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PA Bill Number: HB2206

Title: In school safety and security, providing for purchase of firearm detection technology.

Description: In school safety and security, providing for purchase of firearm detection technology. ...

Last Action: Referred to Education

Last Action Date: Feb 9, 2026

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The Department Of Education's S.W.A.T. Team :: 06/23/2011

First, before we look at this bizarre and very troubling story that has already gone viral on the Internet, we need to raise a question that everyone else appears to be ignoring. Since when does the US Department of Education have a SWAT team at their disposal? Official answer: they borrowed it from the Inspector General. Okay.

  • Now, let's rephrase the question.

Since when does the US Department of Education's Inspector General have a SWAT team at its disposal?

  • The short answer?

Since the enactment of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. President Jimmy Carter and a social progressive Democratic Congress created the Department of Education with Public Law 96-88 on Oct. 17, 1979, and George W. Bush and a Republican Congress armed them in 2002 with an extension of the Patriot Act in what can only be described as the silent creation of the Bully State. And, finally-why?

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