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Beware Of The Police's Increasing Militarization
Investor's Business Daily ^ | September 30, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 09/30/2013 4:34:31 PM PDT by raptor22

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21 posted on 09/30/2013 5:00:54 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: AlexW
I do not know what started the craze, other then TV and movies.

It was caused by the "War on Drugs" which justifies any trampling on liberties because drugs are so bad and because "if I didn't do anything wrong, I have no reason to fear".

22 posted on 09/30/2013 5:07:14 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Workers and consumers are, of course, identical.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Protect and server - my aunt fannie -...

Now it's "We Treat You Like A King".

23 posted on 09/30/2013 5:11:07 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: raptor22

My county Sheriff has said he will not enforce any new un-Constitutional gun control laws state or FedMob. It might benefit me if his department gets itself trained and armed better.


24 posted on 09/30/2013 5:12:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Grampa Dave; granite; GreenFreeper; grjr21; I got the rope; IchBinEinBerliner; jaredt112; JayB; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


25 posted on 09/30/2013 5:13:38 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And they have billions of dollars worth coming back from Afghanistan.


26 posted on 09/30/2013 5:14:10 PM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Gen.Blather

sounds good to me.


27 posted on 09/30/2013 5:15:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

They DID NOT declare full martial law in Boston.

No house arrest anywhere either.

Where on earth do you get your facts?

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28 posted on 09/30/2013 5:16:03 PM PDT by Mears (Liberalism is the art ot being easily offended.)
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To: Gasshog
Even if the "farmers" weren't really farming, or were violating codes there was no need for an armed assault, and no need to take all that "evidence".

This reeks of intimidation to me, and the felt need to use unnecessary resources that would otherwise just be laying around doing nothing.

Geez Billy Bob we got ourselves a nice full auto machine gun from the Afghanistan war front. Maybe we can go find ourselves a "compound" to raid and shoot up some people.

29 posted on 09/30/2013 5:18:28 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Travis McGee

Maybe you should change your screen name to Matt DeNostradamus... More and more becomes public each day. And maybe, just maybe, it is starting to draw some attention...


30 posted on 09/30/2013 5:19:19 PM PDT by Raven6 (Psalm 144:1 and Proverbs 22:3)
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To: TigersEye

I had blackhawk helicopters flying low over my house this weekend. There were 15 of them within a couple of hours. The exercises are going on here. Thank God we ousted our gun hating mayor a few months ago. Bloomberg lost one of his members.


31 posted on 09/30/2013 5:22:43 PM PDT by postal patty
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To: Mears

Like many on FR, just make them up to support the rant at hand.


32 posted on 09/30/2013 5:24:15 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: BfloGuy

It was caused by the “War on Drugs” which justifies any trampling on liberties because drugs are so bad and because “if I didn’t do anything wrong, I have no reason to fear”.

NAILED IT!


33 posted on 09/30/2013 5:26:24 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Mears

They DID NOT declare full martial law in Boston.

No house arrest anywhere either.

Where on earth do you get your facts?

“Shelter in Place” is just a PC term for “Martial Law Curfew”


34 posted on 09/30/2013 5:27:05 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: TigersEye

My county Sheriff has said he will not enforce any new un-Constitutional gun control laws state or FedMob. It might benefit me if his department gets itself trained and armed better.

Help him create a Posse like Sheriff Joe has done.


35 posted on 09/30/2013 5:30:17 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Raven6; Travis McGee

Maybe you should change your screen name to Matt DeNostradamus... More and more becomes public each day. And maybe, just maybe, it is starting to draw some attention...

I second this!!!

Matt-stadamus!


36 posted on 09/30/2013 5:31:28 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: raptor22

The individual states need to act on this with a simple, two part law: The Police Demilitarization Law.

1) Municipal police departments in the state must have written state approval for all police, military, and paramilitary equipment they possess, store and use. This includes equipment from all sources, including privately owned equipment. This written approval can be rescinded at any time and will be decided on a case by case basis.

2) Equipment not authorized by the state will be turned over to the county Sheriff’s office for safekeeping, to be retained, used, sold or destroyed at the discretion of that Sheriff.


37 posted on 09/30/2013 5:35:10 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: raptor22

And a second state law, to officially changed the training curriculum at the state police academy to more literally follow the US constitution, despite federal laws and court rulings to the contrary.


38 posted on 09/30/2013 5:37:25 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: GraceG

With record setting fires in 2012 and record setting floods this year I think he has his hands full at the moment. And he has done a brilliant job of handling it all. I have a good deal of confidence in him to continue making good decisions.


39 posted on 09/30/2013 5:38:28 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Still Thinking; StopGlobalWhining; Straight Vermonter; Tampa Caver; TChris; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


40 posted on 09/30/2013 5:40:26 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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