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War Gear Flows to Police Departments
The New York Times ^ | June 8, 2014 | MATT APUZZO

Posted on 06/09/2014 10:53:58 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city, parked next to the hefty orange snowplow, sits an even larger truck, this one painted in desert khaki. Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small.

The 9-foot-tall armored truck was intended for an overseas battlefield. But as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; cops; donutwatch; jbt; leos; militarization; militarized
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To: Timber Rattler

And what happens when all of the local municipalities get these shiney new, big boy toys?

Well, they look for the smallest damn excuse to take them out to play!

Coming to an unwarrented home invasion near you!

(your neighbor didn’t like you throwing his dog’s poop back into his yard.....)


21 posted on 06/09/2014 11:34:19 AM PDT by G Larry (Which of Obama's policies do you think I'd support if he were white?)
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To: Paul46360

I see no reason for police departments to have armored combat vehicles. The excuses the mayor gave were lame because the cities can get non-armored military surplus vehicles just as easily as the MRAPs.


22 posted on 06/09/2014 11:44:45 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: INVAR

I believe you’re right, but I’ve been saying this for years.


23 posted on 06/09/2014 11:48:10 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: relictele

The will give weak excuses that the vehicles could be used on snow plow duty and for fighting wildfires offroad. The truth is that the police and fire departments can get unarmored trucks just as easily.


24 posted on 06/09/2014 11:49:27 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

I take it then that the MRAP uses air pressure to release the brakes like commercial vehicles.


25 posted on 06/09/2014 11:50:38 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Paul46360

A silver lining: The people in those small towns know exactly where those who would occupy said vehicles live. Get in one to unconstitutionally suppress the populace and you probably won’t live 48 hours after getting out again. (And while you’re out oppressing, who is watching your family?) This is why I still have hope that most local LE will walk off the job with their equipment if the wrong orders are ever given. At some point it just makes more sense to let a tyrant swing without you.


26 posted on 06/09/2014 11:51:18 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: Bulwyf

grenade launchers and machine guns for the local police?
What could go wrong with that?

Problem with crowd control?
Protesters?
Disrespectful citizens?
Barking dogs?

Problem no more. /s


27 posted on 06/09/2014 11:53:06 AM PDT by OldArmy52 (The question is not whether Obama ever lies, but whether he ever tells the truth.)
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To: null and void
ping
28 posted on 06/09/2014 11:53:26 AM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: OldArmy52

Nobody will short you on the ketchup in the drive-thru lane AGAIN !


29 posted on 06/09/2014 11:57:41 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Timber Rattler

The government is literally freeing mass murdering terrorist while turning their attention towards Americans at home.


30 posted on 06/09/2014 12:15:22 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Timber Rattler

Speaking of MRAPs, there’s a false flag going down outside of L.A., CALIF as we speak. Will an MRAP barge in and save the day??? Drum roll please..


31 posted on 06/09/2014 12:21:54 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Timber Rattler

My Uncle, God Bless his soul, once said:

“You asked me where the DHS was storing all of the equipment they were acquiring for use against the citizens of the United States if a Civil War was to occur? Just look at the local Police department and the other local Federal agencies. They’re emplacing them one or two at a time in plain sight.”

The key he then added was this: “Now what I want to know is where all of that ammunition is being stored at.”

He was a good man... and I miss him.


32 posted on 06/09/2014 12:31:45 PM PDT by The Working Man
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To: Timber Rattler

martial law is not far off.


33 posted on 06/09/2014 12:33:55 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: GeronL

Once upon a time, civilians could open up their bank accounts and get the latest howitzer and grape-shot that money could buy. And for awhile, civilians were armed “better” than our military (Think the old west with the Winchester repeaters and Henry’s out there).


34 posted on 06/09/2014 12:38:12 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: muir_redwoods

Yup, you got it.


35 posted on 06/09/2014 12:59:17 PM PDT by jmacusa
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Please post more details about what’s going on outside of Los Angeles.


36 posted on 06/09/2014 1:24:28 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I don't want to feel "safe." I want to feel FREE!)
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To: Paul46360

Don’t you just love this little gem from the NY Slimes article.....

“In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protest against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.”

“You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.’s and to defeat law enforcement techniques, Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan Co. Sheriff’s Dept. told the local Fox affiliate. Sergeant Downing did not return a message seeking comment.”

Of course he didn’t return the reporter’s message, the coward. What an insulting thing to say about our returning vets.


37 posted on 06/09/2014 1:30:17 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (I don't want to feel "safe." I want to feel FREE!)
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To: Timber Rattler

Yes, it is.


38 posted on 06/09/2014 2:01:04 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Timber Rattler

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

— Candidate B. Hussein Obama, 2008


39 posted on 06/09/2014 2:02:52 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

That is as it should be.

I would not mind our military becoming much much smaller in peacetime except for the forces responsible for the technical stuff like jets, satellites, missiles and stuff.

I think the era of massive standing armies is crazy


40 posted on 06/09/2014 2:18:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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