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How Congress Helped Create Ferguson’s Militarized Police
National Journal ^
| August 14th, 2014
| By Emma Roller
Posted on 08/14/2014 7:39:39 PM PDT by Mariner
August 14, 2014 Since 2006, the Pentagon has distributed 432 mine-resistant armored vehicles to local police departments. It has also doled out more than 400 other armored vehicles, 500 aircraft, and 93,000 machine guns.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ferguson; mikebrown
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To: Mariner
Interesting. My local news is reporting on this right now in Columbus OH. The sheriff of a local county just said that militarized equipment and armored vehicles were offered to them, virtually free, by the Department of Defense. They took them and with hardly any cost to the county. Why in the hell is the federal government supplying locals with this type of equipment?
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:08:20 PM PDT
by
Toespi
To: Mariner
I’m reading reports now since the non-camo wearing, non MG pointing state police have taken over, things are starting to quiet down a bit. Tacticool is way over done by police. Police shouldn’t have guns anymore. They don’t know what they’re doing. That’s the real sign of the times - the stupid.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:12:25 PM PDT
by
virgil
(The evil that men do lives after them)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sorry, just the existence of those benefits programs DID NOT create them. That was in their makeup as citizens and persons.
If anything made them the family environment and the schools created them. They actually with their actions have opted out of society and their wish should be granted to them.
All rabid wild animals should be removed. How ever it is possible it needs to be done 'cause it is necessary to maintain society.
It was/is their choice.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:13:30 PM PDT
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: VerySadAmerican
Unfortunately chances are the rioting will spread to other peaceful places.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:17:27 PM PDT
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: molson209
The current Obama admin would push for giving them statehood and diplomatic standing here and in the UN.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:17:32 PM PDT
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: Mariner
Here's a (recruitment?) video that is
reported to have been on the main page of the Doraville, GA police department website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kajhu7qgojU
Be sure to have your sound on. You don't want to miss the soundtrack.
Doraville has a population of 8,500.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:17:40 PM PDT
by
TChad
(The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Ok.but there are 93,000 machine guns out there. I don’t see the need for police to have them, that’s all.
I’ll bet they have more than what has been listed
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:18:34 PM PDT
by
reefdiver
(The fool says there is no God. And the bigger fools sees direct evidence and rages against it.)
To: JSteff
^Exactly; I’m on SSD right now and I’m not pulling an ounce of the stuff that they are. I’m building my own business and staying to my own routine. Frankly put, it’s nature.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:19:04 PM PDT
by
CorporateStepsister
(I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
To: VerySadAmerican
As the muslim brotherhood showed, the Obama admin would give them several billion $$$ and some F-16’s.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:19:56 PM PDT
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: Mariner; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; amchugh; ...
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:23:07 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Mariner
Just this evening I came upon, in the opposite lane, what looked like a very minor fender bender. The two civilian vehicles that had been involved in the incident were surrounded by county squad cars, blue lights flashing, and officers all over the place dressed as if they were about to take a spacewalk.
I kept driving, but felt very intimidated by the scene.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:30:38 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Mariner
the problem in ferguson is not the police
It’s black culture and the criminal underclass it creates in hundreds of cities and suburbs across America.
Jeez If you’re on the same side of this as Jesse and al then you F-ed up somewhere, big time. Think again dummy.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:33:26 PM PDT
by
Cubs Fan
(Orwell's writings were meant as warnings, but to the left they are instruction manuals.)
To: TChad
lol...that is frigging ridiculous.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:36:13 PM PDT
by
Girlene
(Hey NSA!)
To: Huskrrrr
What a silly statement. Explain that.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:36:51 PM PDT
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
Unfortunately, some police departments need serious hardware these days. 1. Is the average law-abiding citizen allowed to be armed with the same weapons?
2. If the answer is 'no', then who will enforce those laws against the law-abiding, and what 'hardware' will they use to enforce them?
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:43:41 PM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Ken H
Let’s get rid of all the cops and let jesse, Al, and the new black panther party protect us. That will go well.
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posted on
08/14/2014 8:51:25 PM PDT
by
Cubs Fan
(Orwell's writings were meant as warnings, but to the left they are instruction manuals.)
To: Mariner
The Federal Department of Civilian Control depends on overwhelming numbers and force. If three disobedience events happen at the same time, it will fall apart. As soon as the masses of underpaid welfare recipients learn this fact, they will apply the “pile on” tactic. It may already be happening, judging by the way the FDCC has been attacking the press.
To: Cubs Fan
RIte Awn..RIte Awn
Peace through T SHIRTS
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posted on
08/14/2014 9:01:43 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
08/14/2014 9:04:06 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
(ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
08/14/2014 9:07:47 PM PDT
by
Cubs Fan
(If you're on the same side of Ferguson as Al and Jesse, then you F-ed up, big time. Rethink it dummy)
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