Yes, that is what is especially troubling to me. If these vehicles were being distributed around the country to respond to some 9/11 terrorist act, but stayed in the back of the police garage until some dreadful act occurred, I would be much less resistant to these. But that isn't what is happening. It is human nature that when you get one of these hammers , the bar of what constitutes a nail will keep getting lower and lower.They will keep using them to justify having them.
I have posted these to references before, these two experiments are critical in understanding what will happen and the public's reaction.
Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment
The government is creating a gestapo/peasant class division, just as the Stanford prison experiment created a warden/prisoner division. People will act the parts, it is human nature to do so. This means that insteading of obtaining these MRAPs in order to fight terrorism, they are obtaining them in order to cause it. The only response a free people should have to these is to shut them down, as peacefully and quickly as possible.
“...the bar of what constitutes a nail will keep getting lower and lower.They will keep using them to justify having them.”
Desensitization of the masses. The media will do its job of demonizing ppl who speak about it publicly. The internet obama-bee workers will go full-tilt with their “I’m-sure-there’s-a-rational-explanation-You-must-be-a-Nutwing.” Meanwhile, the masses will get used to seeing them and will rationalize away their suspicions.
OR, we COULD just all be paranoid. If that’s the case, they are instigating and actively feeding the paranoia. Why?
I would submit that both of the scenarios above are essentially one and the same. Different methodology; same outcome.