Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile

Gateway Pundit ^ | March 3, 2013 | Jim Hoft

[2ndDivisionVet]

This is getting a little creepy.

According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm.

DHS also purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP).

Modern Survival Blog reported:

The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.

Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late, I decided to dig slightly deeper and discover more about the vehicle itself.

The new DHS sanctioned ‘Street Sweeper’ (my own slang due to the gun ports) is built by Navistar Defense (NavistarDefense.com), a division within the Navistar organization...

[WalterSkinner]

..my question is who are they going to man this DHS army with?

Surely they won't wait for the FEMA youth to grow up.

Will they draw from FEMA ICE SS BT or will they add another division under the radar--interesting times...

[Defiant]

Why on earth would the left rise up? They are in charge. The loony left is running the country, even though it is a small portion of the populace. It has convinced the liberals and the morons in the middle that they are just liberal, not Hugo Chavez in drag. Only the right sees this regime for what it is. I see zero chance of a leftist insurrection, and it would be tiny if it did occur. It would look like a G7 riot, or an OWS rally, a few hundred idiots.

[Bender2]

Re: Lets see. 2,717 vehicles / 50 states = 54.34 Light Armored Tanks per state.

Heck, here in Texas, our fishermen over 65... could take out 50 of those suckers--

And kids under 18 helping out with grilling steaks... would do away with the other 4.34!

[Old Sarge]

These. Are. Not. Tanks!

[null and void]

Looks like they expect Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and other large cities ... to go up in smoke soon?

Yes, in much the same way that John Wilkes Booth expected Lincoln to leave office soon!

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[null and void]

Nice to have around when the EBT cards bounce

I'm predicting that the July 1st EBT recharge will not happen.

They want a "long hot summer" and they want to co-opt the 4th of July.

[CodeToad]

One of the things we might want to change is the use of the term ‘wannabees’ as many, if not most, LEOs SWAT teams are prior specops. Many LEO orgs practically mandate that.

[Nachum]

The list, Ping

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[Nachum]

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

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[Las Vegas Ron]

What I don’t get is that the DHS does not have a branch called “Homeland Security”.

DHS = Department of Homeland Security

[null and void]

You. Are. Velkom!

[riri]

Are we headed for a violent takeover?

The takeover already happened.

The armaments are for any organized resistance. Americans.

[carriage_hill]

“Special Response Team” sounds pretty ominous, to me.

[FreeAtlanta]

That is what I am expecting. When the ebt cards fail, the urban centers that depend on gov for everything will riot and explode. Unless their intent is to use them to confiscate food from farms, they will be fuuly deployed in the ghettos and barrios.

[philman_36]

Q6: How should the American Flag patch be worn?

(http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/FAQs/faqs.aspx)

• The U.S. Code states "no part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations. The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing. Therefore, the lapel flag pin being a replica should be worn on the left lapel near the heart."
• The U.S. Code does not address the positioning of the flag patch. It is appropriate to wear an American flag patch on the left or right sleeve. When worn on the left sleeve, the union would appear towards the front and the stripes would run horizontally toward the back. When worn on the right sleeve, it is considered proper to reverse the design so that the union is at the observer’s right to suggest that the flag is flying in the breeze as the wearer moves forward.
• Since the law does not specifically address the positioning of the patch, a decision is left to the discretion of the organization prescribing the wear. As many states and cities have ordinances pertaining to the use of the flag, you may wish to contact the Attorney General of your state or the City Attorney’s office regarding this matter.

It's considered the same for vehicles. Right and left sides are inverse so that the "moving forward" impression is always present.

[Las Vegas Ron]

CWII Ping!

[philman_36]

US Army Uniform Regulation AR 670-1 Nov 1981

[GregNH]

Thanks!

[redgolum]

There is real fear on the left that there will be cuts to entitlements (there will be, the only question is if they will be planned). And then there is those on the left who feel that Obama isn’t moving fast enough.

But the real reason is that the State is very scared of the people right now.

[null and void]

As well they should be. Always.

[philman_36]

My pleasure.

Also here...28-18. Wear of full-color U.S. flag cloth replica
Figure 28-135 and 136

[Skepolitic]

It says “Homeland Security”, not National Guard.

[GOYAKLA]

These vehicles remind me of turtles(designed for protection of what’s inside).
That also brings to mind the photo of a fence-post turtle. sorry but I do not have a copy.
I’m also positive that out there in Redneck land there are some that can and will design a V8 powered vehicle to attack and upset one of those monstrosities. An attack from the side by a wedged shape vehicle that could turn it on it’s side would do wonders.
My thoughts go back to the TV show, “Robot Wars”(?).

[tacticalogic]

Wonder how it would fare against a D8 Cat?

[hummingbird]

"Looks like barry’s private army is getting equipped to seal the takeover."

Looks like the kind of "flexibility" he said he would have after his election.

He sent a message to Putin that he would have more "flexibility" during his second term - whatever that meant.

Well, he seems to have all kinds of flexibility re: tanks, weapons, bullets now. Maybe for Homeland Security or to send to Egypt when that country falls apart.

[Skepolitic]

The funny thing is that the guys who wrote those lyrics were out and about to protest Bush, and are silent now that Obama is out doing Bush in something happening here that ain’t exactly clear.

[GOYAKLA]

I have seen Cats with buckets that had slip on bars on bottom of buckets that were used to carry large pipe(concrete or metal).
A D8 would make believes out of those inside.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpxeWQ_XJw

[Jane Long]

Not to mention that Robert Retch has now accused the Tea Party of wanting to “undermine” the government.

[RedMonqey]

For Big Boom, try “AN/FO” (for ammonium nitrate/fuel
Crack them open like Walnuts...

[Old Sarge]

:ba-dump-kssshhh:

[null and void]

Nixon. The song is older than you think.

[Defiant]

I have no doubt that Obama will orchestrate riots in the streets if there are ever any cuts to entitlements, even small ones. But there is no way he will send out troops to stop it. He will revel in it.

[Army Air Corps]

In the last two years there have been a couple of news reports of IEDs discovered in the Rio Grande valley area.

[Nifster]

it gets more and more dangerous

[Pappy Smear]

Theo says, "It looks like they are bringing in an AR V" (Die Hard reference for those of you that have sworn off Hollywood since 1987)

[RedMonqey]

The funny thing is that the guys who wrote those lyrics were out and about to protest Bush

Not sure if you meant it but "For What It's Worth" is a song written in 1966 by Stephen Stills, (and performed by Buffalo Springfield) who is a hard lefty from the sixties and wrote this song in regards of the what was happening then.

No doubt this retread from that era would be against whatever Bush did.

Just to clear it up for the younger Freepers here...

[RedMonqey]

.Nixon. The song is older than you think.

Johnson actually.

Although they played it with a lot more rigor when "Tricky Dick" got elected...

[DCBryan1]

No one has mentioned that they are impervious to small arms fire (up to .50BMG) on the sides and front.

That's a shame, because I know my black tip .30-06 will go right through the top and rear. ....these wheeled APCs wouldn't last 72 hours in urban combat with determined veterans with a bolt action M1903 with black tip .30-06.

Also, my Husqvarna chainsaw would create an abatis in which they would have to dismount in order to regain mobility...all the while the "young uns" pick off the crew as they scramble from the flames and ammonia.

.....just sayin'....

[DCBryan1]

No one has mentioned that they are impervious to small arms fire (up to .50BMG) on the sides and front.

That's a shame, because I know my black tip .30-06 will go right through the top and rear. ....these wheeled APCs wouldn't last 72 hours in urban combat with determined veterans with a bolt action M1903 with black tip .30-06.

Also, my Husqvarna chainsaw would create an abatis in which they would have to dismount in order to regain mobility...all the while the "young uns" pick off the crew as they scramble from the flames and ammonia.

.....just sayin'....

[ansel12]

Law enforcement was a problem then as well.

[onyx]

BTTT

[onyx]

What is happening here?

I don't think those tanks are headed to Chicago, do you?

[ansel12]

When that song came out, the government had already become what it is today.

Some people are late to the party and think that it is something that just sprang up in the last 20 years or so.

They don’t seem to remember or know that combat troops were forcing the new way of life of one mind, one authority, onto the people back in the 1950s and 1960s.

People have a vague recollection that suddenly Americans lost control of their own lives and communities, but it doesn’t occur to them that the force and violence, intelligence gathering, and widespread use of double agents, spies, and informants that it took to reshape the people was brutal and widespread, and it never ended.

[nascarnation]

I'm predicting that the July 1st EBT recharge will not happen.

' Why? As long as the govt can electronically manufacture Baraqqi/Bernanke/Lew minibucks, why would they stop? Only the markets will determine that point and I'd wager it's still a few years off.

[LucyT]

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. . . . Ping, TM too. Check out article, also link at # 17.

On September 13, 2012, the Dept of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps youth, aka the Homeland Youth.

October 7, 2012. Vicksburg:

The federal government calls them FEMA Corps. But they conjure up memories of the ... 1930's Germany. Regardless of their name, Obama's Dept of Homeland Security has just graduated its first class of 231 Homeland Youth. Kids, aged 18-24 and recruited from the resident's AmeriCorp volunteers, they represent the first wave of DHS's Youth Corps, designed specifically to create a full time, paid, standing army of FEMA Youth across the country.

Read more at link shown in # 17.

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[KC_Lion]

That is why we have all the Hubbub about Pre-K education, to get the kids in the indoctrination centers soon, where they punish you if you eat your Pop Tart the incorrect way and it ends up looking like a Verboten Gun.

Fuhrer, We Belong to you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ke8_bhZW4

Skip to 3:10 to learn about how the Kids were suppose to rat out their parents to the Gestapo.

Turning the Kiddies into what they want.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdqaZNfs1mk

[LucyT]

[nascarnation]

These things get awful fuel economy and tire life (because of the weight).

It’s gonna cost us a fortune to keep these things going as the boys use these things to commute to the donut shop.

[null and void]

You are, of course, correct.

Thanks!