[yank in the UK]

They are just kidding

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Sounds like our government is creeping into our cities under the guise of free stuff to communities. It’s so much easier for SWAT teams to kill dogs with bazookas now.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The police need to be reminded of the following:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed..."

Then add to that the history lesson of the French Revolution.

The rank and file of cops should be telling the leadership that they are there for the people and not the political elite. Otherwise they will get swept up in the maelstorm themselves when all hell breaks loose.

[nathanbedford]

This administration has a peculiar attitude about the dissemination of weapons. Fast and Furious demonstrates that it is cavalier at best and Machiavellian at worst in its policy of providing weapons to murderers and drug dealers without any supervision whatsoever.

It's issuance of weapons to municipalities under this program reveals a mindset that says that weapons themselves are not to be controlled but their dissemination is to be encouraged at least to municipalities-and, of course, Mexican drug lords.

Yet it is the availability of weapons to honest and law-abiding citizens that the administration objects to. As part of its objection it points out the danger inherent in possessing and bearing arms. For drug dealers to possess these weapons is evidently without risk. For the state to possess the weapons, or least for municipalities to possess the weapons, is equally without risk. Therefore I must conclude that it is not the weapons which present the risk but the honest, law-abiding citizens who represent risk.

Does this betray a collectivist mentality? A statist mentality? A schizophrenic mental state?

[Loyal Sedition]

Where is our share?

WE paid for them once already, where do I, as a citizen, sign up for my “Mini-tank”?

And Bazooka, M-16, Comm gear, Hummer, etc.?

[Carbonsteel]

Posse Commitatus doesn’t mean sh!t to this administration.

I

[prolusion]

Paging Officer Harles.

[Cap'n Crunch]

From the article:

In addition to tanks, M-16 rifles, bulletproof vests, helmets, chemical and biological gas masks, military vehicles, and computers, one Ohio police department got a free helicopter and another received a grenade launcher that fires tear gas canisters.

Tanks? No, I haven’t seen any tanks but I have seen some very old armored vehicles. Bulletproof vests? Most departments issue those. Helmets? Gas masks? Helicopters?

This has been going on for years, under the “Northstar” program. Our dept. was given about a dozen M-16’s. The barrels were so worn out they might as well have been shotguns. All of this stuff is surplus, it’s worn out.

The Dept. of Homeland Security has been giving police dept.’s better ‘stuff’ than what the Northstar program has avialable, that’s where you folks should be watching.

Also keep an eye on the IACP, International Assoc. of Chief’s of Police; very liberal organization. Anti 2nd. Obama sat on a board of one of their affiliates.

[camle]

I WANNA MINI-TANK!!!!