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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Pentagon Offering FREE Military Hardware To All Police Departments In The United States. What Does This Mean?

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

Robert Johnson | Dec. 5, 2011, 11:09 AM

The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will.

We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up and it turns out a lot of these weapons are going straight to American police forces to be used against US citizens.

Benjamin Carlson at The Daily reports on a little known endeavor called the "1033 Program" that gave more than $500 million of military gear to U.S. police forces in 2011 alone.

1033 was passed by Congress in 1997 to help law-enforcement fight terrorism and drugs, but despite a 40-year low in violent crime, police are snapping up hardware like never before. While this year's staggering take topped the charts, next year's orders are up 400 percent over the same period.

This upswing coincides with an increasingly military-like style of law enforcement most recently seen in the Occupy Wall Street crackdowns.

Tim Lynch, director of the Cato Institute's project on criminal justice told The Daily, “The trend toward militarization was well under way before 9/11, but it’s the federal policy of making surplus military equipment available almost for free that has poured fuel on this fire.”

From The Daily:

Thanks to it, cops in Cobb County, Ga. — one of the wealthiest and most educated counties in the U.S. — now have an amphibious tank. The sheriff of Richland County, S.C., proudly acquired a machine-gun-equipped armored personnel carrier that he nicknamed “The Peacemaker.”

This comes on top of grants from the Department of Homeland Security that enable police departments to buy vehicles such as “BearCats” — 16,000-pound bulletproof trucks equipped with battering rams, gun ports, tear-gas dispensers and radiation detectors. To date, more than 500 of these tank-like vehicles have been sold by Lenco, its Massachusetts-based manufacturer, according to a report in the Orlando Sentinel.

“It’s kind of had a corrupting influence on the culture of policing in America,” Lynch says. “The dynamic is that you have some officer go to the chief and say, people in the next county have [military hardware], if we don’t take it some other city will. Then they acquire the equipment, they create a paramilitary unit, and everything seems fine.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/program-1033-military-equipment-police-2011-12#ixzz1fmNqHIFp

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

December 6, 2011 @ 6:14 am
Business Insider | The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will.
http://truthiscontagious.com/2011/12/06/the-pentagon-is-offering-free-military-hardware-to-every-police-department-in-the-us-2

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» moonsovermyhammy Mon Dec 05, 2011 06:32 PM
Sounds like a great deal for our budget pressed police forces.
» 2ndTubetop Mon Dec 05, 2011 06:36 PM
awesome. Ya militarized police force has been happening for while now. and is sick. Really makes me wonder. It didnt take long for the military industrial complex to creep into our world. We dont just benefit from the spending we will eventually become the recipients of such devices. Eisenhower warned against this.
» Meatstick___Time (OP) • Mon Dec 05, 2011 06:42 PM
they are slowly but surely getting us used to this fact

hear the new police sirens yet?
» BootsyC Tue Dec 06, 2011 01:43 AM
Do you think I can get one of those Buffalo vehicles from afghanistan?
» bunchofsomthin Tue Dec 06, 2011 02:23 AM
Interesting. The comments are great.
» Phenon Tue Dec 06, 2011 02:27 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Meatstick___Time
they are slowly but surely getting us used to this fact

hear the new police sirens yet?


No. Details?
» spunions Tue Dec 06, 2011 02:53 AM
OWS is so worried about a police state, yet they want to tell you where to shop, how to spend your money, where to spend your money. where to do your banking...

that sounds like more of a police state than Orwell's 1984..
» Jeff_Skaggs Tue Dec 06, 2011 03:09 AM
i prefer slapping criminals on the hands with a ruler and putting them in "time out"
» Meatstick___Time (OP) • Tue Dec 06, 2011 09:33 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Phenon
Quote:
Originally Posted by Meatstick___Time
they are slowly but surely getting us used to this fact

hear the new police sirens yet?


No. Details?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOXACiBEmfw
» treyphan420 Tue Dec 06, 2011 09:37 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by spunions
OWS is so worried about a police state, yet they want to tell you where to shop, how to spend your money, where to spend your money. where to do your banking...

that sounds like more of a police state than Orwell's 1984..


This has nothing to do with OWS, moron. Where have you been the last 10 years?
» jimmysdad Tue Dec 06, 2011 09:39 AM
its funny all this oppression and people cried about republicans being the big brother
» Meatstick___Time (OP) • Tue Dec 06, 2011 09:48 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by jimmysdad
its funny all this oppression and people cried about republicans being the big brother


yup it is the same party with the same agendas. all one big illusion to get ppls emotions going against one side and the other alike. so they do not look at the truth behind the scene.
» CleanCutJoe Tue Dec 06, 2011 09:49 AM
wizard of oz'd/ohbears'd/tranny behind the curtain'd
» washyrfeetz Tue Dec 06, 2011 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff_Skaggs
i prefer slapping criminals on the hands with a ruler and putting them in "time out"


And the fact that you can't find a common sense approach between your simplton understanding and giving military hardware to police departments is a solid explanation as to why we live int he world we live in... Bravo!
» coredweller Tue Dec 06, 2011 09:56 AM
greeaaatt so our money strapped country has piles of unused weapons

what a great way to spend our money

NO education you cant have money to teach our children, we need to pump out more helicopters and guns to sit in a stockpile somewhere.

very sad time we live in
» Meatstick___Time (OP) • Tue Dec 06, 2011 10:15 AM
just another brick in the police state wall

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