[dynachrome]

Wonder why the Veteran Affairs police need riot gear?

[dynachrome]

Intercept is very left.

[chief lee runamok]

We’re all frogs in the slowly heating water..

[CodeToad]

NOAA has a SWAT team too. Why do the weather people need machine guns?

[Gen.Blather]

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?

[Yo-Yo]

Just wait until they run out of Soylent Green.

[moovova]

“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?

[Pollard]

for when they have a vaccine ready for us to take

[Mouton]

This is “if they got one, we need two or more” desire of any agency of government. An out of control bureaucracy.

[datricker]

How well does riot gear do against crossbows and 50 caliber guide guns. Asking for a friend

[zeugma]

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.”

Remember folks, the government is not your friend.

[dljordan]

“Wonder why the Veteran Affairs police need riot gear? “

Because they like to play hero?

[lurk]

What happened to all the military hardware and ammo the Feds bought in the Obama years? The white collar agencies geared up more than the Marine Corps for a few years there.