Posted on 08/22/2014 8:38:56 AM PDT by drypowder
We are on a bad path and we need to stop before it goes too far. Our government agencies have become rogue governments-within-a-government, they are now arming themselves and our domestic police forces. At the same time, Mr. Obama is decimating the military.
The Business Insider reported that 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.
The program Paul is talking about is the Pentagons little known 1033 program authorized under section 1033 of the 1997 National Defense Authorization Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at independentsentinel.com ...
I'm so damn frustrated, and FR seems the only time I can fully express what I know to be the truth with the possibility that someone will get it. At least I can't hear anyone telling me to shut up.
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When are average Pubbie voters going to figure that out? Uh, and a few FReepers, too.
Never would. It needs to be said. Loudly and often.
Now, said equipment is no longer thousands of miles away and heavily guarded.
No, it is delivered and hand carried to a neighborhood near by, with boxes and boxes of attachments, and other bells and whistles.
Great term. My wife will laugh at that.
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