On Saturday, Terry M. Hestilow, a retired United States Army Captain from Fort Worth, Texas, posted a letter on Facebook that he wrote to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, warning that the Department of Homeland Security is preparing to go to war with the citizens of the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is with gravest concern that I write to you today concerning the recent appropriation of weapons by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that can only be understood as a bold threat of war by that agency, and the Obama administration, against the citizens of the United States of America,\u201d his letter began.<\/p>\n
The retired officer expressed deep concerns over \u201crecent purchases of almost 3,000 mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) armored personnel carriers, 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition (with associated weapons), and other weapons systems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Capt. Hestilow added a statement that Barack Obama made during his 2008 campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we\u2019ve set. We\u2019ve gotta (sic) have a civilian national security force that\u2019s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded [as the United States military],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also accused the administration of \u201cdeliberately defunding, overextending, and hollowing the Department of Defense,\u201d which he said is the \u201conly legitimate agency\u201d with the mission of conducting combat operations.<\/p>\n
In his letter, Capt. Hestilow called on Congress to demand that the DHS surrender their weapons systems to the Defense Department. He also accused the DHS of enforcing the \u201ctyrannical acts of this president\u201d and said lawmakers should dissolve the agency \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne needs only to look to the rise of Adolf Hitler, and his associated DHS organizations, the SA and the SS, of 1932-1934, to see the outcome of allowing an agency of government this kind of control over the free citizens of a nation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Capt. Hestilow said that Americans cannot \u201cbe so na\u00efve\u201d as to think that what happened in Germany cannot happen here.<\/p>\n