Why the hell do our cities need armored military vehicles designed for the extreme combat situations of war?
More and more we see the militarization of our police force. This article in the Dallas Observer makes it sounds like these military vehicles are being deployed because there isn’t anything better to do with them and that they could be used to fight crime.
Of course, this is complete B.S. With government officials calling patriotic groups like the Tea Party ‘terrorists’, we can easily see where all of this is going.
The economy is headed for a complete collapse, and these will be used to quell uprisings of people who are calling the heads of the heads of state. It is self-protection on the part of our ‘servants’ in government and will be used for crowd control when all hell finally breaks loose.
Now that the war in Iraq is officially over and the one in Afghanistan winding down, the Department of Defense found itself facing a conundrum. It had just spent billions of dollars buying heavily armored personnel carriers designed to stand up to insurgent attacks only to find that it had run out of wars to use them in.
The initial plan was to shove the vehicles, called MRAPS (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) into a warehouse and let them collect dust. That changed when someone decided that, having served so admirably overseas, it would be only just to bring the MRAPs stateside and deploy them in the domestic war on crime.
block front and rear with some pick up trucks and it’s sardines in a can waiting to be fed upon.
and they have to get out to refuel them, don’t they ??
they are not fire proof.
A semi truck broadside on these vehicles will put it on its side, and immediately out of commission. Kinda like a turtle on it’s back.
We were to blind about Obama and they can’t see this either. Get locked n loaded my friend
They think they’re bulletproof tell me what a six inch cannonball will do to the side of that machine
Insurgency field manual
If they become the one we fight to take this country back, then there’s always a way to break through
Funny i actually saw first hand a vehicle like that used for criminal act ! Wilmington Del court house shooting these swat vehicles and heavily armed police came outside and shut a whole block down in no time at all. Was scary to see how well oiled they were
Is it fire proof? Check out what happened in Kiev when all of those molotov $#%&!@*tails went off on and around that military vehicle caught on camera. It didn’t take those guys long to bail out of that burning vehicle!!!