
The Department of Homeland Security's recent acquisitions of nearly two billion  rounds of ammunition, 7,000 assault weapons and 2,700 mine-resistant, ambush  protected vehicles constitutes a "bold threat of war" against American citizens,  according to a retired U.S. Army captain who has growing concerns about the  purchases.
"It 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," Terry M. Hestilow, an Afghanistan veteran, wrote in a letter posted on his Facebook page he says  he sent recently to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Referring to the ominous purchases - which DHS officials have attempted to downplay, Hestilow labeled them "a tyrannical  threat against the Constitution" and a deliberate attempt to defund the  Department of Defense.
Remember - Obama himself brought up the concept  of a 'powerful civilian national security force'
The decorated vet  asked Cornyn to honor his oath of office to his constituents and the  Constitution to "demand in clear terms that the Administration cannot ignore,  that the Department of Homeland Security immediately surrender their newly  appropriated weapons of war to the Department of Defense..."
"Significant  is the fact that at the same time the Obama administration is arming his DHS for war within the limits of  the United States against the People of the United States in accordance with his  2008 campaign speech claiming," as candidate Barack Obama in 2008
We  cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national  security objectives that we've set. We've gotta (sic) have a civilian national  security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded [as  the United States military]...
"Further," he writes, "since the DHS  has assumed a position in the Administration to enforce the tyrannical acts of  this president against the People of the United States against the limits of the  United States Constitution, it remains for the United States Congress to  exercise its limiting power in the balancing of powers established by our  founding fathers, to disestablish and dissolve the DHS as soon as  possible."
Hestilow called the DHS purchases a "glaring threat of war against our nation's  citizens," and actions he says "can only be understood as a tyrannical threat  against the Constitution of the United States of America."
If the  situation is not resolved, Hestilow wrote to Cornyn, "the peace loving citizens  who have sworn to defend the United States Constitution 'against all enemies,  both foreign and domestic' are left no option except to prepare to defend  themselves, and the U.S. Constitution, against this Administration's 'coup'  against the People and the foundations of liberty fought for and defended for  the past 238 years. We have no choice if we honor our oaths."
Others  are also seeking answers
As his motivation for writing, Hestilow  cites the rise of Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler in the early 1930s.
"One  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," he wrote. "The people of Germany could not  have imagined, until it was too late, the danger of allowing a tyrant this kind  of power. We must not be so naive as to think it will not happen to us as well  if we remain passive toward this power grab by the Marxist Obama  administration!"
Hestilow's letter comes amid news of a brand-new request  by DHS for an additional 360,000 rounds of .40 caliber hollow point ammunition,  bringing the huge department's recent orders more than two billion  rounds, to be supplied over the next four-five years.
Hestilow is not  the only one seeking answers.
"The extraordinary level of ammunition  purchases made by Homeland Security seems to have, in states such as my own,  created an extreme shortage of ammunition to the point where many gun owners are  unable to purchase any," Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., and 15 other lawmakers wrote in a separate letter, asking DHS why the department is  filing purchase requests for so much ammo so quickly.