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Obama Planning To Increase Funding For The Militarization Of America's Police Force

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Since 2006,MRAPs, helicopters, machine guns, and night-vision-goggle have been increasingly evident across America as the good ol' yankee copper morphs into a full-metal-jacket-looking killer (even as the FBI admits the threats to police have not escalated as much as the media would like). So it isjust 'lucky' that Ferguson has reignited a narrative that enables President Obama "to discuss federal programs and funding that provide equipment to the state and local enforcement agencies," in a series of meetings today at The White House. We suspect funding will increase (for your own protection) and a new SWATification Tzar will be unveiled.

 

Despite reality...

A recently published FBI report accidentally proves that while the police claim cops face growing threats from rowdy populations–like in Ferguson–the opposite is true. The report presents law enforcement deaths in 2013.

 

The report found that across the entire country, only 76 LEOs were killed in “line-of-duty” incidents. 27 died as a result of “felonious” acts and 49 officers died in accidents–namely, automobile (ironically, of the 23 killed in car accidents, 14 were not wearing seat belts–a violation for which cops routinely ticket drivers). More officers die from accidents than actual murders on the job. The report also outright admits that intentional murders of cops were down from 2004 and 2009.

The militarization of America continues...

 

and so we come to today... (as Politico reports)

President Barack Obama is holding three meetings on Monday to discuss issues relating to unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.

 

According to the White House schedule, the first afternoon meeting will be a talk with members of Obama’s Cabinet “to discuss federal programs and funding that provide equipment to the state and local enforcement agencies.” Vice President Joe Biden will also be in attendance.

 

Obama is then scheduled to meet with local and national civil rights leaders.

 

The third session will take place among elected officials, law enforcement officials and community and faith leaders “to discuss how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust to strengthen neighborhoods across the country.”

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Community organizer in chief indeed. Here is the social-media optimized 3 point plan for fixing Ferguson and the like...

 

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Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:48 | 5505356 Disc Jockey
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Fucking great...this will end well.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:59 | 5505399 knukles
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Guys... he said that he was gonna do this during the 2008 election.  A domestic army larger and more powerful than, etc., etc., etc.
And most Progressives still cannot get it through their pointy little heads that they're following Bill Ayres right down the slippery slope to concentration camps for those who disagree.
I suggest that any of you not yet done so, get William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and read (all you need to) the first 175 or so pages.  Only the names, places and times have been changed to protect the guilty.

And doin' a bang up job continuing to cow-tow to the less privileged, keeping them on their welfare largesse, demeaning them to a role of state voting slave, lives of misery in the hovels, refusing the opportunities to build self-esteem.
Really fucked up shit, my friends.  Er, "folks"

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:03 | 5505427 Took Red Pill
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"If I had a son, he'd look like Michael Brown"

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:11 | 5505470 Divided States ...
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Is it just me or does it feel like Obama is taking the other side of every damn policy issue he has made over the last year...I mean I just dont get it....its like hes doing this on purpose to antagonize the American citizens and see how far he can push us....though I am sure most of the American sheeps dont even care right now as they are browsing online shopping for deals still.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:13 | 5505486 Syrin
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The reason you're having trouble grasping this is because you still haven't accepted the fact he's a self admittied foreign born enemy of America.   If you truly understand that, everything he does makes sense.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:20 | 5505519 Stoploss
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Bingo.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:34 | 5505571 macholatte
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ALERT: Hold onto your security blanket cause the next 2 years are going to be very un-normal for the American sheeple. The Soetoro group has a plan and it does not include anything we've ever seen before.... like allowing 60,000 illegals into the country without a peep from MSM & no rebellion from the citizens. Oh yea. It's gonna get weirder.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:00 | 5505692 Manthong
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Fundamental transformation.. because Obama.

In reality though, because of a few circles that are way above Barry’s pay grade.

 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:24 | 5505987 sylviasays
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Only 60,000 illegals? There at least that many that enter into LA County each month. 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 20:37 | 5506529 Dakota Kid
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Our country is gone.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:50 | 5506118 Bob
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When has Obola not done this?  He says one thing to placate the faux-progressive dimocrat base and give the faux republican opposition something to run with/against, then does the opposite, which all the real progressives recognized long, long ago, hence their hatred for him burning brighter even than that of the birthers. 

But this allows the ignorant to cast him as a socialist and a racist . . . cutting them out of reality based discussions entirely. 

He's a brilliant sociopath who takes "Divide and Conquer" to a whole new level.  The "looks like a black dude" bit was pure evil brilliance on the part of all his owners. 

He himself is just a contemptible cunt. 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:03 | 5505435 sleigher
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How hard is it to buy land in Alaska?  Somewhere that is so hard to access that no one bothers?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:20 | 5505765 Bastiat
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I have a nephew who lives up there.  After you've gone as far as you can in an FWD, you've got a 2 mile walk.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 21:23 | 5506847 General Decline
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That's what Apache attack helicopters are for. There will be no safe locations.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:01 | 5505933 Disc Jockey
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Just a guess, but I'd think property costs wouldn't be the main concern up there. Rather I'd worry about the cost to 'import' all the essential building materials.  Of course you could just go this way:

http://www.alaskaantlerworks.com/Alaska_cabin.htm

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:20 | 5506013 Seize Mars
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Yeah, and keep one thing in mind: there aren't refineries in AK. All the gasoline in the world under their feet and they import every drop they use.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:18 | 5505760 OpenThePodBayDoorHAL
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Americans need to go live in some other developed nation for a while, first stop on their return will be Walmart to buy a torch and a pitchfork. I just returned from a week in Switzerland and did not see ONE policeman or soldier. Oh, look what happens when the society's resources are somewhat fairly available...not just for billionaires in gated communities. America is a police state, the envy of the former East Germany and the Soviet Union. My advice: flee

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:05 | 5505444 Jonathan Equine...
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Better yet, read Goliath.

Kindle version is 10 bucks.

That's where we're heading - and you'll get to read the same excuses for over the top state violence, too.

Those criticizing it will be deemed "liberals" by the Fox/Drudge crowd, of course. 


Lest we forget, the right wing embraces totalitarianism at the margins every bit as much as the "progressives."

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:09 | 5505465 knukles
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Oh, I have not for a moment forgotten that.  It is merely the actors on stage at the moment taking together, the applause and ridicule.

To wit as to perpetuation of the problems....  A discussion of centuries of slavery as the focus by NYC mayor de Bhlazzio...

http://observer.com/2014/12/before-white-house-meeting-de-blasio-says-na...

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:23 | 5505532 Stoploss
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There are a whole lot of ownership certs that have not been resolved.

 

Collection day may come sooner than expected.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:38 | 5505616 macholatte
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Those criticizing it will be deemed "liberals" by the Fox/Drudge crowd, of course.
Lest we forget, the right wing embraces totalitarianism at the margins every bit as much as the "progressives."

 

Oh where would you be without your labels?

How's this for labels:

The term "Nazi", commonly used in English, derives from the first two syllables of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP). It parallels the German term Sozi (pronounced /zo?tsi/), an abbreviation of Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany).[18][19] Members of the party referred to themselves as Nationalsozialisten (National Socialists), rarely as Nazis.

 

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

Adolf Hitler

 


Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:56 | 5505913 TeamDepends
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There is not a dimes' worth of difference between Repuglicans and Dimocrits. However, the gulf between conservatives and progressives can not be bridged.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:14 | 5505490 Zymurguy
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JE, I often agree with you and disagree with you... somehow in this post it's both this time!  Some conservatives like me don't like the course this is taking either.  I think the po' po' is WAY too militarized already.  Funny how our own Sen. McCaskill here in MO was SO concerned about the "overmilitarization of the police" that she held HEARINGS about it... wow, that'll get us somewhere.  Platitudes and posturing... that's mainly what we get from our elected representatives (I refuse to call them leaders).

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:32 | 5505559 Meat Hammer
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He doesn't mean conservatives, he's referring to right-wing statists.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:12 | 5505743 Zymurguy
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I usually think of "government is the solution to everything" when I hear the term statist.  Or those who want to stick their noses in everything we do and control every aspect of life as statists.  I haven't picked up on too many right-wingers who fit this description (except those embedded heavily in the govt. like Bush, etc.) - it tends to stick with the left and their progressive socialistic tendencies quite well.

So really though, I don't care if you're a lefty or a big govt. right winged asshole.  Stay the fuck out of my life.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 18:25 | 5506232 NMC_EXP
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D vs R, left vs right, liberal vs conservative, commie vs nazi....all this is meaningless.

The only political continuum that matters is this one: 

Liberty <==> Tyranny

 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 19:12 | 5506388 mvsjcl
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I refuse to call the "representatives"

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:12 | 5505474 Syrin
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Here's a seacrhable website that allows you to see what high grade military gear has been delivered to YOUR county:

 

http://thepatriotnation.net/2014/08/comprehensive-database-of-police-rec...

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:19 | 5505515 Amish Hacker
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Nice link.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:53 | 5505619 Ignatius
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Anyone here still think their "whiteness" or American roots protects them?  What happens to "the other" happens to all of us.  In the elite's mind we're all peasants.

All this was predicted by Douglas Valentine in his 1990 book The Phoenix Program.

For those who don't know the Phoenix Program was a terror campaign in Vietnam to eliminate domestic resistence among the civilian population.  Protest and resist, and you're labeled a terrorist - that's the new meme.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:29 | 5506034 sylviasays
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Anyone here still think their "whiteness" or American roots protects them?

Please, any Caucasian who lives in any of the multi-racial and multi-ethnic cities in the U.S. knows that their skin color makes them a target. 

Gang of non-white teens in St Louis beat white motorist to death with hammers in front of his wife after he got out to confront them when they attacked his car:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2855535/St-Louis-teens-beat-motorist-32-death-hammers-sparking-protests-Bosnian-community.html#ixzz3KgRMvdCb 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:41 | 5506082 Ignatius
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Congratulations, you completely missed the context and the point. 

"He did it, he missed the barn!" -- from Cat Ballou

Try reading a little deeper and wider than 'the daily outrage'.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 18:04 | 5506140 sylviasays
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No, you've missed my point. 

Caucasians should not only fear their armed big goverment, but they must also fear the non-Caucasians who have been whipped up into hating Caucasians by Marxist Barry and his cronies along with his state run news media. 

 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 18:08 | 5506185 Ignatius
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The story is police militerization, which started well before Obummer and will continue well after he's gone.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 18:34 | 5506239 sylviasays
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Barry's Marxist regime has ramped up the militarization to a whole other level by instituting simultaneous programs aimed at both militarizing and directly controlling local police and law enforcement. His regime has suplied a vast array of sophisticated U.S. Defense Department “weapons of war” to city and county governments. 

 

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/17056-obama-flood...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/obama-police-militarization_n_3...

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&I...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billion-rounds-of-...

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 18:43 | 5506262 Ignatius
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First, Obummer is no worker's friend.  Marxist?  "Corporate whore" is far more accurate.

Second, all this was predicted as described above in the book The Phoenix Program.  If they're in a hurry then it's because they know all their lies - 9/11, etc.. - are falling apart and they're worried.

Finally, I am well aware of everything you're posting.  Again, you're missing the point: all this was predicted.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 19:13 | 5506363 sylviasays
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So when has any Marxist regime been a friend of the worker? It's all about power and wealth for Marxist leaders and their cronies.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope said Karl Marx.  Barry and his cronies are using corporate wealth and big government to further their leftist agenda.

Both of Barry's parents were hard core Marxists and he has been surrounded his entire life with Marxists such as Frank Marshall Davis and Bill Ayers.

 

 

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/15/former-terrorist-bill-ayers-speaks-abo...

http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/its-time-to-admit-obama-is-a-communist/

http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2013/07/07/new-york-times-profile-scrubs-vale...

http://spectator.org/articles/34799/dreams-frank-marshall-davis

http://www.obamasrealfather.com/frank-marshall-davis/

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama%E2%80%99s-purge-why-has-fran...

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:34 | 5505560 Real Estate Geek
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Even the innocuous items are worthy of outrage (e.g. "my" county got a coffee maker valued at $492).  Four Hundred and Ninety Two fucking dollars for a coffee maker.  JFC.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 20:34 | 5506650 Things that go bump
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My real concern is what happens when the imperial stormtroopers don't get paid.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:36 | 5505575 stant
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I read it when I was 18. The statistics and figures in the back of the book was stagaring . Page upon page

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:52 | 5506143 izzee
Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:56 | 5505400 nope-1004
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Can't come soon enough.

WORST.  PRESIDENT.  EVER.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:58 | 5505412 Hippocratic Oaf
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Right De-militarize the military and re-militarize the police. The next 'war' will be racially charged.

When EBT runs out and obamaphones stop working.....watch the fuck out!

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:02 | 5505421 knukles
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Yeah... explain that to a Progressive.
Well, try to.
Take 4 aspirin and call the doctor in the morning.
Er, wait..... what doctors?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:21 | 5505770 swmnguy
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It's funny what's happened to the word "Progressive."  Much as what's happened to the word "Conservative," when I think about it.  As a matter of fact, most of the words we use to discuss politics have been completely drained of meaning, and are used to mean...damn near anything, but mostly "Whatever It Is That I Don't Like."

I doubt that's accidental.  Once the vocabulary to discuss things is eliminated, well, people can't discuss things.  And then it's mighty hard to have dissent, isn't it.  All that's left is an inchoate sense that things are not right, but one can't express why to anyone else.

Let's see.  Could that be in anyone's interests?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:50 | 5506053 TeamDepends
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NOTHING happened to "progressive". Around 90 years ago in the US, the communist party, realizing their stench would gag a maggot, simply started calling themselves "progressives". Thus, they doused themselves in "eau de progresse" because the truth to these people is as a silver bullit is to a vampire. The bamboozlement is so pervasive that a modern progressive would be insulted if you called them a "communist".

Tue, 12/02/2014 - 11:20 | 5508455 swmnguy
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I differ on the particulars, but yes, you're right.  That's what I mean.  I would suggest that it's the corporatists who have taken over the word "Progressive," but my point is that it doesn't mean anything anymore.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:59 | 5505417 Bryan
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That's not surprising.  When the ballot box is no longer useful to change the government more to the peoples' liking, what do you think they would do next?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:17 | 5505506 midtowng
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The title of this article is not reflected in the content of this article.

I think the militarization of the police is a criminal activity, but this article does not show that Obama wants to increase it.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:01 | 5505702 JLee2027
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Funding won't give courage to cowards. When the shit turns real, uniforms come off, just like the Iraqi army.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:45 | 5505870 Cynicles
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The America Hating President's Brown Shirts will likely not be as fanatically loyal as Hitler's were.

They will sure love the expanded opportunities for increased oppression all the same.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:13 | 5505981 Disc Jockey
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You know on a second glance, there's only around 94,000 firearms they've supplied along with about 5 mags per firearm.

The US has an average of 300 million citizen owned firearms and most of the guys I know have far more than just 5 mags per gun.

So essentially 94k vs 300million

Not bad odds when you look at it that way.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:53 | 5505361 LawsofPhysics
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The largest investment in those southern "border states"...  ...interesting.

 

Perhaps Ferguson is in Florida?  If so, my bad...

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:51 | 5505373 Shizzmoney
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RE

to discuss how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust to strengthen neighborhoods across the country

Here's a hint: maybe start jailing bankers and stop shooting unarmed brown people.

These "meetings" will have a much effect as playing tennis against a wall.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:54 | 5505378 LawsofPhysics
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"Here's a hint: maybe start jailing bankers and stop shooting unarmed people."  --  Fixed it for you, don't be such a racist douche.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:04 | 5505428 kchrisc
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"Here's a hint: maybe start jailing bankers and stop shooting unarmed brown people."

Actually, quite often now the victims of the gun and badge thugs' treason are white.

They are done practicing on the blacks, and blacks have less wealth to steal than whites.

An American, not US subject.

 

"You have the right to remain silent while we torture you. You have the right for one of our lawyers to advise you to talk and plead when we're done. Anything you say and do during torture can and will be used against you in a Zionist court of plunder. Do you understand these rights, or do I have to taze you again?"

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:38 | 5505583 Meat Hammer
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You're one of my favorite ZH commenters.  Keep up the good work.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:14 | 5505473 TheABaum
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How about the ARMED brown people stop SHOOTING EACH OTHER?

Thousand of young black males shoot each other every year, and none of the people carrying stupid banners or torching their neighborhood ever say a word.

 

 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:22 | 5505787 swmnguy
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The thinking is that it's different when the troopers of the Power Elites are the ones shooting at you.  When it's those at the rock-bottom of the social ladder shooting each other, nobody else thinks it's their problem.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:52 | 5505374 NoDebt
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But if Obama is on the side of the protesters in Ferguson, encouraging more of the same elsewhere why would he.....?  Oh, nevermind.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:02 | 5505429 knukles
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Hell, he already sent his emissaries, Holder and Sharpton.  Amazing he needed these meetings at all.
Thought he'd prefer La Quinta.  Public course.  No problems getting a tee time. 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:15 | 5505494 franzpick
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BO is getting act 2 ready: Jane McCain walking down Flourescent St. calling out, ala Kiev, "I AM WITH YOU. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WITH YOU", followed by Nuland handing out chicken and bisquits.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:53 | 5505377 kchrisc
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Tyranny must supply treason with the means to protect their tyranny.

"Serve treason, protect tyranny."

An American, not US subject.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:05 | 5505438 Buckaroo Banzai
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"Treason doth never prosper; for where it does, none dare call it treason."

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:12 | 5505475 kchrisc
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"Treason doth never prosper; for where it does, none dare call it treason."

No need to "call it," as it is defined:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Article 3, Section 3 of the "Law of the Land"

I don't dare to, as I yell it from the mountain tops.

I am Witness One, an American, not US subject.

 

The emperor is NOT naked, but wearing the bloody skin of his treason's and tyranny's victims.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:53 | 5505385 yogibear
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The chairman/dictator has spoken. The rule of Obama. Forget about the constitution and rule of law anymore.

Becoming more like Mexico every day.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:55 | 5505388 no more banksters
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"Thus ruling class is blocking all the ways and prepares the future adjusted to its interests not only through the police militarization, but also through the police privatization, under the tolerance of the majority who already sees the state as a hostile force."

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/09/globalized-wars-anyone-can-fi...

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:59 | 5505683 TeethVillage88s
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All South America, Central America, and Probably Caribbean is like that.

The Department Stores have Guards in Body Armor, holding Shot Guns or Machine Guns... to protect the cash, electronic goods & people.

The Wealthy are used to private security forces in many parts of the world... for their protection.

I'm sure our Congressmen & Women & Big Bankers have them too.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:57 | 5505394 Glass Seagull
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It's not Barry's call...it's the military industrial complex.  If he doesn't comply, they'll end his career.

 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:09 | 5505451 TheABaum
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What career? I'm hoping he decides to going back to smoking choom for a living. I wish him a long life, I just want to live a little longer so I can piss on his grave.  

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:40 | 5506107 sylviasays
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Barry the Marxist and Valerie Jarrett the Islamist will comply but they are going to implement it with their typical race based leftist spin. They install radical leftists, gay nazis and racist non-whites to implement their plans. 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:56 | 5505395 LFMayor
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This IS fucking great!   Now I don't have to travel so goddam far to get my hands on these nice toys that I paid for already.

guys, come on, this is the equivalent of the fans tossing folding chairs into the WWF ring.  We want as much of this shit local as possible. 

Don't you fucking fret, us rednex know what to do with this shit!

Its beginnin to look a lot LIKE CHRISTMAS

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:28 | 5505541 viahj
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it is vital to ensure that your county sherrif is on the side of Liberty and the Constitution. 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:45 | 5505614 LFMayor
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or get a "new" sheriff.   Some assembly required.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:59 | 5505411 Bunga Bunga
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Moar grenade launchers for schools?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 14:59 | 5505413 Shizzmoney
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$1500 per camera? rly?

Some company's stock gonna get a big boost today

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:03 | 5505433 seek
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The real money is in the backend, not the camera. Cameras are cheap, but storing, documenting and accessing 8 hours of video per shift per officer per day, and retaining it for months to years, that's a shitload of backend infrastructure.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:09 | 5505466 Jonathan Equine...
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You would only retain it for some period like a year.  memory is cheap.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:17 | 5505505 kchrisc
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"The real money is in the backend, not the camera. Cameras are cheap, but storing, documenting and accessing 8 hours of video per shift per officer per day, and retaining it for months to years, that's a shitload of backend infrastructure."

Another incentive to brutalize and kill, as there will be less to store the more that is "accidentally lost."

An American, not US subject.

 

"Officer Pete is the Officer of the Year because his numerous incidents of treason enabled the department to reduce video storage costs by $100,000, and so we were able to buy that additional tank you guys wanted. Let's hear it for Officer Pete!"

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:51 | 5505640 SDShack
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You mean infrastructure like that used to retain IRS emails?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:03 | 5505425 Jonathan Equine...
Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:20 | 5505518 kchrisc
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"Pssst! Is Israel going crazy?"

Technically, psychopaths are crazy.

An American, not US subject.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:22 | 5505522 YHC-FTSE
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Next he'll be bulldozing the homes of constitutionalists to build golf courses and condos. Anyone with a gun and a voice for dissent is already labelled a domestic terrorist anyway, so it's just an easy transition from paramilitary occupation to all out suppression. Maybe he'll even build "protective" walls to separate the pliant sheep from the restless ones?

If you need to militarize your civilian police force to stay in power, it is an admission that the power you hold is illegitimate.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:56 | 5505908 kchrisc
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"If you need to militarize your civilian police force to stay in power, it is an admission that the power you hold is illegitimate. "

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An American, not US subject.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:05 | 5505436 TheABaum
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How long before we begin greeting each other with "Hiel Obama"?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:37 | 5506091 ncdirtdigger
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Act early, get the little ones their own "O" armband for xmas. Then turn in the neighbors for not being patriotic enough to wear theirs.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:05 | 5505437 Stumpy4516
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You fund them and part of their pensions - you own them and their loyalty.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:05 | 5505445 agstacks
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Finally a topic that both the left and right can get behind! 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:06 | 5505450 dexter_morgan
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Never waste a crisis. Just like every other false flag, there is always some piece of legislation or plan already worked out and ready to go days after the 'event'.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:14 | 5505479 Snoopy the Economist
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I think the plans and legislation are already sitting there waiting for the right event that can be 'molded' by the media to fit their needs.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:08 | 5505455 franzpick
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Community Organizing.  Nationwide.  Any of you Democans, or other interested citizens, going to take legal action to stop this disgrace?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:11 | 5505472 ebworthen
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Billy clubs and whistles is what they should have.

A radio and a bullet proof vest would be concessions.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:22 | 5505527 Amish Hacker
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Give us Andy of Mayberry, not Starski & Hutch.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:12 | 5505480 ClowardPiven2016
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Alright...maybe this additional deficit spending will help the economy acheive escape velocity

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:36 | 5506087 ncdirtdigger
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"It isn't big enough", - Mrs Krugman

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:13 | 5505481 Seasmoke
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Shoot with tanks first. Ask questions second. 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:13 | 5505488 alexcojones
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Read this on Infowars, where many ZEROHEDGE columns also appear

HedgeWars, where Info is Your Warrior

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:20 | 5505520 Meat Hammer
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And the sheep will bleat their approval.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:21 | 5505523 Peter Pan
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Putin must feel better knowing that he is not the only one the American government fears.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:41 | 5505596 YHC-FTSE
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When things get worse, I'd bet that the narrative will still blame Putin for anti federal government sentiments by propagandizing the American public. I'm only surprised they haven't tried it yet, although you can already see a bit of that happening with msm attacks on RT and trolls calling ZH a Putin site.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:27 | 5505539 will ling
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he said in early '08 he wanted his own army. is the U.S. Army gonna stand by and take this?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 15:48 | 5505628 TeethVillage88s
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We R in FY2015, Budget Time, need Fiscal Stimulus for the Economy... Send in your list.

- Small Military Ops
- US Construction & Infrastructure
- DHS Subsidies for Ports, Water Ways, Check Points, Border Areas
- Command, Control, Communications, Computers for DHS & State & Local Authorities
- Weapons & Security Equipment Purchases, Transfer older equipment to Local Police & State Police
- Identify State & Local Police shortfalls in security, detention facilities, Vehicles, Individual Protection Systems, Other Equipment
- Do we have Ebola Treatment & Quarantine Areas planned at all levels of State & Local Government
- Check with FEMA on Food, Water, Medical Supplies, Shelters, ... do we need engineering contracts to improve holding areas or refugee containment areas

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:01 | 5505704 roadhazard
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I don't see how local police could get any more "armed up" then they are now. I read where some that received military surplus weapons "lost" a bunch of them and now have to give what they have left back to the Government.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:02 | 5505706 FreeShitter
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Wake me up from this nightmare..........is there any place on earth left for normalcy?

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:30 | 5505806 GOSPLAN HERO
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Posse Comitatus Act ...

 

Soon we'll have police units with the same TOE (table of organization and equipment) as U.S. Army infantry units.

 

... like 1939 Nazi Germany ... the Waffen SS units had more firepower than German army units - just in case the army rebelled against Hitler.

 

 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 20:23 | 5506619 TeethVillage88s
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And Saudi Arabia has Royal Guards to protect the King, Princes & Royal Family from the common People.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Royal_Guard_Regiment

Judge the Police by their Actions:

A) Crime is low
B) Police Killing and Hyperventilation is high
C) US Incarceration Rates are among highest in the World
D) US incarceration Rate for Non-Violent Crime is among highest in the World
E) US Is A Military Republic with Constitution, called a Liberal Democracy, Called a Free Market, but Activism & Protests are a problem for Authorities, Police, who Pepper Spray little girls, Hand Cup Women, Arrest old Men & Women, and forbid free and open protesting in most public places... while suggesting nothing as alternative
F) USA deprives Public of National Referendums, while passing sweeping Social Policies with criminal, civil, monetary, and Tax Costs to the "Free" people
G) Few Adults really believe we have Representation in Washington DC through General Elections while Lobbyist and Wealthy have total and Exclusive Access to Presidents & Legislators
H) Prerequisites to a Liberal Democracy are a Middle Class and a "State of Justice", but Industry has been decapitalized, Debt is Exponential in all Sectors, Banks have FULL Charter to Create Money without Limits, and Civil and Criminal Court System is too expensive for Redress of Common Man or Woman against Corporations or the Wealthy OR the Government Itself... Besides all Government Covered up Financial Crimes in 2008 depriving the USA of a "State of Justice"

Tue, 12/02/2014 - 01:36 | 5507569 Bemused Observer
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"Hand Cup Women"?

My God, will our inexorable descent into complete barbarism ever end? Hand cupping of a nation's women...its frickin' WOMEN for chrissakes!...well, that's just too much to bear...

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:28 | 5505810 Notsobadwlad
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To state the obvious: putting weapons of war in the hands of the police gives them an incentive to go to war instead of an incentive to create a mutually beneficial peace.

However, I believe it is absolutely the intention of the federal government to create a war between the local police (and local governments) and the people they are supposed to represent and serve, so that the federal government can usurp more control and gain more power.

It is diabolical (literally).

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:48 | 5505873 graveheart
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In my little slice of the USA, living in the same small town for almost 19 years, I see no evidence of police state activities other than in the media. Police out here rarely even ticket people until after being warned. I've ran into Police and BLM Rangers only a couple of times in that period, never had a bad encounter. Don't know what to make of it all.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 19:11 | 5506383 RabbitOne
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This is about militarizing police in large population centers to handle the collapse of America…

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 16:54 | 5505898 NuYawkFrankie
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Relax!

If you don't operate a lemonade stand you have nothing to fear!

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:00 | 5505928 Meat Hammer
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The body cameras are for keeping an eye on us, not them.

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:14 | 5505988 Bemused Observer
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THIS is what they want to spend taxpayer dollars on? Fuck them!
My 'tax paying' days are over...except of course the sales taxes on the stuff I buy new, which isn't much. So these bastards can use YOUR money for this crap...Just keep in mind that YOU are paying for this shit.
A good old-fashioned economic collapse will put an end to this nonsense...it can't come fast enough. When their stupid dollar is worthless, they'll have to start paying their thugs in gold...oh wait! They don't HAVE any left...
Ha ha bitches! You ain't getting MINE!

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:15 | 5505996 WarPony
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THIS .. has been coming since Gordan Kahl, Ruby Ridge, Waco and was shut down in Montana at the Freemen standoff.  They went back to the drawing board, tweaked the machine, had a few false flags (OK City bombing, church & school shootings) and the agenda is back on track.

This isn't about a single POTUS as the agenda has been in play since Bush I, Clinton, Bush II and now Zero.  Remember Kissinger's admonition about begging for blue helmets in the streets?  The "elites" want a confrontation that they are sure they can win.  In Montana they knew they would lose as the resistance was nationwide, directed at all politicians and well populated, but that was almost twenty years ago.

 

As knukles said about "Bill Ayres right down the slippery slope to concentration camps" this thing is a Terminator and IT WILL NOT STOP until it KILLS you (physically, financially, spiritually, etc.).  It's called the New World Order and there is only ONE WAY TO STOP IT.  RESISTANCE at ALL levels.

Good hunting!

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 17:51 | 5506144 dizzyfingers
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Al Sharpton at the White House as Obama proposes $263 million plan to put body-worn cameras in police departments and reviews police 'militarization'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2855715/Obama-hold-White-House-meetings-Ferguson.html#ixzz3KgYVR3YZ

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 19:08 | 5506370 RabbitOne
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This is about 300,000,000 firearms in the hands of 50,000,000 Americans and the coming end of the American fiat currency, destruction the central bank, termination of the petro dollar and collapse of America as the world’s reserve currency. When this happens they believe our firearms will be held in check by Obama’s police state… 

Mon, 12/01/2014 - 21:57 | 5506995 AdvancingTime
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Governments are ramping up fear as an excuse to expand their control. Will terrorists kill innocent civilians in the years to come? Of course. They did so more than 100 years ago, when they were called anarchists—and a responsible nation-state must take reasonable measures to protect its citizens. But there is no way to completely eliminate terrorism.

The challenge that confronts us is how we will live with that threat. We have created a massive economy of fear, an industry of fear, a national psychology of fear. Al Qaeda could never have achieved that on its own. We have inflicted it on ourselves. the article below delves deeper into how we have built a massive and expensive industry to strip us of our liberties because of fear.

http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-terrorist-under-every-bed.html

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