.S. Capitol Police, the cops who protect the Capitol building, announced it will be moving out of Washington and setting up regional offices all over the country.
The D.C.-based police force said it’s already in the process of setting up new offices in San Francisco, California, and Tampa, Florida—but that’s just the beginning.
An official press release from USCP said, “The Department is also in the process of opening Regional Field Offices in California and Florida with additional regions in the near future.” The Capitol Police are already drilling for future encounters in Virginia Beach and Seattle. The Capitol police have never left our capital city in its entire 193-year history, but now these local D.C. cops will go anywhere and everywhere in the country is “to investigate threats to Members of Congress,” according to Acting USCP Chief Yogananda Pittman.
No matter where they are in the country, they answer to Congress — and Congress answers to Nancy Pelosi.
Remember when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said that she felt threatened by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene allegedly raising her voice? Even though no one documented or proved that ever took place, Pelosi called Greene’s supposed actions “a cause for trauma and fear.”
Will Pelosi send her private police force to investigate Republican members of Congress every time a Democratic snowflake gets triggered? If you’re suspected of saying something that maybe, possibly could be interpreted as “violent,” will they show up at your door?
Some left-wingers are already chomping at the bit to see their political enemies get wiretapped. The left-wing website Axios wrote, “With Trump stirring up excitement for a 2024 run and suing social media sites, those threats (to physically hurt Congressmen) don’t seem out of the question.”
Newsmax wrote that the new U.S. Capitol Police have been “training with the National Guard to deal with civil disturbances and increasing its use of force.”
USA Today reported that the federally controlled police force has already bought “additional helmets, shields and munitions.” Pelosi’s police are also “receiving state-of-the-art surveillance technology through a loan from the Department of Defense,” the newspaper said.
The USCP says it’s changing its focus and direction completely, from a group of cops whose job is to protect one building to one that sends militarized police with surveillance equipment into your neighborhood.
The USCP press release said it has been working for “months” to “enhance security around the Capitol Complex”—like standing guard outside thick rolls of razor wire to keep you out.
Then it plans to “pivot towards an intelligence-based protective agency.”
“Those are just some of the improvements the United States Capitol Police is making, with the support of our Congressional stakeholders, in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack,” Pittman said Florida Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack said she found all this “reassuring.”
“The hardworking law enforcement officers of the Capitol Hill community work tirelessly to protect Members and staff and I know their work in this capacity will only continue, especially as they expand into field offices in California and Florida,” she said.
But people who know the government’s history of persecuting their political opponents think it’s anything but OK.
Conservative writer Nick Arama at RedState.com called the nationwide Capitol police expansion “troubling because of the clear potential for abuse,” and because the USCP is “not subject to FOIA,” the Freedom of Information Act, which lets average Americans know when or how government agencies are peeping in on them.
“So basically there’s going to be a police force, controlled by the Democrats, without any ability to demand transparency from it that’s going to investigate ‘threats’ to members of Congress and provide ‘security’ for them,” he wrote. “Does anyone else see a potential problem here?”
Who do you think they will be gathering intelligence about? “This on top of governmental operatives now being sent to go door to door to push people to get vaccinated,” Arama wrote. “We’re going to a pretty concerning place here.”
That place sounds a lot like China, Cuba, or Venezuela—but nothing like the United States of America.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”