Eating up steroids, shooting family dogs, using military hardware, targeting American Veterans, thinking everyone's crooked...
"You are illegally parked on private property. You have 20 seconds to move your vehicle."
Posted on 05/19/2014 7:56:56 AM PDT by PoloSec
Not only has the Obama administration waged war on our veterans through the VA Scandal, now there is whole new front of attack on our veterans we have to worry about.
In a terrifying news report on the militarization of our police forces – watch as a veteran officer of the Indiana police remarks that police are having to prepare for returning veterans with the ability to make IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices).
That’s right. One of the reasons our police forces are giving for having to become more like military forces is the soldiers returning home from the front.
It’s scary watching our police forces become militarized… but it’s even scarier to hear some of their reasons for doing so. Crime, including violent crime, has been dropping across the country over the last 30 years, yet somehow this police officer believes that crime has gotten worse since he’s become a cop?
It’s reasoning just like his that is militarizing our police… and it’s a dangerous precedent to set.
So while local police forces all over the country are militarizing - the President of the United States is simultaneously pushing hard to take guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens… because “weapons of war don’t belong on our streets.”
In fact, while the President and the Pentagon pour these powerful military weapons onto our streets, they are demanding that we turn in weapons that are much weaker by contrast. Interestingly, the President seems to believe that our semi-automatic rifles have no place on the street, but he has no problem when local police forces get much stronger and deadlier weapons to use against us.
We shouldn’t stop there. We should restore the ban on military-style assault weapons and a 10-round limit for magazines. And that deserves a vote in Congress — because weapons of war have no place on our streets, or in our schools, or threatening our law enforcement officers. Our law enforcement officers should never be out-gunned on the streets.
Our founders endlessly debated the idea of a standing military force. In the end it was deemed necessary. Can you imagine how irate they would be to learn that today’s America has MULTIPLE standing militaries? The military, our police, and dozens of federal agencies are all now well equipped to control us… if need be.
I don’t want to sound like someone with a brain-load of conspiracy theories… BUT… if we’ve learned anything over the last few years it’s that we can’t trust our government.
So does it sound wise to give up our means of protecting ourselves (the 2nd Amendment) while at the same time watching our government arm all of its different agencies to the teeth?
I don’t think so.
Eating up steroids, shooting family dogs, using military hardware, targeting American Veterans, thinking everyone's crooked...
"You are illegally parked on private property. You have 20 seconds to move your vehicle."
I have my doubts the the U.S. Military will stand back and allow paramilitary forces to attack veterans. Officers do not swear to obey the President. They swear to defend the constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.
***because “weapons of war don’t belong on our streets.” **
If this idiot had been alive in 1902 he would be screaming for a ban on the new fangled high powered Winchester 30-30 Lever action rifle, after Harry Tracy piled up dead lawmen like cord wood in his last prison break.
But then, people had more sense back at that time.
I tried researching under different key words but nothing really showed. I’ll keep trying to pin it down. Unfortunately GGD passed away so there’s no finding out.
*** There was article after article about how the crime rate would skyrocket when they vets returned***
I remember a Bill Mauldin cartoon. Willie (of Willie and Joe fame) is reading a newspaper. The front page has, in big letters SOLDIER SLAPS AUNT!.
He says to his wife..”Here is an article about a triple axe murder on page six. No GIs involved.”
***I remember when a car backfired and three guys dropped to the ground.***
When my dad got back from WWII he was always jumpy at any loud noise. He would not let us have firecrackers. He and many other servicemen would drive way out into the country to keep away from the constant “POP,POP,POP!
Regular fireworks were no problem.
Any loud pop would make him jump, even a cutting torch tip when it popped would make him jump.
He was jumpy till he died.
Check your mail.
>>This country is getting dangerously close to declaring martial law.<<
What’s the use of declaring it if you can’t enforce it?
The people in the tank have to get out sometime. Once out, they're vulnerable to rifles, arrows, Molotov cocktails, and a lot of other things, including garrotes. Don't become so fixated on the tanks that you forget the people riding in them.
My opinion is that the "people" should have rights to the same type of weapons as any of the civilian agencies, federal or state.
Undeniable fact: Afghanistan.
Stone age fighters have not been pacified by the very weapons and forces you are so afraid of.
They are just flesh and they can be killed. They have to sleep and relieve themselves and eat and the 'puny' weapons you speak of can easily penetrate their body armor.
There are many precedents that invalidate your proclamations. The Taliban are doing just fine now aren't they? AQ in Iraq were never fully eliminated and they're making a comeback now as well. The Vietnamese who held out against our military would beg to differ with your assessment.
Although it wasn't our military that is to blame for failed “police” actions over the last several decades, our military was only able to accomplish so much against overwhelmingly outgunned opponents due to several factors, the primary ones being the style of war being waged and the effect of a subversive media determined to keep morale for such actions at the lowest ebb possible.
Several hundred million arms in this country are more than enough to destroy any portion of government or our armed forces if there are enough willing patriots that are prepared to stand against them.
Granted that the gloves will come off when our government wages war against their own citizens, the same will hold true on both sides. While the government has the heavy weapons and tech, citizens have numbers which is a burden that will be difficult to overcome without the use of WMD’s, and when the conflict comes to full steam, the government may very will decide to use WMD’s as they will be facing tactics that would not occur in modern wars following previously laid down rules between countries. No, it will get very vicious and both sides will commit unbelievable atrocities like nothing most could bring themselves to imagine.
You have very little regard for the courage, determination and ingenuity of the average American, IMO.
Did ya hear the FDA is getting submachine guns?
Read my whole post. Do not fixate on one sentence. I understand the big picture. The rifle comment was only in re the tanks and set up the solution (EFP’s). I well understand that the organic units utilized as targets will also stop a tank.
Exactly. Equipment does not run/fly or fix itself.
FDA agent with submachine gun: “I said put DOWN that loaf of bread...NOW!”
I think you'd have to compensate for the increasing illegalization of everything — as a current-issue
example, marijuana was completely legal [IIRC] in the `20s and wouldn't have warranted any mention, but today it would be a crime and go in some sort of record — that in itself would skew the by-the-numbers look of things.
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