I’m not cheering this.
That equipment will be used against us.
I’ll relate this story. Where I grew up....there’s a small town that has a one-cop situation. One night, the mayor comes around on a dirt road in the community and here is the cop doing some kind of surveillance episode (this is southern Tennessee), and he’s got night-goggles. Well...the city had never purchased a pair for the guy.
Questions got raised. It turns out that the cop had an account with the DoD....to get access to military hardware. Totally unknown by the city council or mayor. The cop was given grant-money, and actually deposited it into a personal account...then spent the money on the nigh-vision goggles via some Homeland Security episode.
Took about an hour for the city council to make a decision....ordering the guy to dump the goggles. They had to be sold via some federal account, to another law enforcement agency.
I suspect there are thousands of stories like that. No accountability on the part of the cops....they just walk around city council or mayor authority.
I share your discomfort. Attorneys General like Janet Reno and Eric Holder are too fresh in my mind. I've never been a cop hater, but having seen them stand with their thumbs up...while Trump supporters and conservatives get pummeled by rabid dog leftists have left me with a sense that they know what side their bread's buttered on. It answered my long held question about where I stand with them.
MRAPs are kinda a large overkill for police. What looks to be needed is about 100 updated DUCK’s based on the Gulf and E.Coast to be used in flooded areas. They would really help now in Houston, but they no longer really exist in the military. We had LARCs in VN..great for swim outings in Cam Rain Bay.
“I’m not cheering this. That equipment will be used against us.”
That’s why I oppose this too. I do not need President Trump to create Obama’s domestic military force so the next Democrat President can use them against conservatives and Christians.