U.S. Army To Buy $6 Million Of Riot Equipment (Obama plans to crush citizen protests this summer)

The U.S. Army is to invest $6 million in riot equipment, a fact that has furthered fears that troops will be used inside the U.S. in order to quell any civil unrest resulting from the ongoing economic crisis.

The U.S. Army Contracting Agency, based at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has a post on the Federal Business Opportunities website, requesting the equipment and has received several notices of interest from potential vendors.

The request titled “84–RIOT EQUIPMENT” outlines the need for hard polyethylene Shin and Chest Guards, shock absorbing Forearm Protectors, Interior leg brace supports as well as knee and ankle protectors.

The ACA asks that the equipment be able to “safely withstand a substantial blow… from non-ballistic weapons or flying debris”.

The associated North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) code for this procurement is 453998 with a small business size standard of $6M. This requirement is a [ Small Business ] set-aside and only qualified offerors may submit bids.

Interested vendors include Irish Brigade inc., manufacturers of hunting and safety gear with facilities located in the heart of Kansas City , Missouri. Federal and Military resource company MCLEARVISION, LLC is another interested party, as is Kentucky based U. S. CAVALRY STORE, INC.

In our article yesterday we highlighted the fact that Urban warfare training drills are taking place across the country as top analysts as well as officials predict a potential “summer of rage” across Europe and America as civil unrest from the economic fallout builds.

Are such drills really for the purpose of preparing troops for foreign combat zones? Undoubtedly - but other factors indicate that the drills may very well also be aimed at preparing troops for dealing with mass civil unrest as the economic crisis worsens.

There’s no question that U.S. authorities have been closely observing riots that have toppled governments in Iceland and Latvia and also threatened to do so in several other European countries. The fact that they have contingency plans in place to deal with such scenarios should they unfold in America cannot be disputed.

The U.S. Army War College in November released a white paper called Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development. The report warned that the military must be prepared for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The “widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.”

“Wonderfully skillful dodging!

Congrats!”

Thanks...but I’m not the one making wild assertions here...

So...the illuminatti...the reptile brain humans....they after you are they?

Maybe I’m one of....them?

Did they come here by UFO?..or did they travel through the 4th dimension usng a pyramid?

Is stargate REAL and the show is a conditioning tool?

Is all this science fiction really just genetic memory?

Is the book of revelations really a story of our past warfare with nuclear weapons?

Is the moon really solid?...is there a base on the dark side?

Have we allready traveled to other planets?

Am I testing to see what answers you present and how the conditiong is going cpmpared to how people interact with you?

Have you ever been a test subject?

I lived through it so I know first hand what took place. I was armed and watching out for bands of looters. My home was in fact looted on multiple occasions when I wasn’t there. A truck with NG once stopped by and they never took away my guns. In fact they told me to watch out for NOLA cops who they said were unlawfully confiscating guns and unlawfully arresting homeowners.

There are a lot of blowhards on FR who never got closer to Katrina than watching CNN from their living room in the middle of Ohio, yet they think they know what happened. I can’t say that I know what took place on every block of the city, but I know what I saw with my own eyes.

Clearly...you are govt operative...

*snicker*

It won’t happen unless the folks who put him in office remove him.

I don’t think God’s going to.

A lot of us prayed as we had never prayed before in behalf of Palin. God saw fit to avoid answering those prayers as we wished.

Perhaps insufficient numbers prayed insufficiently earnestly or with insufficient fasting.

Perhaps this is something that must needs be.

It certainly appears that it must needs be just as the satanic global oligarchy must needs be.

HOWEVER, THE LORD PROMISED TO RAISE UP A STANDARD WHEN THE ENEMY COMES IN LIKE A FLOOD.

He will do that. I just don’t know when or to what effect.

I do know that those who Love God shall do great exploits against the forces of darkness in this era.

OThuga will fall into the pit he has dug. I suspect that the folks who put him in place will shove him into that pit when they are through using him. He will be less important to them than used toilet paper. He’s merely a paper doll puppet. And pretty cheap paper, at that.

And, in due course, after great bloodshed, the oligarchy putting him place will join him in the mother of all pits.

Alas, that is some years off, yet. Much horror will occur, first.

You should read this: The 1968 Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorder.

The commission studied, among other things, what force levels were needed to quell what level of unrest and get the masses off the street.

Once the masses are off the street, the riot is over.

Only the complete and overwhelming saturation of all unsympathetic official recourse on a very broad scale would unable to be shut down, and that would likely elicit a violent response in one or more areas--especially if 'peacekeeping' entities met with violent resistance.

Such 'incidents' of violent resistance could be manufactured within the context of peaceful protest for the purpose of villifying the protest and the cause it supports, or the official response, provided media would report it that way. Anything from firecrackers to well placed gunshots could trigger the incident, and it need not come from a participant on either side of the situation, so long as someone percieves the other group is using deadly force.

It is not likely that any such conflict would begin with the use of lethal force, but escalate to that degree, at which point the use of force will follow from events and seem justifiable at the time, especially if parsed in sanitized bureaucratese.

If the incident is isolated, and the outcome violent, the 'official' media would paint the rebellious citizens (or responding force, depending on desired outcome) as heinous and vicious criminals, with as evil a countennance as possible to cause isolation from the general (and decent) public, villification, and to crush so much as sympathetic talk about the issue which led to protest in the first place. (Isolation, villification,....sound familliar?)

Needless to say, this would have a dampening effect on any support from the 'ordinary' masses for those who embrace the now-villified cause, and could even lead to material support (informants) in rounding up sympathizers.

Witness what happened to the 'militia movement' and the protest of Federal actions at Waco, Texas after the media (in the public psyche) tied the OK City bombing, not to 'supporting Middle Eastern John Does', but to old Constitution-reading Jesus-loving White guys with guns and comoflage jackets, and then proceeded to connect being a 'Constitution-reading Jesus-loving white guy with a gun and camoflage jacket' to skinheads and crackpots and criminals from under every rock anywhere.

Once those sound-byte level connections were made for Mom and Pop TVnewsWatcher, by extension, even hunters were villified.

The STFU factor was there, effective, and worked against effective mainstream dissent.

This is no secret, and can be used against any people in any portion of the political spectrum by anyone controlling the offical assets and the media to do so.

What has been the ultimate check on rogue governmental action in the past has been a significant and hostile media, one which would be immediatiely villifying the current administration for getting out of line, or a branch of Government which would not go along.

While under the Clintons, we saw an inkling of what it would be like with a sympathetic media and one branch of government willing to push the limits, we are now faced with a media which worships the very administration they should help question, and an administration which is ruthlessly looting and changing our government on a daily basis, with enough majority in Congress and no compunction about violating the Constitution.

It is the perfect storm, and allows the administration to take actions which will only considerably worsen the economy and weaken our nation, eventually virtually guaranteed to cause incidents.

It is the response to those isolated incidents which will be used to quell any rebellion before it gets started.

Beat that game plan, and America has a chance. Otherwise, better to wait for the election or work to hobble/remove this administration through peaceful means than give the excuse needed to implement the police state, if you think there is a solid chance to avoid that happening.

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