The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US

Business Insider ^ | 12/5/2011 | Robert Johnson

[Just4Him]

The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will. 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. Benjamin Carlson at The Daily reports on a little known endeavor called the "1033 Program" that gave more than $500 million of military gear to U.S. police forces in 2011 alone. 1033 was passed by Congress in 1997 to help law-enforcement fight terrorism and drugs, but despite a 40-year low in violent crime, police are snapping up hardware like never before. While this year's staggering take topped the charts, next year's orders are up 400 percent over the same period.

[WayneS]

That would be the republicrats, I believe...

[WayneS]

That’s a lot of bacteria...

[Bringbackthedraft]

Nothing new, its been going on for years.

[Still Thinking]

While I agree that we are turning our policemen into soldiers, which is a very bad idea, I didn’t see anything other than normal crowd control tactics used against the OWS clowns.

Yeah, but they fall into the statists' "useful idiot" category. Wait till they feel the need to deal with some real Constitutionalists.