Posted on 12/08/2011 8:32:00 AM PST by Just4Him
The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will. We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up and it turns out a lot of these weapons are going straight to American police forces to be used against US citizens. Benjamin Carlson at The Daily reports on a little known endeavor called the "1033 Program" that gave more than $500 million of military gear to U.S. police forces in 2011 alone. 1033 was passed by Congress in 1997 to help law-enforcement fight terrorism and drugs, but despite a 40-year low in violent crime, police are snapping up hardware like never before. While this year's staggering take topped the charts, next year's orders are up 400 percent over the same period.
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“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” Barack Hussein Obama, 7/2/2008
They don’t call it a Civil Defense force, that would imply we need (or perhaps deserve) defense.
The official name is National Civilian Community Corps.
I think of it as the NATCCC, or simply the NATCs...
..Oh, and one helicopter, please.
Well done!
Wow! Do you have a link?
At the same time they are moving to disarm us, the Department of Homeland Security, along with Obama’s allies at the higher levels of all government agencies are takinig steps to convert a “soft” tyranny into what the Venezuelans and other are facing.
A dedicated, well-armed corps of law-enforcement personnel capable of smashing ANY discontent on ANY side of a political issue - but most especially OURS.
Not that the libs should feel secure. Hitler had his Roehm purge.
This is very frightening. I have far more confidence in our military not to fire on American citizens than I do on law-enforcement personnel.
A mid-to-late 1970s (possibly early 80s?) group of radical-black-activist types were wanted for various crimes. They holed themselves up in a couple of row house/townhouse units in a poor/ghetto part of Philly.
These were NOT nice people by any stretch of the imagination. However, instead of waiting them out, or deploying police in the specific units in which the criminals were holed-up, the Philly police dropped some kind of jury-rigged incendiary device out of a helicopter on to the row houses/townhouses. They pretty much wiped out an entire city block.
That's how I remember it, anyway.
My Post #26 was supposed to be addressed to you, Celerity.
Sorry about that, Buckeye McFrog.
An excellent point.
Because you're not an American?
A three seater?
Ok here is whats going to happen. Either next year the Government (Obama) knows somethings up and are preparing the Civilian LE for massive chaos or civil disorder or Obama is really going to call martial law, due to any number of reasons. From Disaster to political upheaval to nuclear war. Maybe the whack job Alex Jones is right about the fema camps. With this bunch in the White Hut who knows? Or maybe 12-21-12 is the day things end and the survivors need to be kept in line.
The group they bombed was MOVE.
They were trash, but police definitely overreacted (to put it mildly).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
The Philly Police were trying to evict a group of radical black Marxist squatters who had holed up inside a row of town houses. They tried to force them out by dropping a bomb from a helicopter onto the roof of their building. They started a massive fire which took out 65 homes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
There were big investigations into this here in Pennsylvania.
Fast Eddie Rendell’s fingerprints were on it somehow as I recall.
Thanks for looking that up. It looks like I was off a bit on the date of the actual bombing.
If you think your dog is in danger from being shot by the police now... just wait.
And that it is going apace right out in the open for everyone to see, which is the best place to hide anything?
You are correct, except that it was a bomb that they dropped to knock out a fortified installation on the roof. It started a fire from gas cans that were up there, and the result was what you recall.
Whenever there is a standoff situation, the Police try to force a conclusion by aggressive engagement (They attack) and it almost NEVER ends well (Can you say Waco?).
People always die every time it has been tried.
I KNEW I should not have relied solely on my increasingly-faulty memory...
;-)
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