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  • Police Now 'Armed For War' Against Returning Veterans...

    Paul Joseph Watson
    Infowars.com
    May 16, 2014
    In an interview with Fox 59, a Morgan County, Indiana Police Sergeant admits that the increasing militarization of domestic police departments is partly to deal with returning veterans who are now seen as a homegrown terror threat.

    In a chilling story entitled Armed for War: Pentagon surplus gives local police an edge, we learn how a Mine Resistant Vehicle (MRAP) which was once used during the occupation of Afghanistan will now be “patrolling the streets of central Indiana,” according to the report.
    Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department states, “When I first started we really didn’t have the violence that we see today,” adding, “The weaponry is totally different now that it was in the beginning of my career, plus, you have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build IEDs and to defeat law enforcement techniques.”
    Downing goes on to relate how citizens approach the vehicle when it stops at gas stations to express their concerns that the militarization of police is about arming cops with the tools required for mass gun confiscation programs.
    “We were actually approached when we’d stop to get fuel by people wanting to know why we needed this…what were we going to use it for? ‘Are you coming to take our guns away?’” said Downing. “To come and take away their firearms…that absolutely is not the reason why we go this vehicle. We got this vehicle because of the need and because of increased violence that we have been facing over the last few years….I’ll be the last person to come and take anybody’s guns.”
    Indiana seems to be a major trial balloon for the militarization of law enforcement given that the Indiana National Guard has also just purchased two military UH-72 Lakota helicopters which will also be used by local police and the DHS for “homeland security missions”. Downing’s claim that armored tanks are necessary to deal with violent crime doesn’t jive with actual statistics which suggest that violent crime is in fact on the decrease.
    Downing’s admission that the armored vehicles are partly about combating the threat posed by returning veterans correlates with similar rhetoric at the federal level.
    An April 2009 DHS intelligence assessment listed returning vets as likely domestic terrorists. Just a month later, the New York Times reported on how Boy Scout Explorers were being trained by the DHS to kill “disgruntled Iraq war veterans” in terrorist drills.
    The FBI has also repeatedly characterized returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan as a major domestic terrorist threat.
    It seems to have been completely forgotten by police departments, the media and Americans in general that having military-style tanks patrol the streets is symbolic of a collapsing banana republic or an authoritarian Communist state.
    Perhaps the main reason why police officers are being trained that veterans are a major threat is because returning vets are in a perfect position to recognize that America is beginning to resemble an occupied country like Afghanistan.
    Such warnings have come from people like former Marine Corps Colonel Peter Martino, who was stationed in Fallujah and trained Iraqi soldiers. Martino went before a New Hampshire city council meeting last year to assert that the Department of Homeland Security is working with law enforcement to build a “domestic army,” because the federal government is afraid of its own citizens.
    Indeed, the city’s Police Chief justified the necessity for the acquisition of an armored ‘Bearcat’ vehicle by citing the “threat” posed by libertarians, sovereign citizen adherents, and Occupy activists in the region.

    Fox 59 video at link, too.
    "Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul Harvey

  • #2
    I wonder how long until the PD start getting SAWs: squadcar automatic rifles.

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    • #3
      If you think that local cops are more well armed than the populace, you are mistaken.
      Originally posted by lincolnboy
      After watching Games of Thrones, makes me glad i was not born in those years.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by DOHCTR View Post
        If you think that local cops are more well armed than the populace, you are mistaken.
        They just have the power to use it and if you return fire, they'll keep bringing them in until you and your family is dead. If they can't enter to kill you, they'll just burn the house down around you.
        I wear a Fez. Fez-es are cool

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        • #5
          Originally posted by dohctr View Post
          if you think that local cops are more well armed than me, you are mistaken.
          ftfy

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          • #6
            Originally posted by sc281 View Post
            I wonder how long until the PD start getting SAWs: squadcar automatic rifles.

            I will be breaking into squad cars if I ever see one of these.

            Originally posted by Forever_frost View Post
            They just have the power to use it and if you return fire, they'll keep bringing them in until you and your family is dead. If they can't enter to kill you, they'll just burn the house down around you.
            I feel that killing 5 of them in trade for my life is an even trade. After a few people in every city go down fighting the local PDs will change their tune.

            Some one needs to blow up their new toy in the PDs parking lot.
            Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by GhostTX View Post
              Infowars.com
              about as reputable as the onion

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              • #8
                I will always fail to understand why people continue to cite anything that is associated with Alex Jones. It's like getting your religious news from Robert Tilton.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by svo855 View Post
                  I will be breaking into squad cars if I ever see one of these.



                  I feel that killing 5 of them in trade for my life is an even trade. After a few people in every city go down fighting the local PDs will change their tune.

                  Some one needs to blow up their new toy in the PDs parking lot.
                  preemptive strike ftw

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by John -- '02 HAWK View Post
                    about as reputable as the onion
                    Originally posted by LS1Goat View Post
                    I will always fail to understand why people continue to cite anything that is associated with Alex Jones. It's like getting your religious news from Robert Tilton.
                    Nuggets of truth, with a lot of tin foil around it.

                    Violent crime trend has been going down...find whatever source you want. So you gotta scratch your head when the LEOs interviewed say it's going up is justification for getting the equipment.



                    "Self-government won't work without self-discipline." - Paul Harvey

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by John -- '02 HAWK View Post
                      about as reputable as the onion
                      Uhhh.. No.
                      ازدهار رأسه برعشيت

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by matts5.0 View Post
                        Uhhh.. No.
                        Yeah, actually. Alex Jones is a blowhard.
                        ZOMBIE REAGAN FOR PRESIDENT 2016!!! heh

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by YALE View Post
                          Yeah, actually. Alex Jones is a blowhard.
                          I didnt say anything about his character, the site infowars is not like the onion. They have reported some very factual information, that has been posted and credited on this sight. A few years ago, they reported on aliens and other crazy shit, they seem to be trying to go in a different direction as of late.
                          ازدهار رأسه برعشيت

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by GhostTX View Post
                            Nuggets of truth
                            Thats also the basis for science fiction.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by GhostTX View Post
                              Nuggets of truth, with a lot of tin foil around it.

                              Violent crime trend has been going down...find whatever source you want. So you gotta scratch your head when the LEOs interviewed say it's going up is justification for getting the equipment.



                              This is all part of the brainwashing of cops in this country. Just ask any of them here if violence is going down. Based on the equipment it is like Baghdad out there on the streets, which is total bullshit of course.
                              Originally posted by racrguy
                              What's your beef with NPR, because their listeners are typically more informed than others?
                              Originally posted by racrguy
                              Voting is a constitutional right, overthrowing the government isn't.

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