Posted on 02/28/2013 11:44:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin has warned that the federal government is “stockpiling bullets” in preparation for “civil unrest,” adding that America is “finished” if it cannot deal with its debt problem.
Writing on her official Facebook page, Palin remarked, “If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.”
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The Department of Homeland Security has committed to purchasing around 2 billion bullets over the course of the last year, in addition to buying 7,000 fully automatic assault rifles last September (the agency referred to them as “personal defense weapons”).
Although the mainstream media has played down the purchases as the feds merely saving money by buying in bulk, the ammo buys have contributed to shortages across the country.
However, concerns were further stoked last week when Law Enforcement Targets Inc, a DHS contractor that supplies shooting targets to the agency along with thousands of police departments, was forced to apologize for producing “non-traditional threat” targets which featured images of pregnant women, children and elderly gun owners in residential settings.
Politico published an article following Palin’s Facebook post bizarrely claiming that her concerns about the federal government purchasing ammo in large quantities had been debunked despite admitting that “government agencies are, in fact, purchasing large amounts of ammunition.” This tactic of admitting that the government is purchasing a huge number of bullets while simultaneously portraying anyone concerned about the fact as erroneous and paranoid has been adopted by other mainstream media outlets....
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Its time.
How awesome would it be if our President cared about OUR Liberty as much as this lady. Mmm?
You are a fed.
You would fire on us.
Not to put too fine a point on it, and by no means to be disagreeable with your many valid points or you, but regarding the National Guard I think there may be a difference. A couple of things, I noticed Mao-Bama photo ops during the ‘12 campaign that featured people in uniform and started paying attention to the demographics. Nothing scientific and presuming they were in fact Guard or even military related people and not props, those people in his background were often largely africanhyphenamerican and/or women. Given that that demographic is very loyal to Hussein Mao-Bama, are they likely to hold fire on people who are obviously not his rabid supporters?
Another point, two Novembers ago I was in Charleston SC visiting my daughter. We went to the Veterans Day Parade. There were a lot of well disciplined formations from the armed forces in the parade but, there were also formations from local JROTC programs from high schools outside Charleston consisting largely of africanhyphenamericans and/or women. Not all, but most were strikingly undisciplined. They were not marching in formation as one would expect a well trained outfit to march rather swaying along chanting different chants by the “formation” sometimes even dancing past the Exchange Building where we were viewing. This reminded me of reports a few years back that were posted here about africanhyphenamerican leaders sponsoring JROTC formations of young ahyphenas who it was posited were being trained to be a sort of a militia to take on the white man.
I truly don’t mean to make this stuff racist, it is what I have observed. My only point being that I would not be so sure about the National Guard. I would also point out that there is another paramilitary organization, the blue shirts of the TSA who are only too happy to perform invasive searches on specific groups of people not including those of the islamic persuasion.
Why isn't any other so called Republicans speaking out about this? Why does she always have to take the lead?
Good thing she is not with FauxNews anymore. They would not have let her say this
No secret that fed agencies are stockpiling bullets. You have to be real govt brainwashed or Obama Lover to believe otherwise
“So who in Homeland is going to fire on civilians Sarah?”
Hmmm, Ask Randy Weaver’s wife or his son. Opps, sorry they are dead.
Ask the children in Waco. You might wait a long time to get that response also.
IMHO there will always be someone willing to take that path.
Sounds like Katrina and Sandy to me!
I would think that since the proof is they are in fact buying ammo in quantities that are beyond realistic, you would get an inkling of something not quite right.
But then again, you may be too ingrained in stupidity.
Nope: Haven’t seen it.
The Germans never saw Hitler coming either. The Holocaust? First time for the Jews. Stalin? Russia never had that before either.
Didn’t Obama just ask new Generals if they would fire on Civilians?
They didn’t buy all those bullets for target practice.
Just because something never happened before doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
I would suggest you read about the race riots of the 1960’s. Also check out the whole history of the concentration camps for U.S. citizens of Japaness ancestry during WWII.
So just where do we go to rob these “stockpiles” of ammunition?
“No great insight on Palin’s part. She is just stating the obvious.”
It has become a bold move in our country to state the obvious, just ask Bob Woodward.
You made your point, quite well in fact, but your resorting to name calling demeaned you and your message. Leave the name calling to the Leftests.
Palin is not the only one who thinks the gubmint is stock piling ammo to be used against the American people.
Pray that you're right, but it seems a bit naive to have such trust in our government. They have a habit of running parallel agendas which also have a habit of turning for the worse as far as Freedom and the People are concerned. One might ask why the change in buying habits - going from annual to "long-term" to save money seems a bit ludicrous if one has any sense of how they really feel about efficiency and economy.
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