Posted on 07/29/2012 12:57:21 PM PDT by bimboeruption
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered masses of riot gear equipment to prepare for potential significant domestic riots at the Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention and next year’s presidential inauguration.
The DHS submitted a rushed solicitation to the Federal Business Opportunities site on Wednesday, which is a portal for Federal government procurement requisitions over $25,000. The request gave the potential suppliers only one day to submit their proposals and a 15-day delivery requirement to Alexandria, Virginia.
As the brief explains, “the objective of this effort is to procure riot gear to prepare for the 2012 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the 2013 Presidential Inauguration and other future similar activities.”
The total amount ordered is about 150 sets of riot helmets, thigh and groin protectors, hard-shell shin guards and other riot gear.
Specifically, DHS is looking to obtain:
- “147 riot helmets” with “adjustable tactical face shield with liquid seal”
- “147 sets of upper body and shoulder protection”
- “152 sets of thigh and groin protection”
- “147 hard-shell shin guards” with “substantial protection from flying debris, non-ballistic weapons, and blows to the leg” and “optimized protective design for severe riot control or tactical situations.”
- “156 forearm protectors”
- “147 pairs of tactical gloves”
The riot gear will be worn by Federal Protective Service agents who are tasked with protecting property, grounds and buildings owned by the federal government.
The urgency of the order can be explained by the fact that there is a growing anticipation that many demonstrators will travel to the Republican National Convention (RNC), scheduled for August 27-30 in Tampa Bay, Florida, and Democratic National Convention (DNC), planned for September 3-6 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The RNC itself, for example, will have free speech zones, which will serve as containment quarters for the protesters by not allowing them to leave the designated areas and cause trouble.
Another recent DHS move to gear up was back in March of this year, when it gave the defense contractor ATK a deal to provide the DHS with 450 million .40 caliber hollow-point ammunition over a five year period.
On top of that, the DHS has recently purchased a number of bullet-proof checkpoint booths and hired hundreds of new security guards to protect government buildings.
They needed more than that when the gays raided Fredericks of Hollywood in Hollywood a few Halloweens ago.
OK, I am as unhappy about this administration as anybody else here, but this article from RT is really scare-mongering. 150 riot suits? Come on, Putin has twenty times that number in each of his former KGB neighborhood depots.
Sometimes it’s scary that RT/Pravda is actually more truthful than our Obama media sycophants. This article is not one of those times. This is pure propaganda designed sow division and to appeal to us as conservatives. We conservatives have legitimate concerns about the direction of this country, but we have to recognize attempts by outsiders to exploit this sentiment.
This gives me the creeps. You may be right, I hope not, but you have an interesting theory I had not even considered.
If it were 15,000 then I’d be on heightened alert.
Makes me think of IRS agents, 16,000, who carry guns now.
Why would IRS need to be packing? 16,000 IRS..........
Can you imagine wearing all of that gear in August.....in Tampa? The Dem convention starts on Labor Day.
My bet it they’re headed to Grayling Michigan.
The largest Nat Guard facility in the nation.
I’ve been seeing that migration north this time of year since the 1960s.
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