Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks

Herk- from what i read- the only actual article is a press release from a company announcing it got a contract to refurbish MRAP's- which is probably exactly what you are talking about.

 

Anyone wish to be the first to step up to 145?

 

And I find your blatant mischaracterization of my position rather appalling.

That's awful but I don't see how that's relevant to militarization of our police forces. Do you think they'd still be alive if they had an MRAP or something?

And I am against the militarization of our domestic police forces, which is causing death and destruction to many innocent lives. It saddens me that so many Americans disagree with that.

 

news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/030513-646857-dhs-buys-special-armored-fighting-vehicles.htm

Hopefully this link will work.

If not, Google this: DHS buys special armored fighting vehicles

(it is in Investor's Business Daily)

 

This is nothing but the Obama Admin gearing up for civil unrest due to his destructive policies. Yet, he wants to disarm The People.

 

No one?

 

Actually I think I figured it out.

One of the threads originally referred to a story at Business Insider. That story linked to a press release about 2700 vehicles being refitted, and to a story in Spanish by Russia Today- which said that they were for the DHS.

Business Insider has corrected their story:

http://www.businessinsider.com/homeland-security-serving-warrants-mrap-2013-3


Update: An earlier version of this post included a figure of over 2,700 vehicles, as cited from the original RT link. This figure likely comes from a press release from Navistar Defense, mentioning delivery of 2,717 to the U.S. Marine Corps. A DHS Spokesman confirmed with Business Insider that they have only 16 nationwide.


As most of us suspected, this was much, much ado about nothing.

 

Because the military industrial complex lobby is one of the most powerful lobbies in the country.

It's what happens when you give corporations complete and total access to our lawmakers. They become the only constituent that matters. You think those tanks are destined for gated communities? LOL No, they are made to control the masses.

Good luck with those guns folks.....

 

Yeah....
Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were shot and wounded early this morning when gunfire erupted during a raid on a home in east Petaluma, federal officials say.

Federal raid In Petaluma
A suspect is in custody, ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said in a statement.

The 4 a.m. raid, part of a massive law enforcement sweep this morning at 12 locations around the Bay Area, stemmed from an investigation into a 2010 triple homicide in South San Francisco, said Mike Brosnan, operations captain for South San Francisco Police.

Agents dragged their wounded colleagues to cover behind a massive armored, tank-like truck that was parked at an angle in the street, said Chris Flanary, a neighbor who witnessed the raid from the nearby sidewalk.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120503/COMMUNITY/120509872/0/fast?p=2&tc=pg

 

Sounds like they'll put these tanks to good use then. Of course having them rumbling around the streets kinda makes us communist Russia...

 

As end our participation in these wars, we should end up with surplus equipment. So far though from the size of reductions I have seen proposed, it seems to me, if we only reduce our combat troops by 10% or so, we would only be reducing our need for combat vehicles by about 10% or so. And storing them away, or supplying them to National Guard Units to keep stored away seems like the most likely use.

What strikes about this thread though was how much people WANT to believe that Obama and the DHS were plotting to subjugate all of America and that this rumor must be true.

 

What strikes me is the fact that when it was believed that the DHS was acquiring 2700 armored vehicles there were several posters who were all for it.

 

Homeland Security Drones Designed to Identify Civilians Carrying Guns:

Recently uncovered government documents reveal that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) unmanned Predator B drone fleet has been custom designed to identify civilians carrying guns and track cell phone signals.

“I am very concerned that this technology will be used against law-abiding American firearms owners,” said founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, Alan Gottlieb. “This could violate Fourth Amendment rights as well as Second Amendment rights.”

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) obtained a partially redacted copy of Homeland Security’s drone requirements through a Freedom of Information Act request; CNET uncovered an unredacted copy.

Homeland Security design requirements specify that its Predator B drones “shall be capable of identifying a standing human being at night as likely armed or not” and must be equipped with “interception” systems capable of reading cell phone signals.


Read more: http://conservativebyte.com/2013/03...entify-civilians-carrying-guns/#ixzz2MsTbLYec

 

the contract in the previous fact check link states that it was a Navy contract, that reads USMC to most of us and they rarely have equipment that is identical to Army issue. they have this thing about making it easy to get them ready to drive ashore...even if they use them in a desert. god bless 'em.

the USAF is more easy going. need new uniforms? phffft...they just dye some army ones blue.

 

Americans are totally ill prepared for an attempt at an authoritarian clamp down, imo.

They do have gus, but you need more than that.

 

I find it difficult to quite grasp the whole matter of post #145. What are you asking and to whom and about what?

 

What strikes me is that what you describe is exactly the same phenomenon which prevents some of you Obamabots from recognizing that there are STILL many issues about his past which remain unexplored or unrevealed or where the truth is still fuzzy.

We see these matters and want to get to the truths of them.

You settle for a facade of the facts and wish not to look any further because the facade satisfies your level of curiosity? Maybe to some degree, but more likely, you know that anything that is found in a more thorough investigation and attempt at fully vetting him will threaten his reputation or status and you just love him so much no amount of dirt or crime would disqualify him in your eyes, so you'd rather just try to stifle any talk of his lack of vetting or his lack of qualification.

We patriots saw what turned out to be an innaccurate story about the DHS buying 2700 MRAPS and that's what we wanted to be true so we looked no further for the truth.

You Obamabots saw Obama's propaganda and superficially thorough life story and that's all you wanted to see because you wanted it to be true.

 

It is clear, surely???

 

I guess the combined population of PF has simply made a "resident Muslim poster" statement to your post as the "resident Muslim posters" lack of response to my thread...

http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...hey-read-anti-islam-posts.html#post1062371497

...constituted a statement from PF's Muslims.