http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728179/US-military-transferred-4-3-BILLION-surplus-equipment-American-cities-counties-including-grenade-launchers-combat-vehicles-helicopters.html
Hope this link works
The title has already been changed at Daily Mail since I started to post this...sorry
Obama said he wanted a civilian police force as well armed and funded as the military.
Keep the contract suppliers happy so they keep funneling cash to the political successors of John Murtha.
They don’t really own it. Ubama is just staging it around the country for future use by his civilian army.
So far it is all one-sided.
For once, I want to know if ANY small town LEOs questioned and refused the equipment.
Well, I guess that's one way around the Posse Comitatas law. It says the regular military can't be used against american citizens, but don't think it says anything about civiians with military gear. Witness Waco. Military planned it. Military gave em the gear. Military gave em the vehicles. Military gave em the weapons. But it was a civilian op doncha know.
The US Govt is the BIGGEST liar on the planet, BAR NONE! (And there's some pretty big liars on the world scene)
Operation: Git Whitey
Since nearly all police forces are unionized and thereby overwhelmingly Democrat, a case could be made of the formation of a national political police force. Like the SS.
With the rates that defense contractors bill DOD for stuff, that $4.3 billion ads up to what; a couple of shipping containers of toilet seats, milspec hammers, and some spiffy made-in-china berets?
More than likely, all of the stuff being offered is obsolete, broken, worn out, and would have likely been dispositioned as scrap. There may have been a few gems in that pile, but it’s still a pile.
As long as the thugs and gangs act like ISIS, the police should be equipped like the military.
Does anyone know if this started under W? He was the one he revived Big Government.
So, what? Like one hammer?