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Why Would Police Need This Unstoppable Military Vehicle?
Western Journalism ^ | Apr 7, 2014 | B. Christopher Agee

Posted on 04/07/2014 10:02:18 PM PDT by Ray76

Residents of Saginaw County, Mich. could soon find themselves confronted by a behemoth best suited for the war-torn streets of Afghanistan. According to Sheriff William Federspiel, his department recently obtained a Mine Resistant Ambush Proof (MRAP) vehicle straight from the U.S. Army.

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KEYWORDS: mrap; policestate
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To: Carl from Marietta; Jim Robinson; darkwing104; Old Sarge; Kathy in Alaska

Even better.
Carl doubles down on it in post 37!
“ You were a mercenary and trade off of that fact with your screen name, and from that expect, (and this is the worst part)get attaboys for doing what you expected to be paid for. Nothing special at all.”

We’re mercenaries too!
Party at his place.
Pay from koch brothers to usual accounts. / kidding.


41 posted on 04/08/2014 12:25:41 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Koch brothers? Don’t you mean George Soros or Alex Jones?


42 posted on 04/08/2014 12:28:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not certain with this clown, actually.
It might be bunnies for all I know.


43 posted on 04/08/2014 12:31:06 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Darksheare

Yeah, that $397 dollars a month sure bought a lot of bling.

http://www.navycs.com/charts/1978-military-pay-chart.html


44 posted on 04/08/2014 12:31:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Darksheare

Watch yourself! He’s the second oldest FReeper after the site owner.


45 posted on 04/08/2014 12:32:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Doesn’t matter.
Knock servicemen and servicemembers, openly state hatred for us, get the ire of the dragon.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3141944/posts?page=34#34
(Openly stated hatred for the military is there..)


46 posted on 04/08/2014 12:35:51 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: coloradan

Even trying to read it strictly I have a hard time seeing it to mean surplused materiel rather than personnel.

Still it’s all about egos now, something that God explicitly will NOT bless. And really earnest crooks will probably find ways to hinder such equipment. Just out of spite. Smokey and some very evil bandits.


47 posted on 04/08/2014 12:38:55 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That was when our pay came from squirrels.
They’re notoriously cheap!


48 posted on 04/08/2014 12:39:52 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Carl from Marietta

So you dislike us almost 25 million vets, you sound like quite a guy.


49 posted on 04/08/2014 12:43:38 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: JPX2011

The last time I checked there were about 25 million of us veterans, not many of us are cops.


50 posted on 04/08/2014 12:45:29 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: Carl from Marietta
Show me one post in my VERY LONG posting history where I ask for praise because I served in the Army. I'll wait...

I chose this screen name because I am proud of my service in one of the nation's finest units, an outfit that guards our Korean allies from attack by communist forces. An outfit that rewarded my work with several medals for my superior service in keeping track of an entire frontline DPRK ("North Korean") Corps when I was 21. And that was just one assignment among many. What have you done that comes close to that?

51 posted on 04/08/2014 12:48:21 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: null and void
Seems the Mooselimb Brotherhood was not quite subdued. The wogs gave the heavy hardware the heave-ho! And gravity was not its friend!



Israel would have used different strategy.

52 posted on 04/08/2014 12:49:59 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

Well golly! Don’t think I can heave ho an MRAP I guess I’ll just have to pick up some discounted RPG’s at the next gun show with my ‘gun show loophole’ card /s.


53 posted on 04/08/2014 12:58:55 AM PDT by JPX2011
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To: JPX2011; null and void
I guess the lesson is, armor has its limits!

Story to go with photos.

54 posted on 04/08/2014 1:07:44 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Carl from Marietta

” What have you done that comes close to that?”

For Carl, that’s easy: talk smack to servicemembers online, call us mercenaries, call us dog killers, state an open hatred for us, sneer at us, then run off like brave sir robin.
Perhaps he’d like to clarify his position?
Or maybe apologize for his inadvised broad brush smear.


55 posted on 04/08/2014 1:36:31 AM PDT by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: Ray76

Just because the vehicle survives with the cabin intact doesn’t mean the occupants have not been hurt. A HE blast will produce shock waves that can severely scramble the insides of a human body.


56 posted on 04/08/2014 2:52:10 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: ansel12
Used military vehicles of this type are only good for one thing and we all know what that is, resisting or attacking the masses.

Military vehicles of another type, be they large or small trucks for example, DO HAVE a place in our cities, counties and states. The Wisconsin county I live in has been purchasing these “used” vehicles for specific purposes such as road building and repair, excavating and numerous other tasks which the vehicles have been specifically designed for. At the price of these so-called used (but almost brand new) vehicles, purchasing the equipment is MUST LESS COSTLY to the tax payers, thus saving money for other badly needed projects elsewhere.

57 posted on 04/08/2014 2:53:24 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Ray76

MRAP’s are not unstoppable. You just need to know where to hit them.


58 posted on 04/08/2014 3:21:47 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: Cyber Liberty

Got a radiator too!


59 posted on 04/08/2014 3:29:20 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: goldstategop

Putin has plenty of Heavy vehicles for his puppets. No need...


60 posted on 04/08/2014 3:34:37 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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