[kiryandil]

Really, how many of us have ever seen cops armed with the equipment we are seeing in these photos?

Ummmm - you have to stop reading Obama's Palace Guard media.

I go to the Brit paper websites. They don't get the memo to "suppress" photos of the militarized American police.

I've been posting Pretend Sojer photos on FR for a year or two now.

[JRandomFreeper]

Naiveté is cute, but expensive.

Hundreds of millions of dollars of military surplus is being transferred to local PDs, and some folks don't want to recognize that.

/johnny

[Yogafist]

Yeah, that means absolutely nothing. The internet has made national, and international news local. A cop in Philly does something wrong, then a cop in Atlanta does something wrong, and finally a cop in Phoenix does something wrong, and Free Republic goes wild about the the chronic misbehavior of cops. All the while forgetting there are around 800,000 cops in the U.S. I really don’t care if you can pull up a photo of cops responding to some incident in another part of the country, how many times have you seen your local police use that type of equipment?