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Weird… California City of 150,000 Rolls Out Armored Death Machine Complete with Machine Gun Turret
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 2-27-2014 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/27/2014 10:35:47 AM PST by servo1969

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To: Zeneta

Hmmmmmm, the Air Force is trying to eliminate the A-10 from inventory.

Do you suppose we could get a couple?


21 posted on 02/27/2014 10:48:58 AM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: Salvavida

“Ever live in Salinas? GANGS X 10. It is harder to find a non-gang member.”

Better odds they have access to the appropriate hardware to stand on equal footing.


22 posted on 02/27/2014 10:50:13 AM PST by Rebelbase (Tagline: optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: Zathras

Yup! Good thing us Ca citizens can’t own one, eh?


23 posted on 02/27/2014 10:51:15 AM PST by DBrow
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To: dainbramaged

Will the radiator take hits from a .357 or a 12 ga slug?


24 posted on 02/27/2014 10:51:37 AM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: DBrow

I feel so much safer. /sar


25 posted on 02/27/2014 10:52:22 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Rebelbase

Any heavy industrial tractor or truck could easily take that out...simply ram it, box it in...molotov it after. Its just a metal death box if things ever really SHTF. I’d not want to be a LEO sitting in there.


26 posted on 02/27/2014 10:52:31 AM PST by gwgn02
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To: null and void

I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought that.
De-milled A10 would be fun to fly!


27 posted on 02/27/2014 10:53:13 AM PST by Zathras
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To: servo1969

Lousy mileage.
Expensive fast wearing tires

Just what every cash strapped muni needs....


28 posted on 02/27/2014 10:53:52 AM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: no-to-illegals

Monterey County Conference Center


29 posted on 02/27/2014 10:54:13 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: servo1969

Slowly, well maybe bot so slowly now, The Armed Forces are being replaced by “law enforcement agencies”. Those in turned, are being manned by degenerates with no morals, low character, and no principles, only a joy to kill and maim. And when the order is given to round up and slaughter the sheep, they will eagerly carry it out.


30 posted on 02/27/2014 10:54:37 AM PST by sport
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To: biff

After watching some of the videos from the Ukraine, it occurs to me that simple gasoline and bottles work wonders. If you coat the outside of that vehicle with burning fuel, the air intakes will fill with smoke and fire, and the metal will get hot as an oven. The piggies inside would have no choice but to evac or be cooked/smoked to death.


31 posted on 02/27/2014 10:55:13 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia

realistically, how effective are those?


32 posted on 02/27/2014 10:55:29 AM PST by MNDude
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To: Zeneta; servo1969

More on the “1033 Program”

The Pentagon’s 1033 program: giving free military equipment to police departments around the U.S.

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/12/pentagons-1033-program-giving-free.html

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The police in the United States have been steadily militarized over the past decade to the point of absurdity, as recently exemplified by police rolling out an armored personnel carrier (APC) to the Occupy Tampa protests.

Benjamin Carlson of The Daily covered one of the more unsettling recent developments in this militarization of police, the Department of Defense’s obscure “1033 program” which has given away almost $500 million in leftover military equipment to law enforcement in the fiscal year of 2011.

This year’s total is more than double the amount of equipment handed out in 2010, which was $212 million worth of military gear, setting a new record for the program.

Included in this distribution of military equipment are: armored vehicles, like the one seen at Occupy Tampa and in towns and cities across the nation, along with M-16 assault rifles, grenade launchers, helicopters and even military robots.

Yet the 1033 program looks like it is getting even worse, with orders for the fiscal year 2012 being up 400% over the same period in 2011 according to data provided by the Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency to The Daily.

If it keeps at this pace, that would mean $2 billion in equipment for American police departments in the fiscal year 2012.

The 1033 program was passed by Congress in 1997, which I found quite interesting as most of these programs have been pushed in the wake of September 11th, 2001, under the pretext of fighting the so-called “war on terror.”

However, even then, their justification was that it would be used to fight drugs and terrorism and since it began, over 17,000 law enforcement agencies have accepted $2.6 billion in military equipment, only having to pay for the cost of delivering the gear.

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more at the link


33 posted on 02/27/2014 10:57:04 AM PST by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: servo1969
They say they appreciate comments. LOL

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34 posted on 02/27/2014 10:57:23 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: dainbramaged

No.


35 posted on 02/27/2014 10:58:43 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: nascarnation

It will be up for auction in a few years. Maybe a farmer or rancher could think of an application for it. Or something for the monster truck circuit.


36 posted on 02/27/2014 11:00:30 AM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: servo1969

“America’s policemen are being encouraged more and more to operate as if they are at war.”

A friend and I were talking over lunch a few weeks ago. He started talking about the growing militarization of police forces and sheriffs offices all across the US.

The weaponry and armoured vehicles aside, he said the biggest problem will be the individuals using those weapons and vehicles. He said that many have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. over there, they were taught to handle civilians as if they were potential terrorists or criminals.

A large number have come back and have got positions in law enforcement - but they still see many of us (even if were doing nothing wrong) as potential terrorists and criminals. They don’t look at us as people to protect FROM the terrorists and criminals. Accordingly, you see an increase in aggressive, shoot first-maybe we’ll ask questions later actions by these officers and deputies.

Officers shooting cats and non-hostile dogs, people being beaten and rousted during routine traffic stops for even the slightest sign of non-cooperation, no-knock raids in which property is destroyed, etc - and all the while, the police get off scot-free as Internal Affairs investigations will always vindicate the officer as being “threatened”, thus leading to his/her actions.


37 posted on 02/27/2014 11:00:52 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MNDude
See my response at 31.
38 posted on 02/27/2014 11:01:25 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: ladyjane

I just had so much fun! I called the mayor’s office in Salinas. Talked to a very nice lady who was very gracious answering questions. LOL I asked her who the police plan to use the machine gun on. I asked, “are the police really paranoid or do they think there’s going to be an invasion? If no invasion, are they going to use it on citizens, on people going through red lights or on jay walkers?” She offered to connect me to the police department. LOL She had a good attitude.


39 posted on 02/27/2014 11:03:29 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: servo1969

can somone photoshop some dogs with red lines through them?(like WW2 fighter plane nose art)


40 posted on 02/27/2014 11:03:46 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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