The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US

Business Insider ^ | 12/5/2011 | Robert Johnson

[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.

[Lurker]

It was an outfit called MOVE. The Philly cops managed to do almost a million in damage IIRC.

[redgolum]

I don't.
They will find enough troops to do what ever they want to do.

Military follows orders. That is what they do. If they frame the orders the right way, you will get enough volunteers to take out NYC.

For instance, tell the troops that a massive virus outbreak has started, and they have take out the infected.

[EdReform]

Ping

[ZULU]

“If they frame the orders the right way, you will get enough volunteers to take out NYC.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Now THAT might not be a bda idea!!!

[Travis McGee]

CW2 Ping

[ctdonath2]

‘cuz you won’t be a hunter.
You’ll be the hunted.

[Never on my watch]

THIS will not end well.

[stockpirate]

Heck, I feel safer already. *sarcasm

[yantis]

top down...
bottom up...
inside out...

This is the piece that ends all of the above.

[bayouranger]

Up.

[Joe Brower]

My favorite is still this guy:

[CodeToad]

At least we’ll know where the “armory” is. :)

[JrsyJack]

That's how I remember it, anyway.

That's pretty much it except for the part where the police came with a fully auto Ma Duece and used the suppressing fire to keep the people in the house, where I believe 11 men, women and children were burned alive.

[Gaffer]

With the current Muslim Invader-in-Chief in charge for another year, possibly five, I am not in favor of the Pentagon giving ANY LEA any weapons beyond the cork and string popgun kind. As far as I’m concerned at this point, this government is our enemy.

[Ken H]

1033 was passed by Congress in 1997 to help law-enforcement fight terrorism and drugs...

And which party controlled Congress in 1997...?

[ExSoldier]

Old news by about --- ummmm all the way back to the Clinton White House?

[rmlew]

grenade launchers. Any idea what is comming?
Tear Gas. Cops use grenade launchers for these. They don't chuck the canisters.

[af_vet_rr]

Sounds like they are anticipating massive civil unrest. Obama recently signed EO’s that allow him to seize control of all roads, waterways, rail roads, telecom infrastructure, the air traffic control system, water works, power companies, pipelines, etc., pretty much everything necessary to bring the entire country to a screeching halt at the flip of a switch.

There has been an effort to militarize local police departments that goes back well before Obama. It really took off under Clinton, and God only knows what all was handed out in the wake of 9/11, but it was a lot.

[Vor Lady]

Thanks for the ping. Kudos on your books getting out there; Burn Notice and the reviewing site.

[maine yankee]

I am the newly elected Sheriff of the small town of WayneSburg, Virginia (Pop. 3).

How can I get some of this equipment?

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The police chief in the town next to me asked the town council to let him order a bunch of machinee guns for his troops.

This is mid-coast Maine. The town has a population of 7,000.