Obama Flooding U.S. Streets With “Weapons of War” for Local Police

The New American ^ | December 2, 2014 | Alex Newman

[RC one]

sure glad we scrapped the F22 Raptor program so we could buy more MRAPs.

[txnativegop]

give local cops this kind of tech and you can kiss the constitution good-bye. the cops will goes nuts, not just the federal gov’t.

This is very bad, very bad indeed.

[Squantos]

So are the CHICOM’s.....

[alloysteel]

This is kind of schizophrenic.

Give the police departments all this hi-tech stuff, then excoriate them when they go about the business of enforcing the law.

Or are the police forces throughout the nation supposed to go into the business of suppressing law everywhere in the territory once known as “the United States of America”?

Some kind of demented logic is going on.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Well Hell's Bells! They gotta ifnd a way around Posse Comitatus since it won't let them use the military against "WE the People ..." but the cops aren't the military, are they?

I mean, think back to Waco. Someone tell me the difference between the US Military on the one hand and the FBI using Military plans drawn up by the Delta team, military uniforms, military weapons, military acp's, military tanks, military weapons and ammo, military flash-bangs and more.

Are they then FBI or Military or just using weasel words to call themselves FBI still even though trained and equipped by the military?

Think on it.

[txnativegop]

It could just be my personal experiences, the only cops I have ever known became cops because they wanted the power that comes with the badge and gun.

Americans are not permitted to own anything that can stop a vehicle like this. This is military hardware, something that police are NOT supposed to have EVER.

It may be demented, but it is logical just like the NAZIs of old.

[HarleyLady27]

IMHO: after what Di-Fi did to everyone, I think they’ll need everything they can to protect themselves and that includes YOU and ME!

[baddog 219]

[Chode]

[txnativegop]

since the vehicle is buttoned-up; all that accomplished was to make them sweat a little.

[RC one]

I think a Barret M82A1 would do a number on an MRAP and the fact is, they have to come out of their vehicles at some point. They’re psychologically intimidating but they would be of limited value in a full on war between the police and large numbers of armed white Americans.

[txnativegop]

how of those have been made?

a couple of thousand and with ammo that costs $9 a round.

Undoubtedly it probably would defeat the armor.

Scarier thought: a Ma Deuce on top set for remote firing with the explosive Mk 211 ammo?

[SatinDoll]

Hmm...the police in my area are good guys. They do not like the idea of abolishing the second amendment at all.

I have not seen the police getting military type vehicles here in southwest WA state.

[Chode]

unless any of it gets into the engine bay and onto belts, hoses, wiring etc

[txnativegop]

which is possible, but not likely.

[Chode]

it's better than doing nothing...

[txnativegop]

so it is, but not very effective and will have a high casualty rate along with it.

[OneWingedShark]

CWII Spark Ping — txnativegop: “Give local cops this kind of tech and you can kiss the Constitution good-bye. The cops will goes nuts, not just the federal gov’t.”

[Chode]

when the day comes, it won't be pretty, and there will be no quarter