I was driving home from work yesterday and noticed a sign on the side of the road that said, “Police Training ahead”. There were 2 of those armored vehicles painted flat black and lots of guys with military style weapons and uniforms conducting some kind of training in the parking lot of what used to be a bank. I understand that the police need to train but this was in a relatively conspicuous area near a busy intersection. Why do it there at 3:00 in the afternoon during rush hour? Has anyone else ever seen a sign that reads, “Police Training ahead”. I haven’t; and I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. This is an odd thing to see especially in Vancouver (Orchards) Washington.
>> There were 2 of those armored vehicles painted flat black and lots of guys with military style weapons and uniforms
When the SHTF, remember to bring squirrels.
Visability is intimidation alone...Some people will take it as a positive in which they’ll exclaim, “LOOK!!! They are here to protect us!!! USA USA USA USA!!!”
For some it will be percieved that this is the new norm, and that when you see it again, it could be for real...For what, I have yet to see a justification for a public presense (like that) for any reason...
If the people manning these departments are full of combat veterans looking to re-kindle that “jazz” feeling they got when “outside the wire”...Those types of law enforcement we do not need on the streets, but somewhere, some people in your local governments think this will protect them and their jobs if they have forces like this that are just as good as the military...
At least on paper...
But for every example of when para-military law enforcement units like these are deployed, it is during a time when they government has lost control, and there is a convention of thought that somehow justifies their pre-planning to aquire equipment and personnel liike this to quell and subdue the easy populace...
Go back and look at how Boston handled their crisis...For two little twerps that quite a few agencies already had a line on in the first place...They just didn’t put all the dots together, and having the force to subdue an entire city in this country was more acceptable than applying preventative medicine to the sore...
How about how you cannot cop a squat in our nations capitol without garnering the attention of some geek-monkey monitoring a bank of camera feeds...But somehow a deranged mother suffering (how convienient) from PPD, who led that town on a short chase on those streets needed to killed by an increasingly violent tedeny driven police force...
The more you question the outcomes, the more it whittles away at the justification of such up-armored police forces in this country...
And we all wonder why the economy, and social condition of this country is in such disarray???
All it will take now is one serious incident and this entire country will come un-glued...
I would like to think we can handle that without reacting with a force like this who’s purpose is to not prevent, but to control the population...
And to do this at 3pm in rush hour traffic is to do so for only one reason...To desensitize you and many others to the fact that when it does blow up, you will not be allowed to do anything but follow orders, and if you refuse, you can be dealt with summarily...When they very well could be going after the “real” problem...
Interesting times we live in...
Very interesting. It reminds me of a radio station I listened to when in Seattle, who’s call letters I don’t remember. They had a little on air ditty for their station that broadcast their coverage, “from Vancouver to Vancouver”. Did a search for it but came up empty. That would have been around 1969.
> I was driving home from work yesterday and noticed a sign on the side of the road that said, “Police Training ahead”. There were 2 of those armored vehicles painted flat black and lots of guys with military style weapons and uniforms conducting some kind of training in the parking lot of what used to be a bank. I understand that the police need to train but this was in a relatively conspicuous area near a busy intersection. Why do it there at 3:00 in the afternoon during rush hour? Has anyone else ever seen a sign that reads, “Police Training ahead”. I haven’t; and I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. This is an odd thing to see especially in Vancouver (Orchards) Washington.
You probably already know the answer. It was probably a show of force to the public to create fear and a loss of hope in rising up against the might of the “state”. 0 loves to use psychological manipulation; its one of his allmarks (other than lying and deception). It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if he had issued a memo to police agencies across the nation to do this and supplied them with military grade firepower to showoff to the public create fear particularly in conservative regions.
My husband and I were going through a small town (practically middle-of-nowhere) in Western Pa last week. In front of us was a heavily armored vehicle on a flatbed truck. The front was facing us and it said “TerraDyne”. I got some cellphone pics of it. Really creepy looking vehicle.