{"id":3684,"date":"2011-12-18T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/12\/18\/quote-of-day_18-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:17:07","slug":"quote-of-day_18-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3684","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16519,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16520,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5#project%3DREGS121520111215%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article\\\/SB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16521,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/we-dont-need-no-education.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/we-dont-need-no-education.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an article which described the growth of Federal police ranks<\/a> especially in the agencies not traditionally associated with law enforcement. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970203518404577094861497383678.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5#project%3DREGS121520111215%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">When you have 5 criminal investigators for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and 7 for the Government Printing Office<\/a>, I think you have a problem. I think Ronald Gainer, a former Justice Department official, hits the nail on the head.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Skeptics also say some of these smaller departments tend to wield their powers indiscriminately, even for seemingly minor infractions, in ways that seem self-justifying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you start making innocuous actions crimes, you multiply the number of people who are enforcing&#8221; the laws and regulations, says Ronald Gainer, a former Justice Department official for Democratic and Republican administrations who has cautioned for years against the proliferation of federal law. &#8220;You multiply the number of people who have to enforce criminal laws <b>and they all want guns.<\/b>&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/we-dont-need-no-education.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As Tam said earlier this year<\/a> after the Department of Education SWAT team raid in California, &#8220;Look me in the eye and defend this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an article which described the growth of Federal police ranks especially in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2620,507],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-federal-law-enforcement","tag-quote-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7509,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/7509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}