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.
we know they plan on useing them against us
IS IT FIRE PROOF ? WATER PROOF? OIL PROOF ? ELECTRICITY PROOF ? GAS PROOF ? WILL IT RUN WITHOUT THE WHEELS ? DOES IT COME EQUIPPED WITH AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF SCUBA GEAR ? IS IT CRANE PROOF? IF YOU DROP IT FROM A HIGH PLACE WILL IT BOUNCE ? IF YOU FLIP IT UPSIDE DOWN WILL IT RIGHT IT’S SELF ?….JUST WONDERING.
The main thing is we band together against this force …Together we stand , divided we fall!!!!!
In Lancaster County, PA, our Special Emergency Response Team uses one for hostage and other potential shooter situations, I don’t have a problem with this. I’m sure it can be abused, but I’m thankful for ours. I am not involved with law enforcement, just a citizen. Our law enforcement agencies here have been excellent, unlike some I read about elsewhere in the country.
What are these lovers so afraid of
Things that make you say hmmmmmm!
Been saying this all along. Our police departments are being radicalized against the citizens and given military training and equipment. And you are correct, they will be used against us when the $#%&!@* hits the fan.
If you aren’t a Socialist, Communist, Liberal Progressive, you may be on there “Paper Route”.
They still have to get out of them. There’s only one exit.
DALLAS COUNTY. ALL THE DUMB DECISIONS THERE.