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Obama bans some military-style equipment provided to police
AP ^ | May 18, 2015 7:28 AM (ET) | By NEDRA PICKLER

Posted on 05/18/2015 6:26:02 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is prohibiting the federal government from providing some military-style equipment to local departments and putting stricter controls on other weapons and gear distributed to law enforcement.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dictator; powergrab
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Does the _resident have the power to restrict local police forces?

Put aside personal objections and think about a power grab from state and local authorities.

1 posted on 05/18/2015 6:26:02 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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What? Does this mean Podunk City, Iowa won't get their MRAP after all? 

 

Pity.

2 posted on 05/18/2015 6:28:39 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

So they just have the bullseye gear now. Of course this all leads to a Federal police force.


3 posted on 05/18/2015 6:29:34 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Much as I hate Obama I agree with this. What do we need cops to be equipped as if they were the 82nd. Airborne?


4 posted on 05/18/2015 6:29:36 AM PDT by jmacusa (`)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Local police forces need APC's like I need a second rectum.

I would endorse this decision if a conservative president made it, therefore I must endorse it as an Obama decision.

5 posted on 05/18/2015 6:29:58 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I wish someone would tell me what "diddy wah diddy" means.....)
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To: A CA Guy

My thinking too.


6 posted on 05/18/2015 6:30:31 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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This is not a one-size-fits-all situation.

In some towns the local police can be lightly armed Peace Officers. But in places like Oakland, Baltimore, Chicago and New York they are outnumbered soldiers in a war zone.

This smells more like a standard Obama power grab - taking advantage of a crisis - than concern over the quality and suitability of local police departments.

Leftists like Obama and Hillary do not want power to reside anywhere other than the federal government.

First they dictated the size of our toilets, then came federal directives on the way our cars are built, then what we can do with mud puddles and ponds on our land, next was the strong arming of the school system, then federal control of our medical care, followed by forced homosexualization of the military, now comes the movement to intimidate, overpower and control local police forces.


7 posted on 05/18/2015 6:30:44 AM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: jmacusa

What I disagree with is that the Executive branch is telling local government what it can and can’t have/do.


8 posted on 05/18/2015 6:31:48 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

What is becoming more and more painfully clear here is that Obama wants a National Police Force. He is using racist rioters and looters in Ferguson and Baltimore as an excuse to send in Federal Authorities and officials.

Then there’s Jade Helm. If anyone thinks this is just another harmless military exercise then they will be the first in line at the Walmart/FEMA camps to get their free Kool-Aid.


9 posted on 05/18/2015 6:33:02 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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He has the power as commander and chief to keep the military from selling surplus military equipment at all if he wishes.

He could order all surplus equipment to be melted down if he wanted.


10 posted on 05/18/2015 6:33:17 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I admit to mixed feeling about this.
More info here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/18/obama-to-visit-camden-n-j-to-tout-community-policing-reforms/?hpid=z1


11 posted on 05/18/2015 6:33:46 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: DJ MacWoW

He wants locals (especially if not black) to wear something new called piñata gear.
Ian”t all this just a riot?


12 posted on 05/18/2015 6:34:41 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Iron Munro
Exactly!

And local police live, well, locally. A federal takeover, martial law, would need their cooperation. It won't do to have them able to defend where they live.

13 posted on 05/18/2015 6:35:09 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

True, but it was FedGov that was supplying all that military hardware to them in the first place.

The Lord (Obama) giveth, and the Lord (Obama) taketh away.


14 posted on 05/18/2015 6:35:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Agreed!


15 posted on 05/18/2015 6:35:47 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Is it up to him or Congress? Honest question. Where is the line? (You know, the one he continually crosses)


16 posted on 05/18/2015 6:38:02 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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He could order all surplus equipment to be melted down if he wanted.

Could he? Does Congress have no input?

17 posted on 05/18/2015 6:40:28 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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Does the _resident have the power to restrict local police forces?

The President, as Commander in Chief, would seem to me to have authority over the disposition of surplus DOD military equipment. Deciding that it shall not be distributed, gratis, to police departments would seem, to me, to be within the President's authority.

Whether that is a wise decision is a separate question.

18 posted on 05/18/2015 6:40:43 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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Is it up to him or Congress? Honest question.

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Good question. But since Obama has had Congress in his pocket since day one - then what difference does it make?


19 posted on 05/18/2015 6:41:53 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: NorthMountain

Does Congress have no input?


20 posted on 05/18/2015 6:43:40 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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