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The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US
Business Insider ^ | 12/5/2011 | Robert Johnson

Posted on 12/08/2011 8:32:00 AM PST by Just4Him

The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will. We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up and it turns out a lot of these weapons are going straight to American police forces to be used against US citizens. Benjamin Carlson at The Daily reports on a little known endeavor called the "1033 Program" that gave more than $500 million of military gear to U.S. police forces in 2011 alone. 1033 was passed by Congress in 1997 to help law-enforcement fight terrorism and drugs, but despite a 40-year low in violent crime, police are snapping up hardware like never before. While this year's staggering take topped the charts, next year's orders are up 400 percent over the same period.

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To: WayneS; Celerity

It was an outfit called MOVE. The Philly cops managed to do almost a million in damage IIRC.


41 posted on 12/08/2011 12:41:45 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: ZULU
I don't.
They will find enough troops to do what ever they want to do.

Military follows orders. That is what they do. If they frame the orders the right way, you will get enough volunteers to take out NYC.

For instance, tell the troops that a massive virus outbreak has started, and they have take out the infected.

42 posted on 12/08/2011 1:14:15 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: bamahead; rabscuttle385; SunkenCiv; Travis McGee

Ping


43 posted on 12/08/2011 1:14:44 PM PST by EdReform (Oath Keepers - Guardians of the Republic - Honor your oath - Join us: www.oathkeepers.org)
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To: redgolum

“If they frame the orders the right way, you will get enough volunteers to take out NYC.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Now THAT might not be a bda idea!!!


44 posted on 12/08/2011 1:20:15 PM PST by ZULU (Anybody but Romney or Huntsman)
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To: EdReform; Eaker; afnamvet; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; An Old Man; APatientMan; ApesForEvolution; aragorn; ..
CW2 Ping


45 posted on 12/08/2011 1:21:48 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: arrdon

‘cuz you won’t be a hunter.
You’ll be the hunted.


46 posted on 12/08/2011 1:26:33 PM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Just4Him

THIS will not end well.


47 posted on 12/08/2011 1:28:54 PM PST by Never on my watch (WTF happened to my country?)
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To: Travis McGee

Heck, I feel safer already. *sarcasm


48 posted on 12/08/2011 1:42:57 PM PST by stockpirate (Our republican leadership are all part of the left-wing fascist new world order movement.)
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To: Just4Him

top down...
bottom up...
inside out...

This is the piece that ends all of the above.


49 posted on 12/08/2011 1:46:34 PM PST by yantis
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To: Travis McGee

Up.


50 posted on 12/08/2011 1:55:23 PM PST by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: Travis McGee
My favorite is still this guy:


51 posted on 12/08/2011 1:57:34 PM PST by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: Travis McGee

At least we’ll know where the “armory” is. :)


52 posted on 12/08/2011 1:59:04 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: WayneS
That's how I remember it, anyway.

That's pretty much it except for the part where the police came with a fully auto Ma Duece and used the suppressing fire to keep the people in the house, where I believe 11 men, women and children were burned alive.

53 posted on 12/08/2011 2:11:40 PM PST by JrsyJack (a healthy dose of buckshot will probably get you the last word in any argument.)
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To: Logical me

With the current Muslim Invader-in-Chief in charge for another year, possibly five, I am not in favor of the Pentagon giving ANY LEA any weapons beyond the cork and string popgun kind. As far as I’m concerned at this point, this government is our enemy.


54 posted on 12/08/2011 2:16:52 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: Just4Him
1033 was passed by Congress in 1997 to help law-enforcement fight terrorism and drugs...

And which party controlled Congress in 1997...?

55 posted on 12/08/2011 2:38:15 PM PST by Ken H (Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
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To: Just4Him
Old news by about --- ummmm all the way back to the Clinton White House?
56 posted on 12/08/2011 2:41:26 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil: It has no point.")
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To: Logical me
grenade launchers. Any idea what is comming?
Tear Gas. Cops use grenade launchers for these. They don't chuck the canisters.
57 posted on 12/08/2011 2:42:18 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Thermalseeker
Sounds like they are anticipating massive civil unrest. Obama recently signed EO’s that allow him to seize control of all roads, waterways, rail roads, telecom infrastructure, the air traffic control system, water works, power companies, pipelines, etc., pretty much everything necessary to bring the entire country to a screeching halt at the flip of a switch.

There has been an effort to militarize local police departments that goes back well before Obama. It really took off under Clinton, and God only knows what all was handed out in the wake of 9/11, but it was a lot.
58 posted on 12/08/2011 2:56:01 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: Travis McGee

Thanks for the ping. Kudos on your books getting out there; Burn Notice and the reviewing site.


59 posted on 12/08/2011 3:28:36 PM PST by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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To: WayneS

I am the newly elected Sheriff of the small town of WayneSburg, Virginia (Pop. 3).

How can I get some of this equipment?


The police chief in the town next to me asked the town council to let him order a bunch of machinee guns for his troops.

This is mid-coast Maine. The town has a population of 7,000.


60 posted on 12/08/2011 3:32:55 PM PST by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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