[Obadiah]

From Dargan's web site:

I'm sure Dargan wants to see MUCH more of this.

[jughandle]

WTH is that thing for? Do we really want to know?

[lentulusgracchus]

Some thoughtful people -- some of them in LE -- have been expressing grave reservations for some time about the progressive black-kevlar militarization of state and local LE.

Federal emoluments to local LE is, IMHO, unconstitutional, as it is the province exclusively of the States (see the Ravalli County Supreme Court Case). Lyndon Johnson started it, which is your Good Housekeeping Seal of Unconstitutional, Crooked-As-a-Snake LBJ Crap. "Landslide Lynt'n" wanted to bribe every local government in America to do what he wanted.

[taildragger]

I'm sure Dargan wants to see MUCH more of this.

I am gonna catch some flack for this but here goes. All these vehicles are GWB's millstone.... Yes, after 9/11, tons of money funneled down to the state and local level where they now all have quasi-military vehicles etc. etc. etc.. Do you remember all the Senators ( Especially Levin ) screaming about GWB's wars bla bla bla... Well that all kinda quieted down when they started to dole out the money for these things and to the suppliers in the states that built them. We get the Goverment we deserve, turn on American Idle low information voters, everything is fine....