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American Cops Are More Heavily Armed than Front Line U.S. Combat Soldiers In Active War Zones
Rafael Rivera - who served in the U.S. Army for seven years - writes:
The police in Ferguson have better armor and weaponry than my men and I did in the middle of a war. And Ferguson isn’t alone — police departments across the US are armed for war.
The Hill notes:
[Senator] McCaskill pointed out that in some places local police departments are more heavily armed than the National Guard.
Business Insider points out:
Someone identifying himself as an 82nd Airborne Army veteran, observing the Ferguson police scene, comment[ed] that “We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone”
Constitutional and civil rights lawyer John Whitehead notes that homeland security officers within the U.S. have three times as much ammunition as front-line soldiers in Afghanistan (and possess a type of ammunition that is banned in war zones).
Huffington Post reports:
Many combat veterans have since pointed out that the SWAT officers are more heavily armed and outfitted than they themselves were while patrolling the streets of Iraq or Afghanistan.
Indeed, many veterans have noted that American police are more heavily armed than they were when serving on the front line (click for 9 tweets which I can't figure out how to embed).
The extreme militarization of American police is as anti-American as it gets.
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I am glad this story came out. It has been in my subconcious for sometime - that the police are really getting tooled up. I mean getting ready. The average cop has what, 3 weapons on him at any given time: primary side arm, back up side arm, tazer and at least a shotgun in the car but most likely an M4. Plus a nice radio and full trauma kit in the trunk of his souped up ford. If a cop gets shot, he goes to the hospital. If you get shot, you go to the hospital and they arrest you before you get treated and you probably die handcuffed to the bed while they crack jokes and take selfies with you like a hunting trophy. power corrupts and these motherfuckers have some power.
If I were in the states, right about now I would be establising a network of trustworthy friends and family....and I sure as fuck wouldn't be doing it via email and facebook adn zerohedge. You will need friends and people you have known for decades. The network is what will save you. Not the number of weapons you have because at the end of the day, not only do the police have the firepower, they have the LAW behind them. They can murder with impunity. You cannot. They get paid to hunt and kill. You have to work full time to survive. Unlike the Afghan insurgent, you also are in a forrest of CCTV cameras and a full on intelligence gathering society.
Finally, please stop insulting the Middle Eastern Insurgent. They are tough. They are expereienced. They have the faith to kill and die. The average Taliban fighter would very easily beat to death with his own custom built sniper rifle the average fat ass American prepper. Then he would eat lunch next to the dead body. The US has been underestimating these "ragheads" for a very long time and look where it has gotten them.
Edit: i also highly recommend this book series - http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/
Still at it as am I eh? That's ok. You can't help it. It's just the narrative of the day or week or month or year or whatever you do. At least in your comments you highlight obeez tyrannical nature. I actually up arrowed for that.
See I'm not a bad guy, I am reasonable. But your still Insist on playing your game so I will play mine. Game on!!!
Or maybe you are just a bot. Maybe I am too!!
Is that so. Then where are the cops hiding mortars, grenade launchers, recoilless rifles, tanks, 50 cal machine guns, cobra copters, F5 jets, B52 and stealth bombers, and the bigger bomb laden drones?
up their ass
Front line soldiers have all of the above at their disposal even if they dont physically carry the armament.
And the cops should be. The niggers in all inner cities who have been brainwashed by the jew to hate whitey, is a million times more of a threat to us than the fucking civilians the military is just mowing down for the hell of it. All for Israel.
Het SCHULD=H00P-principe werkt zodanig dat wanneer 'de H00P' niet uitkomt, 'Je SCHULD' groter wordt.
http://nos.nl/artikel/2035454-dijsselbloem-duwen-en-trekken-met-griekenl...
Eurogroepvoorzitter Dijsselbloem zei voor aanvang van de wekelijkse ministerraad dat 'de tijd opraakt, want het huidige hulpprogramma loopt eind juni 2015 echt af'.
Dijsselbloem vond het positief dat het IMF nog wat tijd heeft gecreëerd. Maar die tijd moet door netwerk WitteGejT wel benut worden om echt heel hard te werken! Ondertussen blijft netwerk @MinPres in de ministerraad (voor het geval ambtenaren gaan lekken aan ...?!?!?) verkondigen dat ze 'niet voor verdragswijziging' in lijn met de 'Logica van de 1' zijn. Dit is de taak voor TimmerendeFrans. Hij weet dat er “goede indicaties” zijn dat het ParadigmaConflict met betrekking tot het geheim houden van de definitie van de absolute waarheid eerst binnenkamers kan worden opgelost, voordat netwerk Juncker ook netwerk @0ranjePapegaaY gaat bevestigen dat "Het huidige beleid hypocriet, schizofreen en inconsistent is".
http://nos.nl/artikel/2034747-van-vollenhoven-softdrugsbeleid-is-hypocri...
Dat zelfs het geweten van oud-Kamervoorzitter Gerdi Verbeet de 'wiskundige definitie van de absolute waarheid' niet kon verinnerlijken met haar intuïtie zorgde voor een (collectief) bewustzijn die het Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei geen goed zal doen.
http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/05/06/verbeet-nieuwe-voorzitter-nationaal-...
Gerrit Verbroekken (56 jaar) en Ked Weber (46 jaar) runnen in de 'Parodie op de Waarheid' het personeel van hotel GradjA en ...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-05/next-round-crisis-our-doorstep#...
... daarin speelde BroerPiet (rol is voor de burgemeester van Hilversum) voor een bestuurslid van Stichting Met Elkaar.
BroerPiet: "Ze dragen ook camera's, om eventuele reacties online te zetten. Ze dienen aanklachten in als iemand agressief tegen ze is."
https://www.iffr.com/nl/iffr-2012/nieuws/pieter-broertjes-voorzitter-raa...
Tijdens de BleusTour in Cuijk zal zal netwerk @SuperWil weer actief mensen inspireren tot ...!?!??
Volgens mij ben je ergens de weg kwijt geraakt. Waar lul je in godsnaam over? Fucking hell man, get a grip.
Um. They might have reasons to hate whitey. Just saying. The whole locking them up at disproportionate rates, the whole shooting them at disproportionate rates, the whole poverty at disproprotionate rates and mind you, I know this was a bit ago, the whole slavery thing followed up by the whole Jim Crow thingie. I have a feeling that perhaps whitey should recondsider his position, in that who is really working for who and who can really bridge the common enemies gap? It is possible that you claim "da Jews" are brainwashing "niggers" to hate you, while it could be equally true that "da Jews" are brainwashing you to hate "niggers".
Totalitarian societies tend to start rounding up the real people who could make real problems for them, first. They vilify these people. So, maybe rethink this?
Otherwise you would have to actually believe that blacks are dumber and more prone to violence then whites. Keep in mind, whites didn't conquer the whole world by being such super nice guys.... Are blacks inferior to whites? If you answer no, again, I would rethink your thesis. If you answer yes, you are most likely just a fucktard racist. Controlled by "da Jews".
U ain't seen nothing yet.
10 million illigals will have a great impact in most Americasn cities. The majority of Blacks believe that Hispanics will ally with them and sing happy songs around inner city campfires. We shall see.
These days they are still human.
Soon it will be all automated. Total massive ralebots, drones and swarms of drones... To say the least.
Yes and more of the invisible ones ...
I'm wearing my tinfoil hat right now too!
I jest, but yeah, they are totally gonna fuck us up.
Permanent Fema camps for Baltimore are looking more reasonable every day.
The cops ai't got air strikes, artillery, or shrapnel producing munitions...yet.
Rivera..not sure how much gear an MOS13F is carrying in the field...versus the guys actually in the field....11 Bravo.
Posse coming at us.
The US government has attacked it's own vets in the past why would it think twice about attacking it's citizens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL6X17CrIb4
It's my guess that they'll need all of that pretty soon, and what's more American that a 'Gestapo' type surveillance NSA and heavily armed death squads? Come on, you trust your government right?
Indicative of who TPTB perceive as the real enemy.
how else are you going to get a bunch of pigs in a pen without providing good slop?
these guys are scary because real soldiers are motivated by real fear and these guys are motivated by creating fear while having nothing to fear. they must measure dick size as part of the academy entrance application. only small brains and small dicks need apply.
Answer. Because the US was taken over by the NWO and the government is preparing to kill us.
When governmnet gives up their guns, only then would I, and my garden, consider doing same.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
"Well armed sheep produce little fleece and no mutton."
At the beginning of the year, an acquittance of mine went on a tour of the local thug citadel (police department) with his son's class. He said that he was shocked by what he saw, as the thugs were more than happy to show off their "riot room" and weapons--all couched in the pretense of "serve and protect." Combined with that, and the unease that he had about what the thugs in Ferguson had done post-murder, he, and his garden, now own an arsenal.
Yes, George, the US police are better armed with their 9mm whatevers and armorless cruisers than the army with its m16s and ar15s, handgrenades, grenade lauchers, anti-tank weapons, phosphorous bombs, and atomic weapons. If you believe this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you. You are so funny!
Hey dumbass...if you observe the SWAT teams they are carrying m16's and mp5's and fully suited with body armor with magazines attached on velcro and pistols hanging on their belts next to their tighs. They are also wearing kevlar helmet and and face covers and safety glasses.
Obviously you have never been in combat nor ever serve my country (because it seems you're not an American). You should also know that an American combat soldier does not carry nuclear weapon.
But they are vastly outnumbered.
How about we go with "Are the police forces over mIlitarized?" Now what do You think?
Smedly, They are but Soldiers on the Home Front in The Great War of Terror. They are here to Protect us...
LOL
My all time favorite hero is the ferguson LEO idiot on top of the Hunvee with his jungle camos and manning an auto weapon on a stick. He's probAbly on a website as SealTeamSixIncognitoRangerOne. Hilarious
I would have sworn I was about to hear the crack of a 30-06 that night...
Actually George didn't say it.... he quoted others.
US military policy since WW1 has been to kill American men while at the same time waging an economic cultural ethnic war against American women with mass immigration.
We send our Police to be trained in Israel. When they return should we be surprised they treat us like Israelis treat Palestinians? Israel: America's CURSE >>> http://wp.me/p4OZ4v-3z
Sadly, I forsee a day when A-10s will be brought out of AMARC in order to make strafing runs on American towns, and American cities.
DU comes home.
Not needed. One has to only remenber the three little pigs story. Stick and straw houses don't do so well in confict areas.
Commifornia. Why do you ask?
Think it was meant for me and i will respond if so.
That was for WTFUD - speaks of America in third person So was wondering
SBG i'm no fixed abode.
Non answer.
VWAndy can i be sure you don't work for GCHQ ie NSA?
Well check out this. My youtube videos. Turning rotors fast. Or. Some good brake lathe habits.
Thats me doing honest work.
The USSofA is infringing on my non-lethal trade with Russia, China and Iran.
Ah. Nice catch. Thanks for pointing it out.
Go for it- I agree with the track I think you're on. We're a long way from Protect and Serve but How or rather who got us here?
That my friend remains to be seen. But I bet them cops hold a vital clue. Tho they dont understand yet.
Fuck the Cops
GW The Cops are going to get what's coming to them.
NOW GW were you anywhere near Virginia when they were handing out 42 months to Jeffrey Sterling ( Prosecution wanted 20 years, painting him as a disgruntled LONE WOLF ).
You Americans are SO FULL OF SHIT WITH YOUR BIG FUCKING TALK; YOU'RE WINDBAGS ( FUCKING DISINGENUOUS BLOWHARDS ) who deserve EVERYTHING that's coming to you.
There should have been ONE MILLION FUCKING PEOPLE OUTSIDE THAT COURT IN VIRGINIA. STERLING IS NOT THE BLACK THUG YOU CUNTS DENIGRATE!
So in a fair world when your O'Leader attacks YET AGAIN another WHISTLEBLOWER WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?
GET ON THE STREET IF YOU GIVE A FUCK, YOU TOO GW.
FUCKING SHAMEFUL, FUCKING DISGUSTING, FUCKING DISGRACE.
bullshit.
sterling blew the whistle on a legit op that hadn't a goddam thing to do with american civil liberties.
he was/is a petulant brat who figured that, since his skin-pigment was sufficent to secure his initial hiring at the agency, promotions and plum assignments should necessarily follow for that same reason.
often times, those with the advantage of legally protected pigment think everything should be handed to them irrespective of work-ethic, acumen or ability; and when it isn't, the hissy-fits come fast & furious.
former agent sterling: preformance still counts in this world...maybe you'll learn that in the pen.
{the preceeding comments in no way represent an endorsement of the cia or any of its shenanigans}
janus
Conducted himself magnanimously fuckwit!
Keep your head buried in the sand. Let the Cabal continue unperturbed. There's a good fellow.
sticks & stones.
i ain't your fuckin enemy.
all i'm sayin is: choose your battles wisely. endorsing this piece of shit deprecates your integrity.
and, yes, you are playing into a trap...but think whatever you will.
janus