The latest machines of war to hit American streets are UH-72 Lakota helicopters and will be received by the Indiana National Guard, which will also be used by local law enforcement and DHS.
The chopper utilizes sophisticated sensor technology for “automatic target tracking”, which can “spot a weapon or read a license plate from a distance where the Lakota remains undetected,” according to a promotional video below.
The Dept. of Defense has been donating military machines and weapons brought in from our overseas wars to local law enforcement through the DOD 1033 program.
Police across the country become more militarized with each passing day.
“The Lakotas, manufactured by the Airbus Group, will also aid local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in case of an emergency,” reports the Indiana Daily Student, adding that the helicopters “will also aid in homeland security missions”.
The chopper is renowned for its “maneuverability and power” and also features sophisticated sensor technology used for “automatic target tracking” that can “spot a weapon or read a license plate from a distance where the Lakota remains undetected,” according to a promotional video for the helicopter.
The on board system can also transmit live video feed to a ground station up to 30 miles away while an individual can easily be followed via high power search lights linked up with the sensor system.
The chopper is normally used to pursue drug traffickers on the Mexican border as well as for search and rescue missions, but will now be utilized to keep tabs on residents of Indiana, which some will see as another sign of America’s increasing lurch towards a militarized police state.
Given that the Department of Homeland Security is now targeting groups named “Free Americans Against Socialist Tyranny” as part of its exercises, it’s unsurprising that many conservatives fear the federal government is paying an unhealthy amount of attention to people with certain political beliefs while some 68,000 convicted illegal immigrants are released each year.
As we have exhaustively documented on numerous occasions, federal authorities and particularly the Department of Homeland Security have been involved in producing a deluge of literature which portrays liberty lovers and small government advocates as extremist radicals, a chilling trend given the Lakota helicopter’s specialty at detecting guns from a distance.
The increasing use of military hardware in the field of domestic law enforcement has caused consternation amongst some who see the police’s role as changing from ‘protect and serve’ to treating the American people as some kind of enemy. Since the winding down of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Department of Defense has been donating armored vehicles to the Department of Homeland Security which in turn has been selling them to police departments across the country.
what purpose would there be to have these unless it’s to be used on us citizens?
no helicopter to secure our borders?
To be used in future martial law situations !!
they are getting ready
invasion of privacy…..
Tom Hauck the national guard has been federalized and has been for a while
Dear Obama and NATO: Why you do not make war on terrorism against Islamic Free Army in the East of Libya now? Why you are waiting till they invade Egypt, then you shall claim suddenly that Egypt became a terrorist country, that should be striken by US-NATO? Why are you sending all terrorist and jihadist militias of all kinds, nationalities and names, from all over the world to the East of Libya, at the West borders of Egypt? Why are you funiding, training, arming and leading these terrorist and jihadist assassins, by the hands of your officers? Why they are supplied with modern US-NATO weapons, and spying drones? Why are you sending them to African and Asian countries to kill Christians, then you send your troops to occupy these countries? Why are using chemtrails and HAARP, to create climate disasters in Egypt and Arab countries who support Egypt? Why are you planning for a destructive earthquake and to activate a volcano in the Delta o Egypt, soon? Why are you supporting Muslim Brotherhood, who are the trunk from which all terrorist and jihadist militias originated? Why are you planning to kill Elsisi, and why are you supporting Sabahi, who is a sleeping cell of Muslim Brotherhood, to become the next Egyptian President? Why are you threatening Dr Tawfik Okasha, who is known as the Egyptian Alex Jones, who owns the most popular TV channel, Faraeen, which exposed your conspiracy? Why are you planning to prevent Presidential Elections in Egypt by all means? And finally, why have you killed Chrsitopher Stevens in Benghazi by the hands of Al Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood? Why Muslim Brotherhood are blackmailing you? And why have you stolen secret documents from the US Embassy there? Because Christopher Stevens attempted to expose US-NATO creating the Islamic Free Army in Libya, to spread jihad? Yes, exactly!
IF I WERE INDIANA I WOULD REFUSE THEM IF THEY ARE FOR FIGHTING OUR OWN PEOPLE.
As a vet, we need to completely clean out DC and GOP and vote in REAL leaders who will help our country grow into the good strong nation it was back in the 40s and 50s. Today we just have trash in the GOP
And folks, remember how to stab that right arm into the air and loudly shout, “Seig Heil Mein Fuhrer!”