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Yep, another grant from Homeland Security. And you have to wonder just how many evil people that this guy will catch with his toy.

A couple of years ago....town up the road from where I grew up....figured out how to milk money off Homeland Security. The one-cop town sent a grant request in for a set of $15k night-vision goggles. It didn’t go through the town council, and no one knew about the deal until after the goggles actually arrived. His wording on the application said he’d use it observing illegal drug sales. This is in a small town of 400 people....and no one could remember anyone being arrested for drug sales in the last twenty years. So the town council made “Barney” put the toy up for sale. Well...there are special requirements in this case, and he could only sell it to another police department. It took months of advertising to finally get rid of the goggles.

Down the road from where I grew up, in another town near a state park by a lake....they approached Homeland Security and asked for a speed boat. There was a dam on this lake and they were convinced that evil men would come eventually to blow up the dam....from the water (not the road over the dam, which would have been the obvious way). So they got around $15k in their grant and bought the boat. The 4-man police force bumped up to around six....and they started drunk-boating schemes on the lake on weekends....bringing in tens of thousands during the summer months on drunk boating. They still operate the boat, and it easily pays for the extra cops, and dumps thousands into the cities revenue plan. Naturally, they’ve never seen any Islamic guys in the lake (I suspect most Muslim guys don’t fish, so the dam threat probably was bogus).

That is where your money is going and why the Super Committee is having so many problems. They need to buy thousands of boats each year for small towns around America to hunt down drunk boaters.