Law enforcement across the country is being militarized at an alarming rate, with the Obama admin bringing in machines of war to American cities through a Defense Department program that donates excess vehicles originally made for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
For example, the city of Washington, Iowa, with a population of only 7,000, will receive their own MRAP (Mine Resistance Ambush Protected), as reported by The Daily Iowan.
Their excuse is, of course, that it’s needed for school shootings and terrorists.
Got bullets? The 2nd American Revolution is coming soon…
Sometimes the news is just so drearily awful that you have to sit back and almost appreciate the pure comedy induced by it.
Take this item from Washington, Iowa, where the local police have recently acquired an MRAP vehicle (short for Mine Resistance Ambush Protected) through a Defense Department program that donates excess vehicles originally produced for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to local police departments across the United States, including other Iowa towns such as Mason City and Storm Lake.
The MRAP weighs an impressive 49,000 pounds, stands 10-feet tall, and possesses a whopping six-wheel drive. Originally designed to resist landmines and IEDs, it sure seems like the MRAP will come in handy for the notorious war zone otherwise known as Washington County, Iowa.
If you’re having a bad day, I highly recommend watching a video produced by the Des Moines Register in which Washington police officials try to justify the possession of a vehicle it clearly has no use for. The excuses range from school shootings (which are an actual concern but an MRAP seems like overkill) to a terrorist attack happening in central Iowa (because if there’s any place that seems ripe for a high-profile terrorist attack it’s Washington, Iowa, population 7,000).
I mean if the police were realistic, they could come up with actual reasons to use their MRAP/machine of doom. Drunken high-school house parties could be broken up by ramming the MRAP into the side of the building. Clearly, people who have been trying to curtail underage drinking have not seriously considered the serious deterrents to slamming down a few Hamms in your parents’ house caused by a soulless war machine demolishing your kitchen.
In all seriousness however (and it is hard to be serious about a situation so absurd) this little anecdote does highlight several disturbing trends in the American cultural landscape. Most blatantly, the collective paranoia that’s gripped post-9/11 America so tightly that small-town Iowa police officers are convinced that, any minute, the whole state could become engulfed in some Red Dawn-style conflict that would require the use of a device such as the MRAP.
But, a little more subtly, this incident reflects the out-of-control militarization of the police that’s been occurring across small towns and big cities from Los Angeles to Waterville, Maine.
As Radley Balko, the author of the book The Rise of the Warrior Cop, an expose of the police militarization of the last decade, found, in 2006 alone the Pentagon, “distributed vehicles worth $15.4 million, aircraft worth $8.9 million, boats worth $6.7 million, weapons worth $1 million and “other” items worth $110.6 million to local police agencies.”
SAVE AMERICA,THE TRATOR OBAMA needs to be stopped right now! “SCREW OBAMA”,“SCREW HILLARY CLINTON!”. The Butchers of Benghazi and the butcher of the CONSTITUTION should be in Jail !!!!
How much will it cost this small town to keep and operate this machine not needed. Sale it foe junk and use the money to serve the people.
Unless the voting is rigged once again he will not win. Where will he live.
he cant run again rob
‘POLITICS HAS DONE MORE HARM TO OUR LIVES AND OUR WORLD THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD…
POLITICS (Poli=Many…Tics=Bloodsuckers) Has Destroyed Our World and Lives More Than Anything Else…It is that ‘Absolute Power Corrupting, Absolutely!”
We the People Now Have The Technology and the Plan that We Have Never Had Before…
Now It Is Up to US, to Destroy POLITICS and Start Rebuilding Our World and Our Lives…Of, By and finally For the People…
Here is the Community By Community Plan for America and the World…
Please give it just 5 minutes of your time..thank you!
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And this is why all of our military personnel are out of the country. To many will stand with the people. And if they try to return they will be shot down. It is about to happen. Hope you are prepared
That has to be stopped.
BULL$#%&!@*
This is making up to be a terrible situation.
BS, morons in government need to grow up, if push comes to shove we will fight back