Posted on 05/19/2020 6:07:48 AM PDT by dynachrome
The purchase orders include requests for disposable cuffs, gas masks, ballistic helmets, and riot gloves, along with law enforcement protective equipment for federal police assigned to protect Veterans Affairs facilities. The orders were expedited under a special authorization “in response to Covid-19 outbreak.”
The Veterans Affairs department, which manages nearly 1,500 health care care facilities around the country, has also extended special contracts for coronavirus-related security services.
(Excerpt) Read more at theintercept.com ...
Intercept is very left.
We’re all frogs in the slowly heating water..
NOAA has a SWAT team too. Why do the weather people need machine guns?
This is about subsidizing the huge military/security industry. That’s why Congress gives military gear to the local police, not because the local police need it. Militarizing the police and government non-military agencies is not about control, though that may be a side effect. It’s about sending money to the companies who employ lobbyists to lobby for those purchases. Why does the IRS need SWAT teams? (Read about that one during the Obama presidency.) Why does the local sheriff in a rural county need an armored vehicle?
The county I live in has at least one MRAP(?) vehicle.
“The federal funding requests contrast sharply with the rosy rhetoric from President Donald Trump, who has lavished himself with praise for his response to the crisis....”
Yep..Mr Fang doesn’t sound like s big fan of PDJT.
“Last month, the federal government secured a contract to purchase 100,000 body bags to dispose of deaths related to the Covid-19 outbreak.”
Sounds like good planning to me. Aren’t we edging up on 100k deaths?
for when they have a vaccine ready for us to take
How well does riot gear do against crossbows and 50 caliber guide guns. Asking for a friend
To kill Globull Warming deniers.
Its like the postal service given ammo during obama
May a well ping him...
At least we’ll know where to go to get nightvision goggles, bulletproof vests and ammo when the Big Bugaloo heats up.
During obama’s run, all the federal agencies were ordered to buy up millions of rounds of ammo to get them off the market.
I worked in the late 80s and through the 90s at a non-law-enforcement federal agency in DC. Next to our office area was a locked room that seemed to be never used.
However, on a few occasions over the years, I saw that door open. The room contained a huge, walk-in vault, and I saw people bringing in or taking out huge loads of ammunition more than once.
We always wondered what was going on, but were afraid to ask. . . .
Pretty much every county in the nation has at least one one MWRAP personnel carrier... and those things offer good protection against IED’s, but are vulnerable to other things.
1 unit gasoline
2 units used motor oil
1 unit crushed stryofoam
Alternatively
2 units Drano cyrstals
3 units gasoline
Draino? Do you lye?
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