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 Americas 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.
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They're just murdering, beating, robbing, and enslaving pot heads! Pot heads don't deserve constitutional rights.
Wait till they call you a pot head!
3 words and all your rights dissappear!
I smell merryjewanna! You are now a slave of the state!~
Yes, after all, the local criminals always mine the roads. /sarc
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