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An Iowa City With A Population Of 7,000 Will Receive Armored Military Vehicle
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
I’ve covered the militarization of the domestic police force on several occasions on this website. For those of you who need a refresher, I suggest reading the following:
There are Over 50,000 SWAT Team Raids Annually in America
Retired Marine Colonel to New Hampshire City Council: “We’re Building a Domestic Army”
Video of the Day – Thuggish Militarized Police Terrorize and SWAT Team Iowa Family.
Moving along to the subject of today’s absurdity, the tiny city of Washington, Iowa with a population of 7,000 and 11 police officers, will be receiving a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle. Yes, they will be employing one of these in the field:
These things normally cosy $500,000, but will be given to Washington, Iowa for free under a Defense Department program that gives surplus military equipment to domestic law enforcement.
Matthew Byrd writes in the Daily Iowan that:
Sometimes the news is just so drearily awful that you have to sit back and almost appreciate the pure comedy induced by it.
Take this item from Washington, Iowa, where the local police have recently acquired an MRAP vehicle (short for Mine Resistance Ambush Protected) through a Defense Department program that donates excess vehicles originally produced for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to local police departments across the United States, including other Iowa towns such as Mason City and Storm Lake.
The MRAP weighs an impressive 49,000 pounds, stands 10-feet tall, and possesses a whopping six-wheel drive. Originally designed to resist landmines and IEDs, it sure seems like the MRAP will come in handy for the notorious war zone otherwise known as Washington County, Iowa.
If you’re having a bad day, I highly recommend watching a video produced by the Des Moines Register in which Washington police officials try to justify the possession of a vehicle it clearly has no use for. The excuses range from school shootings (which are an actual concern but an MRAP seems like overkill) to a terrorist attack happening in central Iowa (because if there’s any place that seems ripe for a high-profile terrorist attack it’s Washington, Iowa, population 7,000).
As Radley Balko, the author of the book The Rise of the Warrior Cop, an expose of the police militarization of the last decade, found, in 2006 alone the Pentagon, “distributed vehicles worth $15.4 million, aircraft worth $8.9 million, boats worth $6.7 million, weapons worth $1 million and “other” items worth $110.6 million to local police agencies.”
The effects of cops moving from handguns to assault rifles and being equipped with tanks, bazookas, and Kevlar has been twofold. First, civil liberties have absolutely been eroded, with police-brutality rates skyrocketing in last decade according to the Justice Department. Not only that, but, with the influx of military gear into local police forces, cops begin to view themselves as soldiers whose main job is combat rather than keeping the peace. How else can you explain the rise in police shootings since 9/11?
USA! USA! USA!
Keep chanting like idiots until one of these rolls up to your doorstep.
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They did not dare donate it to Chicago. By the time the driver turned off the engine, and walked across the street to the donut shop, that thing would have been on blocks and any parts not well welded on, would have been on Ebay!!!
Citizens of Washington, IA should capture it as an enemy asset.
They will eventually.
And it is conveniently per positioned for citizen acquisition when needed.
Obviously the buildup of armed domestic forces is happening in preparation when SNAP and EBT stop working or aren't sufficiently funded. That day is coming.
The question for citizens who aren't going to just sit and take it in the ass from government is, how quickly can groups of armed citizens seize vehicles like these to equip the resistence. Doesn't take much training to operate the vehicles and there's probably a number of vets eager to assist and defend the country from fascist government takeover.
I'm actually surprised this equipment is visible and within reach of an armed citizen revolt. But for now, let the officials bask in their glory and deliver these vehicles into every little town across the States. We will thank them later.
11 small town police cannot maintain control of that MRAP. If they don't give it to the patriots on the sly, it will just be taken by force if the American Spring ever happens.
Maybe im late..or not payin too much attention. .or both..but did that say 6 wheel drive?..when the vehicle pictured has 4 wheels..?..new math? .
Ill read the rest now.
This monstrosity will be in every parade that po-dunk town has. Intimidation 101.
Good for the conomy, we need moar.
Does anyone think this location is an accident? I think DHS has a map of the ~3M preppers in the USA and are positioning these vehicles near concentrations. I am physically sick about the implications of this.
Domestic controol my a$$. Just the larded over explosion in DOD spending from 10+ years of continuous war. Stuff we can't/won't sell and thus the DOD has to basically give it away or destroy it.
DOD still hasn't produced a certified external audit in over 20 years and the amounts of surplus military gear being given away domestically is a drop in the bucket to the billions that was stolen outright/pass-through theft.
it is about breaking and steering. Those systems are either air or hydraulic. Bust a pipe or hose and that thing cannot be driven.
(only breaking the steering)? or (both breaking the braking and breaking the steering)?
Betcha they auction it off to the drug dealers to raise cash for their cash strapped town.
Article 3, Section 3 of the Constituion says:
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them..."
The American people's first and foremost weapon is to just quit paying, Let them try to maintain their house of cards ponzi without the stolen labor and wealth of their victims, the American people. They can't. And if one understands how the fraudulent-reserve banks work, they will realize that they stole the money they "loaned" you in the first place.
Then just quit paying, obeying and playing.
The Four Rs
Rejection: Quit paying, quit obeying, quit playing.
Revolution: It is inevitable, so prepare, as they are.
Retribution: Is there really any place for these sociopaths and criminals in a
restored civil and Constitutional society?!
Restoration: Restore the Constitutional republic.
karma?
now americans get to experience the life the average afghani or iraqi since 2001 - 2003...
Why should they have all the fun?
Define surplus. That looks like a brand new vehicle.
A trillion here, a trillion there. Half a million is a rounging error.
Surplus is what you need to get rid of pronto so you can create more jobs! KBR would burn a brand new truck in Iraq if it burst a tire. And that means more jobs for Americans.
Maybe it can be used to
replant GMO corn with wheat.
Non-GMO corn would likely
get overrun.
Just in case someone might
get nervous about eating
fish, they'll need something
to eat.
If they bought the equipment
out of a sense of fear and need
for control, maybe it'll occur
to them that increasing numbers
of people won't want this.
For them that could mean
poverty.
Here's poverty.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/02/1404293111
(Social Environment, Particularly Poverty
Measures,Linked To
Telomere Length (Chromosome Durability.)
Endocrinologically Defined Personal (Genetic)
Sensitivity Is Consistently, Reliably Demonstrated)
What Ghandi said:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/mahatmagan150720.html
It's truly remarkable who some
people think are weak and who're
strong. To some Ghandi might've
appeared weak believe it or not.
I wouldn't think so.
No intimations as to
cause and effect--just
linking informationally.
(By-product)
http://pages.citebite.com/x1s8h0n0e8ksr
http://www.dw.de/pesticide-illness-triggers-anti-monsanto-protest-in-arg...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Weill+and+leaky+gut+syndrome+for+you+to+correl...
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pigs%20stomachs%20gmos%20australia&kl=us-en&kd=-1
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/video/2519/cfs-videos/ge-food
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sheep+goats+buffalo+gmo%27s+india
I'm clueless as to underlying facts:
http://the-secret-to-success.org/2013/03/livestock-farmers-using-gmo-gra...
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-very-real-danger-o...
http://www.nature.com/cr/journal/v22/n1/full/cr2011158a.html
Amer. Academy of Env. Med.
http://pages.citebite.com/a2r1f8f7f6gei
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/311/#
http://responsibletechnology.org/glutenintroduction
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA361058/what-is-leaky-gut.html
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/11/2/2125
The influence of the gut population
on the rest of the body, including
pathic, and of leaky gut, is currently
an area just recently exploded in interest
and work.
it's all about preparations to mitigate new threats to national security emanating from this:
http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/carbon-dioxide-highest-levels-global-warm...
because aurora:
Here's one graph you won't list.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_March_20...
No statistically significant global warming for 17 years yet annual human emitted carbon dioxide emmissions are up 60% during that same period.
Hmmmmm....
Anyway odds are stacking up in favor of an El Nino developing a bit later this year. Could be a big one so you better get some champaign to celebrate. The party probably won't last too long however. We are on the slippery slope down sc24 and predictions for sc25 are a complete bust.
sign of narrow mind. you're thinking linearly in both time and relationship.
When the Earth comes out of an ice age, the warming is not initiated by CO2 but by changes in the Earth's orbit. The warming causes the oceans to release CO2. TheCO2 amplifies the warming and mixes through the atmosphere, spreading warming throughout the planet. So CO2 causes warming AND rising temperature causes CO2 rise. Overall, about 90% of the global warming occurs after the CO2 increase.
serious question: how will the planetary ecosystem evolve given the unprecedented rate of change in C02 increase in the last 100-200 years?
consider that question in context of a planet with a population of 8+ billion people, at least 40% of which live within 100 km of coastlines, and sustained/increasing reliance on carbon-based energy sources.
and let's not forget the other forms of life on this planet...
solutions to mitigate the damage:
A much simpler solution would be to depopulate.
Once they start shutting off all dirty coal power plants in China and stop driving there, I just might pay attention. Until that day, it matters sweet fuck all what we do here or anywhere else. The crisis should happen in China but it won't.
americans are 2nd highest (behind australia) in per capita CO2 emissions. 5% of world population consuming 25% of the world's produced energy.
the only reason why china has the coal plants is due to the fact that americans exported their mass-consumer production capacities there.
supply side economics fail.
demand will be managed if humanity has any self-discipline left.
By the way, in Egypt last year it became general knowledge that these tanks/APCs are easily defeated by molotov cocktails and gravity, as in pushed off a bridge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pIjK32ts1k
In the immortal words of a cocksucker, "Bring it on."
Actually the fucker was never pushed off the overpass, they drove over the side themselves running from protesters.
Either way, "bottoms up" with the molotov cocktails.
Fuel consumption and maintenance would be a budget buster for a town of 7,000. I would love to speak at City Council meeting about this--I'm sure many will. It' not like farmers don't understand such things.
Presumably they can just auction them on ebay for those who want to trade up from their Humvees.
Alternatively the ultimate prepper kit.
MRAP vehicles in small town police departments will make tasty Scooby snacks for the patriots and three per centers when the time comes.
Sometimes I wonder if a secret patriot is behind passing out all these armored vehicles to small towns.
Consider these secret gifts to the revolution lol. 11 police cannot maintain control of en MRAP in case of rebelliom
The town of Waller, Tx, population 2,365 in 2012 has had one of those for over a year. The town of Conroe, Tx, populaton 61,533 was the first town in the country to get (and crash) a drone. Texas is ready for something.
Interesting. And just what are the local pigs gonna do with their new toy. What I see here is a turtle shell. Sooner or later, someone is going to have to stick their heads out. Thats when u hitem. Right between the eyes from about 300 yards with the .06.
Civil war in this fucked up country is just around the corner. You want proof? Well there it is.
The antidote is glass jars of paint. Throw them at the windows and they can't see.
WTF? And why not to the local militia? I understood the US had a National Guard,
That is so pre-911. It has far too many letters in it: National Guard!!! Now you need just 3 ...HLD, TSA, NSA.... etc
How far behind can the fully equipped drones be?
49,000 pound vehicle - go long iowa city road repair companies....
Bridges - don't forget the bridges.
The only thing about this that make me chuckle is the idea that there is not one person within a hundred miles that can service this thing.
I noticed in the video that there were lots of electronics in the cab and I am sure that the diesel engine isn't exactly standard.
"Hey Bubba, what do you know about military grade vehicle electronics and diesel engines?!"
If I know Iowa the townsfolk will park it in the local schoolyard and let the kids play in it for years.
They will park it next to the firetruck, the volunteers use, in a building that is never locked. Hell there aren't even locks on the door.
The Beatles-Magical Mystery Tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnrsqf33MXA (2:49)
Magical Mystery Tour (Lennon/McCartney)
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up AND THAT'S AN INVITATION, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, roll up for the mystery tour.
The magical mystery tour is waiting to take you away,
Waiting to take you away.
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING YOU NEED, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, roll up for the mystery tour.
The magical mystery tour is hoping to take you away,
Hoping to take you away.
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up AND THAT'S AN INVITATION, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, roll up for the mystery tour.
The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away,
Coming to take you away.
The magical mystery tour is dying to take you away,
Dying to take you away, take you away.
Great song and album. Bad movie
The Beatles - Across The Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN9n1bAahg4 (3:44)
If this would have been done under Bush, MSM would have had a ball for a week with it.
Yea GO USA!
LOL
Kchrisc: "The only thing about this that make me chuckle is the idea that there is not one person within a hundred miles that can service this thing."
One Moltov cocktail on the rubber tires makes me chuckle. Then it's just a waiting game. Like shootin' fish comin' outta a barrel.
fire on the tire will not stop it.
In short order these leaden beasts will be stuck in ditches, mud, irrigation canals. Zeke's Towing will be unable to move them. Ten years on, stripped, will be used as super cool forts. Eventually somebody will come with a cutting torch. In a two hundred years, a dark rusty vein will be mistaken as iron ore by a mutant band wondering how we made steel.
Those small-town perpetrators with overdue library books can be dangerous.....
A chinese had the balls to stand in front of a tank in '89, in Tiananmen Square. Will an American have the balls to stand in front of that hog, in Washington, IA?
That is the question!
What in tarnation in an Iowa town of 7,000 could justify the need for a miltary vehicle?
Besides that whole "imintent police state thing where the constitution is suspended and martial law is imposed?"
hahahaha, they will have to let 1/2 of the force go to pay for fuel and maintenance!
great move there, chief.
Tool.
It will be used for delivering "Meals on Wheels" to senior citizens - "Your meals will be delivered 100% of the time, bitchez"...
Hell. Our town near where I live is smaller than 7,000 and our local police have their own 'RV' too.
Every now and then, they like to get all dressed up with automatic weapons and raid properties in search of prohibited dried plants and such. Makes for great headlines in the local "newspapers".
Someone in your family gets harmed, don't forget to return the favor. After all, you can't be in two places at once, can ya?
For those who haven't been to that part of Iowa.
I think the last crime there was that fraud caper pulled off by that Music Man guy who said he was part of the Gary Conservatory of of Music Class of '03 when everyone know it wasn't open to '04.
Go watch the Music Man. Iowa is still like that . They just do not DO crime in that part of Iowa. Apple Pie socials -- yep. County Fairs -- yep.
Crime not so much. I am not in favor of sending this monstrosity anywhere, but it is a total waste in Iowa.
76 MRAPs led the big parade...
Next thing you know, pool hall.
Tyranny - with a capital "T".
In recent years, Chicago initiated a program in which they started shipping all of their people in the projects out to small Midwest towns in order to "give them a seocnd chance" and "increase diversity." Makes me wonder if Washington got hit by that program at all.
Regardless, this thing will not be supportable long term.
The townsfolk need to tell these Barney Fifes that they get to keep their MRAP when they agree to pay for every penney of it out of their own salaries and pensions.
Next thing you know, they'll all be asking for a second bullet to keep buttoned in their shirt pockets.
It'll make a great snowplow.
Call in an atm theft, 2 fires, have the fire department and the police department scattered hither and yon, and you can have your mrap for free.
Let's all thank the defense department for arming the revolution at no cost to those who will need it most.
Thanks a million, no, a billion, no a trillion.
Thanks a trillion.
Exactly! just think for 1 minute of how fast we the people can completly overwhelm them if we plan and organize!
Just like you said, have a whole bunch of distractions happening at the same time, this will spread them out and the massacure will take place.
These police and especially the corrupt Politicians (which menas all of them) should go through out the streets aevery day thanking us for not overthrowing them! especially because remember this GOV'S DON'T OWN ANYTHING, EVERYTHING THEY HAVE THEY HAVE TAKEN FROM THE PEOPLE!
Why do we all allow them to use the money they steal from us, and waste it on such foolish devices and policies.
PEOPLE WAKE UP WE ARE THEIR POWER!
What goes arround, comes arround. Enjoy the fruits of seeds spewed all over the world.
Bullish!
With all these tanks going to police departments, I think it is well past time to go long BP and Exxon.
1. Wait until the taxpayers have to shell (no pun intended) out for the upkeep and maintenance costs associated with this.
2. Wait until the taxpayers have to pay for the repair costs of property being run over with this tank.
3. Wait until a school sgooting occurs and the cops caus more deaths with this tank than the shooter/cutlery specialiast could do alone.
4. Wait until the dollar implodes and they find it only goes 7 MPG at $25/gallon.
5. I think they should paint it pink to show they are a kinder, gentler police department dedicated to protect and serve!.
Please add onto this list!
Yeah, but its a cool toy, who is going to say no to receiving on of these, I have no use for one either but I would not say no if I was given one.
If shit hits the fan in the streets, tell me how many people/police can fit into this thing, for so called protection! It looks like it has inflatable tires, Hmm shoot them out, I would hardly think that the radiator is protected from bullets either, funny how a vehicle does not run for very long without any cooling system.
The funny thing about all of this is, if SHTF the police will be so out numbered it's nuts, then think about the reality, these cops should be running for the hills, oh wait they will probably run home first to get their families! and they wont be getting a paycheque anymore either so why would 15 police in a town of 7000 not run!
With over 200 million guns in america I think the police will have a tough time keeping order, and they know it, or they should!
All the municipality has to do is say: "No, thanks!" Just goes to show you what your local elected officials are worth, not a squirt of piss!
Auggggh! Come on! I'd piss on them twice, just to be sure.
They got cheated! Somebody stole the howitzer from on top. I'd return it and ask for another one, but fully equipped. Really, I think that all Sheriffs and Police Depts that can claim a majority of officers are Oathkeepers should get two or three of these.
"Underneath, it's a hyper-alloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored; very tough." -Kyle Reese
MIght as well sell those thigns to your enemies and profit from it.
Yeah the maintainence will break them. The local popos have noo idea how expensive this shit is to run and maintain. This will be sitting in a playground in 5 years!
It's a really simple thought experiment.
Where are these types of vehicles typically used? Why are these vehicles being provided to local police forces?
Beause they expect local police forces to operate in an environment which requires these types of vehicles. They expect your local environment to turn into a war zone.
It's really simple logic.
Surplus vehicles? So sell them + give the taxpayers a refund! Or raffle them off to taxpayers!
They cost $1,200,000.00 each (and the state is still buying more) They get 1.5 MPG
And don't forget the DHS buying up 1.5 Billion rounds of ammunition...using tax dollars or printed dollars that add to the debt that these criminals are trying to force Americans to pay for. But the ammunition shortage caused by DHS and the rest of the Feds drives up prices for what's left over for the public to purchase. Basically a double-whammy infationary tax/fee/whatever.
And don't forget the "Shoot First Targets" DHS purchased to train with in order to acclimate themselves to shooting elderly people, pregnant women, little children: http://www.infowars.com/dhs-supplier-provides-shooting-targets-of-american-gun-owners/
And don't forget the DHS and FBI localized "Threat Fusion Centers" designed to turn citizens against each other and to create spies and snitches out of your neighbors: http://www.infowars.com/fusion-centers-are-designed-to-spy-on-the-american-people/
They're turning America into another fucking Nazi Germany.
And how about training boyscouts as a domestic army to fight and disarm Americans? http://www.infowars.com/boy-scouts-train-to-become-homeland-gestapo/
Brainwashing kids to rat out their parents. Pretty sick shit, huh? Get your kids away from anything to do with the government...that should be rule number one. And that includes the school system. Homeschool them if possible or at least undo the damage the school system tries to inflict on them once they get home and teach them what's really going on right now so that they're armed with the truth and can think clearly and critically when they have to sit in front of the Common Core loser teachers who just want to feed them bullshit and Marxism.
And how about the FEMA camps? Oh, but they'll say there's no such thing as FEMA camps and call you a liar. You want to know what? Because THEY don't specifically call them "FEMA camps". It's just a semantical word game with these sociopaths. They're officially called National Emergency Centers. Big fucking deal. Whatever they want to call them...Unicorn farms with skittles and rainbows...they're still designed to hold Americans in prison camps.
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/02/06/rex-84-fema-camps-and-the-threat-of-martial-law-didnt-start-with-obama/
http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/fusion-centers-fema-camps-and-martial-law-conspiracy-fact-or-theory_12042010
it goes on and on and on with these fuckers and they've been planning this shit for decades.
Backs up nicely as an emergency stuck-combine-in-the-cornfield removal device. SCCRD.
Stone Temple Pilots - Meatplow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XvhSuFhKtE (3:37)
Local PB motorcycles make The Terminator look like a homo
MURICA! FUCK YEAH!
It sounds like it's time for the citizens of this Iowa City to plant more powerful landmines and IEDs, LOL.
But seriously, expect more and larger potholes!
Lakecity55: "fire on the tire will not stop it."
Please explain how this 40K+ pound piece of shit will run anywhere on two flats.
Lets see them Duke boyz get away this time
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Lets see them Duke boyz get away this time
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What happens to a vehicle engineered for the desert when it hits a big patch of ice in Iowa?
What gender is the driver?
You get some balloons and fill them with paint
You decorate the windows of those killing machines w/ said paint filled balloons (Just like when we were kids bombing passing vehicles).
You await the filthy stormtroopers exit from their killing machines
It worked for the Afghans ...
If the townspeople were clever, they would sell that ridiculous pos on Craig's List and spend the proceeds on silver. A real reserve stack for the town against a rainy day.
Since that would be deemed 'anti-social' they could use it to hire some local folks to follow the cops around with cameras.
That would be priceless.
EFP will punch right through that.
on the up side, DHS is deploying their armor assets like the french in the late 1930's. piecemeal and dispersed. start really getting worried when you start hearing about homeland "emergency reaction forces" being organized on battalion or brigade level.
only fools and martyrs go full frontal. go for the motor pools, supply depots, and assembly areas. or better yet, the donors funding the politicians who sent them. remember, almost all wars are economic based. you have got to COST them way more then its worth.
Those Iowa farm boys can get pretty rowdy on a Saturday night.
Wait til the locals use this vehicle to fight off the DHS.
That will really piss off the feds.