Don't Look Now- I think we are being Watched

THE FEDERAL POLICE

In Washington, DC now one can observe white police cars on the streets, violating usual DC traffic rules/laws parking anywhere they like and moving through red lights or whatever traffic they want to, which are not DC police cars. These are Federal Protection Service (FPS) POLICE cars. It is a whole buffed Federal Police Force which was first established innocuously enough just to protect Federal Buildings but has been hugely expanded under Bush to be under HOMELAND SECURITY. On the back of these police cars is a telephone number one can call if one sees a National Security threat.
We have now a National Federal Police Force with enormous executive discretionary power and an ambigious mandate. That should cause you to ask certain questions ---who is in real control of these people and exactly which laws are they enforcing? Is Chertoff or Gonzales running a Police Department or Army? Are they bound by State laws with regard to probable cause? Can you imagine what could be used or misused with such an authority? Be afraid- be very afraid.

I will tell you what they are not doing- they aren't in New Orleans where instead we sent the National Guard to protect against anarchistic crime.

These guys (gals?) come with full riot gear, hard helmets, shot guns, metal tipped boots and look like they are minutes away from goosestepping.

This is what has been written about the rather secretive FPS:
"The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is a branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and is responsible for the security of over 8,800 Federal buildings, facilities, properties and other federal assets. The FPS is primarily a uniformed force of 2000 police officers which provides security police services to U.S. Federal buildings and other properties administered by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It also protects other properties as authorized.
Its personnel have full police powers on and off of Federal property. It also maintains a small force of plainclothes detectives called special agents to investigate crimes occurring on federal properties and conducts counter-intelligence investigations as needed. One of the FPS's tasks is the supervision of the approximately 10,000 contract security guards assigned to protect Federal buildings. It also conducts background checks on contract workers in federal buildings.
The FPS was established by act of Congress on 11 January 1971 as part of the Public Buildings Service of the General Services Administration. It traces its history to six watchmen hired by Congress in 1790 to protect the buildings and properties of the seat of government, to include those of the President, the Congress and other public offices.
In accordance with the Homeland Security Act of 2002, in 2003 the FPS became part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its head was retitled from Assistant Commissioner to Director. The Director also serves as the chairman of the Federal Interagency Security Committee which is concerned with the physical security of all federal facilities."

Anyone who knows anything about this deployment ready Federal Police Force is encouraged to write here in the comments section. We clearly don't know enough about this Federal Police Force and it is looking really ominous.