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Across America, Police Departments Are Quietly Preparing For War
At first blush, the title of this post could be perceived as somewhat hyperbolic by those who still have an impression of America's police departments as bastions of safety, designed "to protect and to serve" the population of the "land of the free." However, said impression would be promptly washed away upon reading an article in today's NYT which citing Pentagon data, reveals that under the Obama administration, "police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft."
Which begs the question: just who is America's police force, and by extension the Obama administration, which is behind this quiet militarization of local police forces with weapons that would normally be seen in a warzone, preparing for war against?
And while we already documented America's conversation to a turnkey totalitarian banana republic (confirmed over a year later by Edward Snowden), behold America's conversion to a police state:
In the past we have occasionally covered the slow (but sure) conversion of America's Police force into an army, fully loaded with the latest weapons and equipments, not even we had an idea of the full extent of what was going on behind the scenes. As the NYT describes, all of the above-mentioned equipment "has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units. Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of times each year, increasingly for routine jobs. Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of “barbering without a license.”
Surely in an age when the NSA managed to eradicated all terrorism (oh oops, Boston bombing, we forgot, just ignore that), the mantra that a "weapon unused is a useless weapon" has never rang more true, but dispatching crack police team to handle rogue "barbers"? Sadly, that may be just a harbinger of the crackdowns the US police state will unleash shortly on anyone even the least bit guilty of violating some law or regulation. Or maybe completely innocent, just guilty of sparking the USPD's curiosity.
Meet the new normal SWAT: new, improved and, well, everywhere:
The number of SWAT teams has skyrocketed since the 1980s, according to studies by Peter B. Kraska, an Eastern Kentucky University professor who has been researching the issue for decades.... The ubiquity of SWAT teams has changed not only the way officers look, but also the way departments view themselves. Recruiting videos feature clips of officers storming into homes with smoke grenades and firing automatic weapons. In Springdale, Ark., a police recruiting video is dominated by SWAT clips, including officers throwing a flash grenade into a house and creeping through a field in camouflage.
The rationale for the weaponization of the US police force is simple: it's yours if you want it. Also, it's free.
The Pentagon program does not push equipment onto local departments. The pace of transfers depends on how much unneeded equipment the military has, and how much the police request. Equipment that goes unclaimed typically is destroyed. So police chiefs say their choice is often easy: Ask for free equipment that would otherwise be scrapped, or look for money in their budgets to prepare for an unlikely scenario. Most people understand, police officers say.
In the meantime, this is where the build up has come from...
Congress created the military-transfer program in the early 1990s, when violent crime plagued America’s cities and the police felt outgunned by drug gangs. Today, crime has fallen to its lowest levels in a generation, the wars have wound down, and despite current fears, the number of domestic terrorist attacks has declined sharply from the 1960s and 1970s.
Police departments, though, are adding more firepower and military gear than ever. Some, especially in larger cities, have used federal grant money to buy armored cars and other tactical gear. And the free surplus program remains a favorite of many police chiefs who say they could otherwise not afford such equipment. Chief Wilkinson said he expects the police to use the new truck rarely, when the department’s SWAT team faces an armed standoff or serves a warrant on someone believed to be dangerous.
Today, Chief Wilkinson said, the police are trained to move in and save lives during a shooting or standoff, in contrast to a generation ago — before the Columbine High School massacre and others that followed it — when they responded by setting up a perimeter and either negotiating with, or waiting out, the suspect.
... and where it is going.
In South Carolina, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department’s website features its SWAT team, dressed in black with guns drawn, flanking an armored vehicle that looks like a tank and has a mounted .50-caliber gun. Capt. Chris Cowan, a department spokesman, said the vehicle “allows the department to stay in step with the criminals who are arming themselves more heavily every day.” He said police officers had taken it to schools and community events, where it was a conversation starter.
Not everyone agrees that there is a need for such vehicles. Ronald E. Teachman, the police chief in South Bend, Ind., said he decided not to request a mine-resistant vehicle for his city. "I go to schools,” he said. “But I bring ‘Green Eggs and Ham.’ ”
The people are said to believe the explanation:
"When you explain that you’re preparing for something that may never happen, they get it,” said Capt. Tiger Parsons of the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office in northwest Missouri, which recently received a mine-resistant truck.
You mean like the Fed stepping back from propping the global capital markets? Or like Caesar taking over Rome and only then handing over the power to the people?
But however you explain it and whatever you call it, don't call it overkill, no pun intended. Actually call it overkill.
Pentagon data suggest how the police are arming themselves for such worst-case scenarios. Since 2006, the police in six states have received magazines that carry 100 rounds of M-16 ammunition, allowing officers to fire continuously for three times longer than normal. Twenty-two states obtained equipment to detect buried land mines.
In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.
“You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.’s and to defeat law enforcement techniques,” Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department told the local Fox affiliate, referring to improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs. Sergeant Downing did not return a message seeking comment.
The police in 38 states have received silencers, which soldiers use to muffle gunfire during raids and sniper attacks. Lauren Wild, the sheriff in rural Walsh County, N.D., said he saw no need for silencers. When told he had 40 of them for his county of 11,000 people, Sheriff Wild confirmed it with a colleague and said he would look into it. "I don’t recall approving them,” he said.
Funny how that happens. Because that's the whole point: if the police department is there to protect the people, shouldn't the people decide how the police is armed? Apparently not. Then again, the light bulb did go over some heads.
At the Neenah City Council, Mr. Pollnow is pushing for a requirement that the council vote on all equipment transfers. When he asks about the need for military equipment, he said the answer is always the same: It protects police officers.
“Who’s going to be against that? You’re against the police coming home safe at night?” he said. “But you can always present a worst-case scenario. You can use that as a framework to get anything.”
Chief Wilkinson said he was not interested in militarizing Neenah. But officers are shot, even in small towns. If there were an affordable way to protect his people without the new truck, he would do it.
“I hate having our community divided over a law enforcement issue like this. But we are,” he said. “It drives me to my knees in prayer for the safety of this community every day. And it convinced me that this was the right thing for our community.”
Great, absolutely. Now just open it up for a vote and le the community itself decide!
Which brings us back to the original question: as the NYT succinctly summarizes the situation, "as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice."
Perhaps that sentence needs some qualification: as Obama, humiliated on the international arena by everyone, from Assad to Putin and back, and desperately seeking to avoid future embarrassment, redeploys weapons of mass murder, why is he seeking to put said weapons - many of which are of the offensive kind - not out to pasture but in America's very own back yard? Just who does Obama plan to wage his next, and hopefully last, war against? The good news is that everyone will get sufficient advance notice before said war begins by the squadrons of weaponized drones sent out to test the ground, and inflict the "accidental" collateral damage casualty, or million.
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Do they still want us to buy big plastic sheets to cover windows & doors, buy duct tape, store food & water, and be prepared to shelter for a week.
OR DOES THAT GET US Flagged. I'm Confused.
How do we prepare according to Government Public Affairs Office for Terrorism in the USA.
At what point do we say "Wow, the Police are building up against terrorism... And we have to prepare ourselves in an orderly fashion without Getting Flagged, Detained, and Interrogated."
Admitting you have 1 week worth of food gets you on the turrist list.
Who watches television anymore?
Got a hunch this crowd just got thrown some red meat.
Himmler woulda loved all this shit !
" We don't want their love , only their fear "
"GET ON THE GROUND, BITCHEZ!"
Because shooting prone is more stable.
I guess this is why I shed no tears when some Thugs in costumes are shot. Most of them will not hesitate to shoot if ordered to do so.
"Chief, it will take Child Services a whole hour to get here."
"Well, just toss that baby into the fire."
"Right away, Chief!"
Same here. I think the shooters should get paid vacation, at least until the 'investigation' is wrapped up. Just like the cops when they commit murder.
In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.
“You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.’s and to defeat law enforcement techniques,” Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department told the local Fox affilia
What a slap in the face to every US Man or Woman who ever served in the US military.
These officers exhibit a paranoia that should prevent them from becoming a police officer.
If government fears it's own soldiers, then something is very wrong with the state.
Rotting from the head. Can't you smell it?
I just spent the weekend in St. Louis at a bachelor party. Took a trip to East St. Louis and ventured into a strip joint (BTW, 45 yo women with 3 kids shouldn't be allowed to take their clothes off for anyone other than their baby daddy - yikes 'dem 'ladys' was nasty).
Were you there 'bumps'? because I swear I said the very words you just posted around 2:00am Saturday night.
Now back to the USSA war on the US...
A strip club in East St, Louis...I can indeed smell it from here.
No, dear, my stripping days were in the early 70s. I've been retired since 1975, and I never had a gig in St. Louis. I worked the East Coast.
It's just the snake eating its tail. All this shit has to be sold to someone somewhere to keep people working for someone somewhere. Pork barrel politics at its finest: it's called "economic growth" and even "technological advance" in some quarters. These 'good jobs' keep people buying houses, buying groceries, buying clothes and paying taxes of all sorts.
Having second thoughts about what it all means??
we know whats going on. That gear is not to use against Russia or China or to proteect the border.
Welcome to the final America. We should be ashamed.
Who's this "we" you speak of?
The USA I grew up in was quite a bit different than that of today.
DaddyO
Hey, WHO REALLY won the American Revolution?
I'm confused.
Seems like some deal was made on the side to honor all debts in some treaty and that the Bankers, Land Barons, & Euro-Trash won.
You don't really own that land you are a Tenant. And today with Debt North of $60 Trillion most likely you are in Debt to a Mortgage or just lost your home since 2007.
You got Fiat Currency and no interest on Savings, CDs, or Money markets... because you are a serf, I mean an American.
This militarization of the police is the perfect complement to disarmng the citizens. The Obama regime will not make the same mistake that the British did in 1776.
All it took was one attack on 9/11/2001, real or false-flag, to cause the majority of Americans to willingly give up their liberty to the nanny-warfare state. The founders of our country would puke if they could see it.
The fascist-imperialists turn inward and the American sheeple become the target of the wolves.
Euro Trash won the Revolution. Whigs, Torries, Supporters of King George living in New England & New York City. The gun Haters seem to have originated from New York City where the supporters of King George were.
So no wonder they hate the US Constitution & the Bill of Rights for each Citizen.
At least the weapons will be in safe, capable hands... http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2014/06/04/missing-rifle-ke...
;-)
Or to be transferred to legitimate local militia.
Most of this stuff is just high tech junk - paid for by the Federal government - and given to the locals in order to juice the defense contractors sales volume. The only one that you have to be afraid of is the night vision gear. If you can't see them, and they can see you - it's game over. They will come at night....
But thanks to all those tax dollars spent to cover R&D and the exorbitant MIC unit costs, the civvie versions are very inexpensive. I have a sub-$400 unit I use for hog hunting that does an astounding job compared to what was available 10 years ago. I also remember a FLIR unit from a police helo that sold at auction locally for about $1500. I bet that was 1/10th the cost. Hand-held FLIR's are dropping in price from what I'm seeing...
Wow. You know growing up I thought it could never happen here. But it can. And it is.
I thought - and I laugh about it now - that there were "checks and balances." There are none.
I thought that our "brave men and women" would protect us from tyranny. Who would have guessed that they are the fucking problem.
Anyways, this wouldn't be happening if DRock and Lord R didn't say so.
To them I say, "Nuts to You."
Let me brain-storm a minute.
1) What if Foreign Investors now own say $20 Trillion in debt in the USA, and $28.3 Trillion in Assets, and the False Flag is a Huge Debt Crisis, household Credit Crisis, since we have over $60 Trillion in Total Debt in the USA.
And what if China, Europe, and other Foreign Investors wanted to move into the USA big time for Agriculture, Mining, drilling, operate businesses and collect on our Debt???
2) What if European Bankers & Chinese Bankers said look your Debt to GDP is over 140%, they declare a Debt Crisis, household credit is cut, they try to call in Education Loans, House Loans, and demand to foreclose on derivatives.
And what if China, Europe, and other Foreign Investors wanted to move into the USA big time for Agriculture, Mining, drilling, operate businesses and collect on our Debt???
So you see... that is why we need FEMA Camps & Militarized Police Departments, and a Huge Federal Subsidy to pay for the weapons, intelligence, communication, computer, control, and Fusion centers.
We have more than enough firepower to keep potential foreign invaders outside of the borders and should they somehow get inside the US, the military is more than capable to deal with such a threat.
The arming of domestic police forces is aimed at crushing any domestic threats, not foreign.
Just wondering how many brown shirts are they delivering with the all those mine sweepers?
But they come for each of us separately with legal actions, warrants, foreclosures (no paperwork needed), maybe condemn the home or apartment as well...
United we can stand against invasion, but invasion by Euro-bankers? Chinese Investors?
Yep, they will have drones, minesweepers, satellite visuals, phone trackers, license plate readers, command & control Centers, maybe live camera feeds in small towns & big cities.
Astute point Teeth - individually we are vulnerable. This they know and prey upon. Counter measures? Broadcast it far and wide. Let our individual situation be known and in this we can at least possibly find strength in numbers. But be ready to face it alone. And be secure in the knowledge you are not really alone.
all that needs to be understood, and remembered is
they are armed, and paid, to protect and serve the State.
you are not the State.
once that is thoroughly understood, the rest falls into place.
We are the property of the state, not the owners.
Give me a 'C', a 'U', an 'S', an 'I', and a 'P'. What does it spell?
9 Points for ur comment, and I get 3.
- US Debt is surely over $60 Trillion
- In 2009 it was $50 Trillion, I feel no one believe me
Assholes
- Household Debt $12.9 trillion by Q2 2012
- US financial sector debt $15.6 trillion in 2009 (Mostly GSEs and Bonds)
- State and Local Governments $2.4 trillion in 2009
- nonfinancial businesses $10.9 trillion in 2009
- Federal Government $7.8 trillion in 2009 (Debt held by the public (not the whole amount))
Total US Debt = $50.7 trillion in 2009 (but doesn't include federal bonds)
- $16.6 trillion Federal Government Total Treasury Securities issued as of (30 September 2013 Table 6 Final Monthly Treasury Statement) http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/mts0913.pdf
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/intinv/iip_glance.htm $28.3 Trillion in Foreign Owned Assets in the USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junker (People that start wars, Bismark)
So Fuck Everyone
So you get butt hurt because people did not up arrow you?
Are your convictions so damned weak that you need validation?
Oh I am not writing that you are not correct...BECAUSE YOU ARE CORRECT...but if that is all that it takes to get you emotional and defeated...well....shit...you don't stand a fucking chance.
YOU HAD BETTER TOUGHEN UP, PAL!!! We are headed toward a shitstorm and you had best toughen up.
I am not here seeking approval from ANYONE. I am here to learn what I do not know...that is a lot...and to share what little I do know.
I am not here for "approval" from ANYONE.
right on! -1 for you.
Your brain is a powerful check and balance on anything standing in your way. The longer you have to prepare, the tougher a target you will become.
Quietly, I'm preparing too.
1) get out of the system
2) wealth preservation
3) self and community reliance
4) means to fight back
When you say get out of the system, do you mean like "fruit from a poisonous tree" out of the system or what?
"And, for my final Act, I will declare War on America! Hahhahahhahha!"
(Yes, ma'am, he's off the meds again. Call Joe? OK.)
You mean "I declare death to Chicago."
Pathetic...leaving aside the war crimes of course.
"We accuse you of the crime of being stupid and boring. Now go argue with a machine gun in Syria, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine."
If this saves us from just one unlicensed bad haircut, I will consider this military buildup a victory.
2013 total number of LICENSED hunters in the USA (Inc.,LLC,AG,Ltd - a global corporation)
http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/Subpages/LicenseInfo/HuntingLicCertHistory20...
14.6 million. How many have scoped rifles? Usually .308 rifles too.
Texas 1.04 million
PA 968,735
Michigan 761,000
Wisc 704,000
NY 581,401
Minn 579,000
Alabama 531,000
N Carolina 521,000
The numbers are pretty staggering. This does not include CCW licenses where just FL, AL and GA is about 2.2 million.
**WE** are the biggest army in the world and WE need to turn off the ****ing TV and Hollywood. I am not advocating anything but just pointing out that we citizens are not alone.
Notice the MRAPs are centered around states like Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, New York State, Oklahoma, New Mexico where people like guns and like to shoot.
Yup- local Fl police force has them and we have some seriously F'd up individuals running around with badges. I'm pretty sure we have more police initiated shooting deaths than anywhere else in Florida. Recently, they (local gov) have authorized searches of up to 18,000 homes, most in the ghetto areas of town (probably to guage popular opinion, toe in the watter stuff). And of course, NO public outcry. I don't care if its in the drug dealer den parts of town. Still sovreign territory IMO. Bring a search warrant fuckwads.
Yup- local Fl police force has them and we have some seriously F'd up individuals running around with badges. I'm pretty sure we have more police initiated shooting deaths than anywhere else in Florida. Recently, they (local gov) have authorized searches of up to 18,000 homes, most in the ghetto areas of town (probably to guage popular opinion, toe in the watter stuff). And of course, NO public outcry. I don't care if its in the drug dealer den parts of town. Still sovreign territory IMO. Bring a search warrant fuckwads.
> **WE** are the biggest army in the world and WE need to turn off the ****ing TV and Hollywood. I am not advocating anything but just pointing out that we citizens are not alone. <
Freddie - you can rest fully assured that "They" are aware of all these facts, and that "They" have used YOUR Taxpayer's monies to ensure "Their" complete safety under all conceivable civilian - initiated eventualities, which will certainly include the limited use of those WMDs your President is so keen on banning elsewhere.
When it does "come to the crunch", you may have a lot more on your plate than you bargain for (all those on Supplemental Nutrition" will be "expecting" their "Fair Share" of the proceeds, and they too are armed . . . . . .)
Can I get some trolls who have been around for about 15-40 weeks who will state that "da big bwad gubmint will get us"? Trolls represent! Earn that fucking State Dept Money you fucking bitchasses!
Phuck YEA!!!
Hey man, Obama gonna buy me some night vision.
USA!USA!USA!USA!
I'm thinking that the police surplus auctions are probably going to kick some serious ass about 10 years from now.
Notice this, .fedgov is giving up a bunch of equipment to the PDs but not one round of ammunition.
They're keeping that for themselves.
Man, it would really suck if there was a major fire or accident across town and all that armament was left in the care of...the radio dispatcher.
Where can I buy 533 manpads?
I dunno off hand but I know a few good middlemen working out of embassies that might be able to hook you up.
If not, the DOJ has a few M16's & AK's leftover from Fast & Furious if you're interested ;-)
Libya.
Hitler's rearmament of Germany, contrary to the Versailles Treaty, was justified by saying it was for the protection of Germany. Just like Obama is supplanting Posse Comitatus and trying to protect America (.gov) from the terrorists (.you or is it .us?)
By one estimate, there are 780,000 officers in the U.S. 1 machine gun for every 8 officers? Doesn't sound so bad. They're had helicopters forever, so nothing new there. Magazines? Two per machine gun seems right. Given the number of officers, I'm not sure this is unreasonable.
Yeah, hit rate can only get better now: http://www.mintpressnews.com/us-police-murdered-5000-innocent-civilians-...
I live in as little outskirts town of around 500 people, every cop car has an M-16 prominently displayed in it, it's ridiculous.
The town I work in got 20 M16's. They have 12 cops and five red lights, if there wasn't a high school and an interstate close by, they would have two red lights.
Their main passion in life seems to be, growing goatees, shaving their heads, wearing dark shades and pulling over motorists to support their addiction to razors ;-)
What's good for them is good for us then. If they get machine guns - then we should get machine guns too. Police have no special distinction under the Constitution. Unlike the miltary - police are only authorized to use lethal force for defense just like the rest of us. If a machine gun is useful for defensive purpose - then I want one too.
"If a machine gun is useful for defensive purpose - then I want one too."
You are legally allowed to own Title II NFA weapons like machine guns, short-barrelled rifles, suppressors and destructive devices under federal law, and most states. You just have to jump through a lot of hoops. In the case of machine guns, they are very expensive, since the supply is severely restricted by government regulation (can't buy newly manufactured).
You have to purchase such items from a Class III dealer. There may or not be an ATF form 3 and $150 involved, depending on where the item is purchased and if a transfer to a local dealer is involed. An ATF form 4 is used to register the weapon with the ATF. It requires a $200 tax stamp. There is also a requirement for indivduals to submit fingerprints, have a background check, and get a signoff from a chief law enforcement officer (CLEO) in their area, which can all be avoided if the NFA item is registered in the name of a revocable trust or corporation. The whole process can take a long time (i.e., 6 - 12 months), but the process is quicker for subsequent items.
Note that the ATF has announced plans to address the "gun trust loophole", which they received such an overwhelming response to during open comments that they pushed their decision off until 2015. The only reason people resort to setting up a trust in the first place (althought there are other compelling reasons to hold weapons in a trust) is because in most cases they can't get a signoff from a CLEO (to purchase what they are legally allowed to own under federal law). The way the bit is worded that they expect CLEO sign off on, you can't really blame the CLEOs. Anyone wanting to purchase Title II weapons using the trust route better get on it before that avenue closes up. Suppressors in particular are very practical items to have, for a variety of reasons. Some states even allow hunting with them.
Thanks for the informative post!
Yeah - I live in WA state however where even MG parts are not allowed. Suppressors are OK for us but no SBRs or SBSGs (go figure). AOWs are also OK I understand. Coming from CA - this place is a haven however. Will-issue CCWs sweeten the deal.
Personally, I think that the GCA of '68 is one of the worst bits of legislation ever signed into law: Pure infringement, period.
What should we do?
https://soundcloud.com/stevemr20002/a-life-for-liberty-06-08-2014
Their recruiting videos makes joining SWAT look cool to an impressionable youth. They are also preparing the youth with games like Call of Duty where they can feel the rush of killing somebody without the horror of blood and the death gurgles.
That could actually work for the opposition - all those young men with all that training. What makes you think the boys who cut their teeth on Grand theft Auto are going to flock to joint SWAT?
Their used to be a psycopath born every minute, now it's every second.
More right wing conspiracy theorist propaganda
What a tool. Until it isn't, just like all the recent conspiracy FACT which has come to light!
Oops, did I forget my /s again...I need to be more careful
Yes, I've warned you about that. Run along now. :)
Yeah, I've gotten hammered a few times for being too convincing. (Except for my Snowden rants...) LOL
It's not just weaponry either. New vehicles equiped with the latest technology
"We're the Cops"
We're the cops we're coming for your head
We're gonna knock down the door and shoot you dead
We're the cops and we're the guys who are tuff
We're comin' to yer home an' steal all your stuff!
Pregnant women we love to kill and dismember
Little kids we like to burn to an ember
When you see the blue light
you know it's time to fight
We're gonna kill all yer pets
In the middle of night!
(Chorus)
We're the cops
We're the Tops
If you see us comin'
Get outta the way
(LC Song Publishing 2014)
with the gun behind every blade of grass theory. this is 3 days equipment. moar.
As time goes on and the real US economy goes sideways government "service" will appear to be a walled garden of exclusivity, power and authority - really only working for the interests of the largest corporations and local elites.
All these boys and their toys; the drones, the cell phone interceptors, the ice cream socials at the Fusion Center and the MRAP that smells like a bald man's small cock will just be seen as another bully reminder how unjust things have gone under Clinton/Bush/Obama.
Next time you see a buffed out roid-head preening over his new prowler with robot plate reader beaming data back to the Googleplex just remember they are no different than Red Coats upholding the King's justice.
Tax collectors with guns really.
Serve and Protect (their pensions).
I've been saying it for years. The New Feudal World Order. Everyday there is more and more evidence it has arrived.
excellent precis of the article above, nothing partisan, yet correctly identifying the "problems" amrka faces. . .
know your community, however you find it.
Tax collectors with guns protecting their fucking pensions.. Boy did you hit the nail on the head. Those filthy bastards will have a hard time collecting enough to male their pensions pay out though in the near future.
OH I know the answer to this question.....we the people!
Nothing like shooting Vox Populii to encourage them to pay their taxes.
Protect and Blow Up.
New motto.
I know, there's problem with the logic, but it's catchy.
Hey, that's a coincidence becasue so are we.
Gubmint gotta have a war against people calling bullshit on their crook asses....takes a lot of firepower to maintain a fascist socialist iron fist of control!
I'm going to get pilloried for this, but notice the so-called "liberal" states are not arming themselves as much as the so-called "conservative" states.
My point is that the DC US criminals are more of the fascist brand of totalitarianism than the socialist.
"My guillotine is a separatist."
"I'm going to get pilloried for this"
uh, nope.
2 ups so far...
:)
Well, theres a couple ways to look at that. It could be the peeps are perfectly fine with being controlled, as long as the trains run on time, the lights stay on and "government services" continue uninterupted.
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By the way, I was the second green ;-)
Bread & Circuses... it's the time tested true method of subjugation. Real change only happens when the masses have nothing to lose because they are starving in the streets. We are a long way from that, but the trajectory is unmistakenly in that direction... on a long enough timeline.
And the liberals are fully dependent. They are acting up until the freebies are cut off. The conservative states are the ones in contention. If the cops have trouble maintaining control, watch Texas.
+1
In fact, the liberal states are leading the way in disarming.
Tyler you need to republish that Trade-Off paper by David Korowicz. It's time is getting really fucking close, like less than two years away.
Trade-Off paper by David Korowicz:
http://www.feasta.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Trade_Off_Korowicz.pdf
Just printed for reading tonight - looks good. Thanks for posting!
Man! That was windy, but Korowicz is good, real good. He has spent much effort, and I applaud him for it- to say what simpletons like me understood only as a usury based monetary system must, by its own design, fail. He has explored the various mechanisms which could become the catalyst for such failure, and various outcomes that ensue.
This is way above my pay grade, but profuse thanks accrue to kchrisc from acetinker for the link.
Why is it that some of us want to know the make/model of the bus that ran over us while most of us don't? Would things be different if everyone wanted to know? That's rhetorical, but I figured you might have an opinion.
Wow - this could have been written by that fruit-loop Las Vegas couple who also had a beef against the 'facist' police force.
It was in today's NY Times.
I see what you did there ;-)
It's fascist Butch, and your nephew Derek is an awesome axeman. How'd you wind up here?
You may want to pay attention to the fruit loops going forward. I've actually been expecting this for awhile. I'd betcha those kids had personal interaction with those cops they offed in the past. Now the lady at the WalMart seems indicative of just plain crazy, I'll admit.
That boy was pissed b/c he was on house arrest for selling weed, but I bet you never even seen a reefer, right? Maybe you were the righteous Allman Brother, I dunno. Damn few would even recognize your name- you were one of two after all, and I did ya'll's shit by myself at clubs across the south in my younger days. Still do it for fun- two sticks in each hand, with a nod to zydeco, it's not that hard.
Anyway, your past precludes me from rippin' off your head and shittin' down your neck, but you really need to open those eyes of yours.
Head for the hills the money changers got hold of the printing presses.
Boston Strong Boston strong 230 shots in boat, more rounds than Germany fires in a year and they missed. USA USA Did get call 45 miles away to see if kids needed trauma consoling from schools. I said I did, just what the heck is going on here? Boston Strong local police bullet proof vest and assault weapons drawn for 100 dollar default warrants for parking fines. Pulling over out state license plates as probable cause (yea a rental while car repaired).. 100k to Dare officers.... heck the homeland security officer at least has to take inventory instead of flipping a red yellow or heck forgot the warning level colors? Lipstick on a pig is not the exact metaphor it's more like Barney Fife dressed as SS storm trouper.. Oh the brand new court house leveled a brand new Rite Aid building taken by eminent domain... and the Barney and Betty fifes all have excellent FICO scores....
Boston Strong Boston Strong...... FUBAR FUBAR FUBAR
sorry security security security (would not want to be a conspiracy nut with a left or right ear flap on the tin foil hat)
did they not learn from Nam that lightly armed guerrilla citizens can render all their military hardware useless, regardless of how big and bad they must feel.
Just ask those militia police eating their last meal at cici's.
Remember - these are the guys who insist its different this time.
That's why all of their efforts are directed towards putting on a big show. That's mostly all they've got.
And all this gear coming home didn't fare so well against a bunch of goatherders and like another guy said some of this stuff will fit right into some good ol boy's collection. You can keep the MRAP though. Looks like a big target waiting to get torched with all hands aboard.
We are a fascist government. We admired the Nazis & the Germans that much. USA UK always collaborated with the Nazis after WWII. OSS become CIA, NATO formed secret armies, they started recruiting fascists & former Nazi Soldiers to create a hidden army almost as soon as the USSR, US, and Vatican started helping Nazis to get away in the Ratlines & Operation Paperclip.
BBC Timewatch Video seems well made on the Topic of Operation Gladio and how it was formed with interviews with former officials.
The media reports led Parliament to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate the intelligence service. The commission’s final report, released earlier this month, detailed a host of abuse accusations, including that the service retained large archives of “political espionage” information collected during the cold war on individual citizens and that a stash of money and gold established as part of the Stay Behind program had not been properly accounted for.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/12/world/europe/spy-scandal-fells-luxembo...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/07/greece-golden-dawn-fascism-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay-behind_network_in_Belgium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_behind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_military_junta_of_1967%E2%80%931974#...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin_Group
Operation (Red) Sheepskin (Greece)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascist#Iran ??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-fascist#Greece
By my calculations, somebody is only getting 1 magazine. ???
He only reads it for the articles. Really.
"We are surrounded by a vast enemy! They are relentless in their quest! They are white. They may be Christians. But we can defeat them for the Fundamental Change I campaigned on! During my Rule we have augmented our forces with thousands of Islamic Brothers and millions of Mexicans! Today, we declare War against the White Devils! I hold here the head of our former VP, Big Joe! Minister Farrakhan is our new VP! Malik Shabazzola of the Panthers is our new DHS Chief! Rise up, rise up my brown brothers! Kill YT! Spare only those who convert and pay the Muslim Tax! Burn Baby, Burn! Thank You. May Allah Bless Amerika!"
Perhaps you might want listen to what Farrakahn says instead of displaying your Islamophobia.
Not so different from many that reside here. Or is this too truthy for you?
So I should have added the sarcasm tag? Geez.
OK
/s
Supply chains are key, saying it for years, keep your eye on JIT inventories they will tell you when to BO, hunker down, dump the electronics and disappear.
http://shtfschool.com/
Barberians at the gate.
And using my dollars to do it!
CRIMINALS
Shoot first ask questions later..
Oooops
The dead guy is lost for words
Are their families so protected?
That's it. I'm going to do a good job on my homework, graduate from UCLA and go to work for UNESCO. Fuck it.
Barry O is not leaving the job......the psychopaths that are now employed in police depts will be fighting for the promised pensons & perks
Preparing for what? I see, once the weapons and training are in place the full frontal asset theft can take place... And the serfs will welcome it...
https://www.perpetualassets.com/news/
Why does Oklahoma get almost as many MRAPs as Texas? WAAaaahhh! We are big! We are Texas! We should get a fucking shitload more armor to kill our people than those Okie weenies!
I'm all for gun control of the police. There's no way these retard, barely high school graduate pigs ever need anything more than a stick and piece of gum.
Surely when the troops came home from WWII, Vietnam, etc., all the excess weapons went to local PD too.
/yeah fuckin' right
I'm all for gun control of the police. There's no way these retard, barely high school graduate pigs ever need anything more than a stick and piece of gum.
Bravo - how did the coppers in England get by for soooo long without carrying guns of any kind??? Billy clubs, boots and whistles were all they needed. Just say'in . . . .
At the Neenah City Council, Mr. Pollnow is pushing for a requirement that the council vote on all equipment transfers. When he asks about the need for military equipment, he said the answer is always the same: It protects police officers
If police officers are in so much danger perhaps we can find a nice compound with a big electrified fence for them to stay in where we can protect them from any bad people that may want to hurt them. It would be for their own good of course.
Si vis bellum, para bellum.
-- Confidential DHS Memo
Da pisarum casus sed culpa Etruscos.
homosaywhat ?
"Infundere Venenum" troglodytae est. Non pascam troglodyterum.
Tea-a Hits-a dan-a Ied-a
I sure hope to hell all the gang-bangers, bikers & Cosa Nostra....all of whom should be fiercely independent, get sick of this shit and do something. However, they'll probably all roll over or sell out...am guessing they're only rough & tough bad-asses on people they can kick the shit out of...not a serious "contender" for power.... fuckin' parasites
Bad news for ya bro - all those gangs are already on the payroll of the big gang known as TPTB.
Exactly.
The Fast&Furious scandal, where the ATF was sending military hardware to specific cartels in Mexico, was basically an example of Uncle Sam arming the crime syndicates that they control, so they could wage war on those groups they don't control.
I also remember reading about how apparently in the US, arms shipments would get put on trains and mafia members would somehow 'find out' their routes and schedule and leisurely just grab all the gear sent to them while the trains slowly passed certain locations... Nothin' the cops or feds can do about that, right?!
It's not for nothing that the FBI denied the mob's existence for so many years, and this is just part of the criminality that the crooked cops purposefully protect and occult, while society is destroyed by the crack, meth, forced prostitution, gang violence, etc.
Fuck the police! God-damned satanically-minded organizations doing evil while pretending to do good!
Coming soon to our zipcode: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
I love Zero Hedge and most of the articles.....but this one is a bit much. I'm gonna have to call BS on this one.
Call BS and you will not be prepared. Your call. Let's assume the economy crashes hard and deep (impossible I know given the VIX and Fiat). There is not a silver bullet this time (QE) and let's say food costs spike to extreme levels and uncle sam freezes benefits. How do you think the entitled ones would react?
The "Entitled Ones" will react as we saw during the few hours of SNAP outage some months ago. For any long term "crisis" you'll all have a very good education in what the term "May you live in Interesting Times" really means.
On the bright side, you'll certainly be able to experience a "very Historical period" first-hand, and who knows, you might even survive to tell the tales to your descendants!!
I did not mark you down. I keep an open mind. Where do you call BS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkYfSXy7XGo
There has been tanks moving on railroads, going to areas near FEMA camps, not desert tan...and if you have not been paying attention, then you should stay silent. There are reasons to believe the authorities are preparing for combat (ammo by the billions in govt agencies and agriculture).
So save yourself the humiliation and READ.
The only good cop is a dead cop.....I have never met a cop who was not a liar on a power trip. Most were bullied in High School.
Bad Troll, bad. Now go in the corner and sit.
Sit! I said sit. I mean it.
Now STAY. STAY!
Silly troll.
You can't repeat the same material and not look silly thread after thread. For goodness sakes...
I told you, you need to roll up a new character. Real people don't just repeat the same shit the same lines, over and over.
Just who do you asswipes think they are planning on using this on?
Sit!
Bad Troll. To your corner. Bad boy. Bad.
If you want to do this, you need to talk to people, not spew the same stuff at people over and over again. You use the same lines over and over and call people names. That isn't going to get the job done, unless all you want to do is troll, in which case, ya got me!
Ma'am, you are starting to sound like a DICKHEAD!
Your account is 2 years and 35 weeks old. Impressive, you have been around a while.
Yet your first post was April 30, 2014. Can you explain how that happens?
check your own account MsC - looks like our previous rants have gone down the ole memory hole. . .
I have already done that and indeed, I needed to come back and take that back!
Thanks for saying something to me about it.
as someone who used to occasionally seek out older threads missed (or remembered), scanning for old fave commenters, the "new" ZH has been an occasional flick-to-the-head,
a reminder to stay present, discard old distractions, agile mind.
be well.
Shirley you do not mean that. My granny was a cop. You want my granny dead? I'm challenging you to a head crushing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5_dgKDsrc
Just my observations from my own personal interactions with the police.