Posted on 03/24/2013 9:06:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I wish the letter had been sent to Sen. Cruz. Cornyn wakes up on a different side of the fence daily.
I always ask the question: Why? Civil unrest requires MRAPs? Ever? I would argue that they are only useful if you are at war.
The interesting thing about the MRAPs...basically, they serve only to get you from point A to point B. They aren’t a tank or can be used to ram a wall or building. They burn a gallon of gas in just three to five miles. They require continued maintenance...so after five or six years...they are maintenance hogs for any organization that accepts them.
The flip-over rate? Unless you attend the driving class and grasp that you need to take street turns at less than twenty miles per hour....it’ll flip. Hit a curb at the right angle and turn it just slightly? It’ll flip then. So watch as cops and SWAT guys get into accidents and then ask for total disability for the seven guys in the vehicle, and the cost of running an operation with MRAPs go drastically upward.
Somebody in the MRAP chain paid out a ton of money to get their purchase approved. Follow the money on this one. Find the guy who stamped the approval paperwork, and watch his bank account.
Obviously they’re preparing for CWII, in which they will comprise one side.
And they're not FIREPROOF!
Cornyn wakes up on a different side of the fence daily.”
I agree. Somebody should write a letter to this retired Army officer.
I wondered how long Cornyn would follow Cruz around and it didn’t take long for him to return to the other side of the aisle. He was one of the 20 Senators who voted with the Democrats and continued to fund Obamacare. Even worse he was joined by McConnell.
When is the House going to turn off the money spigot???
America will never wake up in time. The Nazi like brown shirts have now been armed to the teeth. CWII will fail to return America and the DHS is the communists storm troopers that will have taken America.
Throw a bottle of bleach and a bottle of ammonia at an open window.
Look at the Irish troubles, and you see the use of mraps. Or at the Iraq war.
Since I’m from Alabama....where exactly in the state will I be expecting urban combat? (sarcasm included here)
The Bama-Auburn game?
Maybe it’s a perfect vehicle for DC, Philly, Chicago or Dallas. Beyond that....this is pretty questionable spending to me.
What’s to stop them from shooting you before you get close enough to throw the bottles?
Regarding the perceived requirement for MRAPs within the United States for use against it’s citizen civilians, the administration and the DHS may be presuming that the American public / defenders of the US Constitution are and will be at least as innovative and persistent as those creating and fielding IEDs in Iraq and other global locations.
So, I guess that you are correct. We would be at war.....
I still cannot believe this didn't send people screaming to the polls to vote against this punk. Talk about yer red flags.
Thank you for the post 2ndD....
If they can successfully create violent civil unrest/riots forcing the states governors to use the national guard, then make it appear as if some violent militant group has teamed up with foreign terrorist, the governors will no longer have control the fed govt takes control because it will in fact be an act of war.
That’s where the Weather Underground screwed up, they used domestic terrorist instead of foreign terrorist.
Domestic terrorist it’s a law enforcement problem. Foreign terrorist and it’s an act of war.
Cornyn voted with Cruz to defund ObamaCare. There seems to be confusion with this and another vote.
McConnell voted against it. Dementia?
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