Posted on 03/04/2013 6:00:13 AM PST by Liz
This is getting a little creepy. According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. DHS also purchased 2,700 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP). (30-35,0000 drones are on order--being built in Starkville, Miss.)
Modern Survival Blog reported: The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.
Although I’ve seen and read several online blurbs about this vehicle of late, I decided to dig slightly deeper and discover more about the vehicle itself.
The new DHS sanctioned ‘Street Sweeper’ (my own slang due to the gun ports) is built by Navistar Defense (NavistarDefense.com), a division within the Navistar organization. Under the Navistar umbrella are several other companies including International Trucks, IC Bus (they make school buses), Monaco RV (recreational vehicles), WorkHorse (they make chassis), MaxxForce (diesel engines), and Navistar Financial (the money arm of the company).
DHS even released a video on their newly purchased MRAPs. LINK AT WEB SITE ---Via Pat Dollard:
The MRAP featured in the video was in Albuquerque, New Mexico for Law Enforcement Day which was held at a local area Target Store. This MRAP is stationed in El Paso, Texas at The Homeland Security Investigations Office. MRAP is a Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicle.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/obama-dhs-purchases-2700-light-armored-tanks-to-go-with-their-1-6-billion-bullet-stockpile/
Rest of the story?
I am thinking swimming pool tablets...
Mrs O was roundly criticized---those in the seats say Hollywood heaved a collective groan when she appeared.
DEMOCRATS LIKE DONNY DEUTSCH WEIGHED IN: "As far as I'm concerned, she was an uninvited guest. Now what I mean by that is (as an advert guru), you have to give the consumer, the viewer, the ultimate respect. They tuned in to watch movie stars, to watch movies. And all of a sudden, politics is thrown at them."
"If I want to watch her on Jimmy Fallon, that's okay. But, (the Awards)---that was an intrusion, and I have a feeling that three out of four Americans -- Democrat or Republican -- don't want to see the First Lady (there). I think you have to respect your audience enough to not impose her, that's not a moment we're looking for there---the President or the First Lady," Deutsch said on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight."
DONNY CONTINUED: "....the tone of it, it was almost a monarch quality.....an elitist flavor to it. I was watching and going, 'huh?' and I'm a Democrat," Deutsch told host Piers Morgan. "I just thought it was very very tone deaf and I was really surprised they did it," Deutsch concluded.
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Ohaha showed his hand: he's using the "Argentina Strategy." He and his wife see themselves as Juan and Evita wanabes---with unlimited power---employing military strongmen to keep the rabble in check---while duping the citizenry into thinking they are "humanitarians.
SOUND FAMILIAR? The Perons bankrupted Argentina, took savage, total power by confiscating money from the rich-----and letting Evita bestow the money on the poor, in numerous well-publicized "acts of charity."
Evita traveled around in luxurious designer fashions, furs and lavish jewels; she was infatuated w/ Hollywood. Reigning movie queen Lana Turner saw Evita adopt her look and hair styles---and was alarmed when her jewelry was confiscated so that Evita could get it copied.
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Mrs O At Oscars--a "Creepy South American totalitarian-lite vibe." Did she really belong there?
NYPost quotes Walter Kirn of the liberal journal, The New Republic: seeing Mrs O preening before Hollywood, lavishly gowned, replete with jewels, and, of all things, military guards, was a "Creepy South American totalitarian-lite vibe...."
NY Post opined: "Even President Ronald Reagan never busted in live on the Oscars, and Reagan was an actual movie star, academy member, and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. (Reagan taped a non-self-aggrandizing “enjoy the show” welcome for the March 30, 1981, Oscars — which had to be delayed because he was shot that very day.)" (EXCERPT--NYP Oscar Review 2/26)
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THE PARA-MILITARY OBAMA DEMOCRATS ARE ON THE MARCH Obama campaigned on the "need" for a strong tax-funded civilian para-military force......b/c he needs Peronista-like military strongmen to advance his secret anti-American agenda.
aside - your graphic is missing the old man with the shotgun.
I wonder how many body bags they have in the warehouse.
lol. just something I found on the internet
Good question-—that would tell the tale, as well.
Don’t know if true but heard on the inter-web;
Fill mason jars with ammonia, throw at ventilation intakes. There is no way to filter out ammonia. Occupants will exit vehicle, act on threat.
We have to find out how many body bags they have in the warehouse.
Can anyone imagine these being manned by the sloven likes of TSA? Bravery isn’t exactly a word that comes to my mind.
Nobama may indeed be trying to build his Brown Shirt security force, but the way I see it is these “brown shirts” will rapidly go brown pants when SHTF, not to mention what percentage of all this DHS stuff will end up at a pawn shop in Deetroit.
Need to pass a law quickly that drones can only be used on southern border of US.
Again, obviously a man IN HIS OWN HOME, in a defensive posture.
The training is to shoot him "without hesitation".
I did the math with some estimates on holding some in reserve, using some for routine proficiency training of agents over the next 5 years. (based on estimates of # agents with firearms). It works out but...
As others pointed out to me, my estimate of 100 to 200 rounds per agent per month is probably very high. Sheesh. That means I'm far better trained and practiced with my firearms than they are. If the numbers others quoted me are real, then I am at least as proficient/familiar as they are. (though I do have this tendency to push left with the 9mm when shooting right handed, I think it's incurable, though less pronounced during rapid-fire drills)
The other problem with this "explanation" is that these are all hollow points. Sheesh! I train with cheap FMJ (but no more Tul Ammo!) where the JHP the DHS is buying is 3x to 4x the cost of FMJ.
Yeah, individually, if you want to strain credulity a little, you can explain away many of the moves by hussein, DHS, and others. Taken collectively though, they are very, very ominous. Will future generations criticize us for being so blind right now? I don't know, but I'm starting to worry.
The standing army our Founders feared: militarized police agencies.
Exactly.
Think about it. Someone has to get out to hook on to it.
ain't that the truth...
This is all super creepy. But these are not tanks, they are “Armored Cars”. When the original author called them tanks it makes us look like goof-balls. But no doubt these are being made to use on unruly american citizens.
Dictator Ohaha's using govt authority and tax dollars to turn the DHS and other government agencies into domestic military forces.
What's next--- released criminal illegals in camo patrolling the streets w/ shoulder holsters and ammo clips? Checkpoints at state borders?
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