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.
someone forgot what homeland security is for.
It’s better for war machines to be spread throughout the country than centralized near Washington, though…the feds are always going to have them, and if it ever came to that, well, the cop shop isn’t exactly a military base.
He will soon hold all of America hostage his plan is to take America over with in .america is in the worst trouble ever we now have to stand on the promise of God .please pray for our nation we are in trouble .
And Obummer is taking all the Apache’s from the Air National Guards so they can’t defend us.
They are taking the fun out of life
The majority of the military will not defend this bum!
obummer doesn’t realize that not 100% of the active duty military will follow any order he issues to shoot to kill American civillians? They would rather transfer the military to the people and fight beside them to toss his sorry carcas out of the white house. That also goes for much of his alphabet agencies too. Is he keeps pushing he will instigate and set of the second revolution not the second coming!
Dont worry We The People will rise again Have Faith
this is just another nip taken from our liberties