Posted on 11/19/2015 7:16:54 PM PST by markomalley
Why would a sheriffs department in northeast Alabama in a county with a population of 118,000 stick their taxpayers with a bill for maintaining a tracked APC?
My guess is that a lot of cops have stated their opposition to obummer’s policies and he is afraid they will turn on him should we have any uprising.
Now I am not suggesting that the populace should rise up, but I am wondering if bummer knows something we don't that would cause upheaval.
Such as maybe a financial crash, or something similar.
In other words, is he getting ready for something?
Or is he planning a third term?
Who knows. Our president is nuts and you can never outguess one who is irrational.
My memory may be failing me. It is a command track. M-578 sounds familiar.
That’s what I’m thinking.
What kind of a crime wave could a county of 118,000 people have to justify an APC to a rural fixed income taxbase other than to satisfy some weird cop fantasy?
Bingo! Give the man a ceegar!
Third term and a lot of older cops are Oathkeepers. I doubt Zero sends them a check each month. The other thing is the press seems to becoming slightly awake and Zero knows a backlash could come.
A few years back, in semi rural Connecticut, some of the local towns formed a SWAT team, complete with one of these vehicles. Now, the towns are paying millions to settle a case where a raid went wrong, and some guy was executed, because a stripper saw some pot in his friend’s house. One of the overwhelming sentiments expressed was that the cops just had to have something to do, with their shiny new equipment . . .
The sheriff of my county that I helped elect and who is part of the Constitutional militia of my state ought to have whatever equipment he deems necessary to do his job serving and protecting the people of my county.
A tracked vehicle might have come in mighty handy in the three forest fires he dealt with in his first year in office and the thousand year flood he handled in his second year. For all I know he made good use of some.
I know he did a damn good job on all of it.
This is how Obama operates. Just like Benghazi, the Syrian Rebels etc. He arms those who the American public will support, knowing that those arms will end up in the hands of America’s enemies. All by design to have us pay to arm our foes.
If you actually ‘need’ an APC, then you don’t need police. You need a SEAL team. Somehow over the decades, police managed to be police without the stuff.
If you need tracked vehicles for rescue, they are available from any heavy equipment dealer. Budget the cash and buy one.
He’s a sheriff not the police and we didn’t need a SEAL team to deal with forest fires and floods. We did need vehicles that could take people into active fires and over dozens of miles of washed out roads to rescue people in harm’s way.
What difference does it make where the vehicle is acquired? Like a good socialist money doesn’t matter to you so why not decline the milsurp and spend tens of thousands more, right?
He’s the police. Forest fires and flooding are best addresses with bulldozers, skidders and bucket loaders. Mot military gear.
I trust my sheriff to make those decisions not some “more conservative than thou” anonymous d-bag on the internet.
“Like a good socialist money doesn’t matter to you”
See my comment on budget it and buy it. If you call that socialism, you need a remedial econ 101 lesson.
You’re the one who suggested spending more money than necessary.
Do whatever you like. Sounds to me you haZ a sad that you lost a free toy to play with you never should have had to begin with.
If you feel those tool are needed, go buy them. Not seeing the socialism there.
That sounds like irrational blustering.
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