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Posted on 08/18/2012 8:48:02 PM PDT by null and void
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) confirms that it is purchasing 174 thousand rounds of hollow point bullets to be delivered to 41 locations in major cities across the U.S. No one has yet said what the purpose of these purchases is, though we are led to believe that they will be used only in an emergency to counteract and control civil unrest. Those against whom the hollow point bullets are to be used — those causing the civil unrest — must be American citizens; since the SSA has never been used overseas to help foreign countries maintain control of their citizens.
What would be the target of these 174, 000 rounds of hollow point bullets? It can’t simply be to control demonstrators or rioters. Hollow point bullets are so lethal that the Geneva Convention does not allow their use on the battle field in time of war. Hollow point bullets don’t just stop or hurt people, they penetrate the body, spread out, fragment and cause maximum damage to the body’s organs. Death often follows.
Potentially each hollow nose bullet represents a dead American. If so, why would the U.S. government want the SSA to kill 174,000 of our citizens, even during a time of civil unrest? Or is the purpose to kill 174,000 of the nation’s military and replace them with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) special security forces, forces loyal to the Administration, not to the Constitution?
All my life I’ve handled firearms. When a young boy growing up on my father’s farm in Pennsylvania Dad’s first rule of firearms training was, “Never point a gun at someone, in fun or otherwise, unless you intend to shoot them. If you shoot someone, shoot to kill.” I’ve never forgotten his admonition. It stayed with me through my Boy Scout training, when I enlisted in the army as a Private to fight in the Korea War, during my days as a Ranger and Paratrooper and throughout my thirty-four year military career.
If this were only a one time order of ammunition, it could easily be dismissed. But there is a pattern here. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has ordered 46,000 rounds of hollow point ammunition. Notice that all of these purchases are for the lethal hollow nose bullets. These bullets are not being purchased and stored for squirrel or coyote hunting. This is serious ammunition manufactured to be used for serious purposes.
In the war in Iraq, our military forces expended approximately 70 million rounds per year. In March DHS ordered 750 million rounds of hollow point ammunition. It then turned around and ordered an additional 750 million rounds of miscellaneous bullets including some that are capable of penetrating walls. This is enough ammunition to empty five rounds into the body of every living American citizen. Is this something we and the Congress should be concerned about? What’s the plan that requires so many dead Americans, even during times of civil unrest? Has Congress and the Administration vetted the plan in public.
I fear that Congress won’t take these ammunition purchases seriously until they are all led from Capitol Hill in handcuffs. Why buy all this ammunition unless you plan to use it. Unknown to Congress, Does DHS plan to declare war on some country? Shouldn’t Congress hold hearings on why the Administration is stockpiling this ammunition all across the nation? How will it be used; what are the Administration’s plans?
Obama is a deadly serious, persistent man. Once he focuses on an object, he pursues it to the end. What is his focus here? All of these rounds of ammunition can only be used to kill American citizens, though there is enough ammunition being ordered to kill, in addition to every American citizen, also every Iranian, Syrian or Mexican. There is simply too much of it. And this much ammunition can’t be just for training, there aren’t that many weapons and “shooters” in the U.S. to fire it. Perhaps it is to be used to arm illegal immigrants?
We have enough military forces to maintain law and order in the U.S. even during times of civil unrest.
We have local police, backed up by each state’s National Guard, backed up by the Department of Defense. So in addition to all these forces why does DHS need its own private army? Why do the SSA, NOAA and other government agencies need to create their own civilian security forces armed with hollow nose bullets?
Were I the JCS, and if I wasn’t already fully briefed on this matter, I’d stop the purchase of hollow point bullets, ask the secretary of Defense why all this ammunition is being purchased and spread around the country? If I got answers like the ones Congress got during the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious – I’d start tracking all ammunition deliveries nationwide to find out what organizations and units are using them, for what purpose and, if it is not constitutional, prepare to counteract whatever it is that they are doing.
This is a deadly serious business. I hope I’m wrong, but something smells rotten. And If the Congress isn’t going to do its duty and investigate this matter fully, the military will have to protect the Constitution, the nation, and our citizens.
Jerry Curry is a decorated combat veteran, Army Aviator, Paratrooper, and Ranger, who for nearly forty years has served his country both in the military and as a Presidential political appointee.
The Obama plan will most likely be a slow steady influx of a foreign force crossing our border and then drafted to become a personal army for Obama.
He does NOT trust any department from NOAA to the IRS, he will replace them all with his own Acorns.
When I go to the gun range and practice my shooting it is with the idea that it will better prepare me to shoot whitetail deer during November and December. What is a LEO preparing to hit when he or she goes to the range for target practice and qualifying? That time and those rounds are spent in preparation for shooting people. If my statement is "nonsensical" why do they often shoot silhouettes of people while I shoot silhouettes of deer?
So I guesss that they should not practice shooting at human forms, then? There are many justifiable shootings by law enforcement, and it is best they are trained to hit their target to lessen the chance of hitting bystanders. My point stands - the vast majority of LEO ammo goes to practice and qualifying.
If that’s the case generally, then the tinfoil hat scenarios become more real.
“I don’t know who or what will light the fuse, but it will be lit”
Sovereign bankruptcy is the what. Who will be the first to make Xerxes bleed? That is a very good question.
Based on the Bush I administration’s actions a Ruby Ridge, and the Clinton administration’s actions at Waco, I would not be surprised at another ‘demonstration of force’ a/k/a state terror in some red state or another in the near future. Regardless of who wins the election.
I got this in an email yesterday, but havn’t checked it for accuracy.
Marlin Firearms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlin_Firearms) has already closed it’s doors!
They are doing it to us, America! (We cannot rely on the media to inform us of these type of matters.)
SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT KNOW THAT IS HAPPENING...
Who is buying companies, manufacturing guns ????? For the last several years a company called The Freedom Group has been buying up gun and ammunition manufacturers. Some of the companies are Bushmaster, Marlin,Remington, DPMS, DakotaArms and H&R. Some people worry that this Freedom Group is going to control most of the firearms companies in the United States.
If you control the manufacturers you can decide “to stop selling to civilians”. What a perfect way to control guns. Now if you do some digging you will see that The Freedom Group is owned by a company called Cerberus Capital Management. Guess who controls Cerberus?? GEORGE SOROS!!!!
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who%C2%A0are_Cerberus_Capital_ManagementOwners
George Soros is one of the most evil men on this planet who wants to restrict or ban all civilian guns. If you don’t know who George Soros is, you need to do some Research. He backed Obama with millions of dollars. Please pass this onto all your freedom loving friends. This needs to come out. Why have we not heard about this in the”mainstream” media?
I would think this would be BIG news.
“Just more to be taken off of them when the time comes. Heck, we don’t even need to feel guilty about it. We paid for those rounds.”
You think like Mao in this particular regard. He may not have known jack about sane economies and society, but he was undeniably a master of guerrilla warfare and popular resistance. He once wrote: “Do not worry about lacking for weapons, ammunition and food. Your enemy* will bring these things to you.”
* The occupation Japanese army during WWII at the time of his writing.
I have dealt with the SSA a lot over the years. The thought of those people having guns is very scary!
I am not anti LEO and I realize that the overwhelming majority of LEO shootings are justified. I want them to continue to “practice and qualify.” That does not change what they are practicing and qualifying to do. Your original point was that my statement was as “nonsensical” as claims by the Brady campaign, which is ignorant. Not only does it not stand, it fails any test of logic you wish to apply.
There are white papers and police manuals from Homeland Security that point the finger at the American Public. I say it is the American Public.
“There are white papers and police manuals from Homeland Security that point the finger at the American Public. I say it is the American Public.”
Like Mein Kampf.
Take the authors’ communications as a serious effort to communicate what they intend and how they think. People may blink from the enormity of a problem, but that blinking does not diminish the problem one whit.
Whatever. If you wish to engage in hyperbole, that’s your business.
You have dirty bomb attacks in at least one possible multiple cities across the US resulting in the evacuation of the cities attacked and people panicking and fleeing cities that aren't attacked.
Completely overwhelm the govts ability to take care of the fleeing masses.
Straight out of the 1960’s KGB playbook. It's what the Ruskies planned with the Cuban missile crisis.
I find it amusing to be accused of egaging in hyperbole by the person who posted this:
That is as nonsensical as the Brady Campaign saying the only defensive use of a gun is to shoot someone with it.
They haven't taken the US Constitutional POTUS requirements seriously for 5 years now.
People want to think the best of others. They deny the growing power of Satan is our lives. Relative morality has been growing and mutating towards out right accepted crime. Lies are told as if they were truth. I hear people say that is just the way things are. Passive acceptance has become the normal reality. Americans have been conditioned to live if this crap.
A lot of pet dogs are going to die!
2000 rounds per person per year is a sensible guess.
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