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

[Lorien]

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.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/program-1033-military-equipment-police-2011-12#comments#ixzz1fkF0awWM

[aquart]

1. Cool. We can cut the defense budget by 500 million.

What? It's a start.

[Lorien]

3. They aren't cutting anything from the budget

it's surplus that can now become "toys" for cops who are bored with pepper spray, rubber bullets and batons.

[sabrina 1]

6. The militarization of the police continues. The 1% own them

now and intend to use them, as we've witnessed, to protect them should the people finally have had enough, all over the world. Global cops. They are the same everywhere now, you can't tell the difference. And they train together, our cops train with Bahrain's cops, imagine that, a dictatorship that murders its citizens, has our cops training with theirs and they all wear the same robo cop outfits.

But I have also read that the military is 'deploying' units to the 'homeland' now. Published in the Army Times in 2008.

[defendandprotect]

18. No ... they'd have to begin manufacturing and restocking these items ... !!

And we'd be paying for it -- AGAIN --

Simply about militarization of our police --

Obviously elites/corporations are worried about protecting their 1% asses!!

[Lorien]

2. I gotta wonder who is unreccing this and why

someone doesn't want us talking about the obvious.

[ixion]

5. I think we know who they are...

the same crowd that suddenly finds the Bush-Obama Doctrine of Endless War isn't so bad now that Obama is in the WH.

[rhett o rick]

14. The so-called centrists that are repbulicons hiding behind a big D. nm

[Norrin Radd]

4. kr

[Octafish]

7. Got to keep the Mob under control -- meaning We the People are the Enemy.

There must be no interruption of board meetings and golf.

Thank you for the heads-up, Lorien. That is very important news that slipped under the peace radar.

[Lorien]

11. Coming right on the heels of the "defense act", drones scheduled to be used inside

the U.S., snooping cell phones, etc. They aren't hiding their intentions too much, though the only ones who really are aware of it all are those who were paying attention in the first place. We're the ones they want to spook.

[Octafish]

12. Frank Church warned us, back in 1975.

I remember it well:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x90614


Frank Church and the Abyss of Warrantless Wiretapping.

[defendandprotect]

20. And all of the intelligence agencies have only grown ... IKE also warned re MIC -- !!

In fact, Ike included "intelligence" in his statement and it was removed from

the draft --

Ike again put "intelligence" in and it was removed again -- !!

That's according to Fletcher Prouty --


:hi:



Loved Frank Church -- and seems he was immediately targeted!!





Just editing to add that I've on one or two occassions had some sense that there is

some part of non-corporate military/Pentagon left -- enough to fight back in small

ways. Guess Sy Hersh would be the only one who might comment on something like that --

and last time I read something of his he seemed to be saying that Cheney networks are

still in place!! ???

[Javaman]

8. Queue the death star music.

nothing but exploiting an already growing market.

we all fear the rise of a new type of "brown shirt", well folks, rather than it being a big showy display of force, the brown shirts have come in on kittens paws.

and here we are.

[ensho]

9. the pentagon should be turned into an apt. house and aircraft carriers

should be turned into universities

NO to war and the military - world wide

global warning trumps all

[defendandprotect]

22. "Global Warming trumps all" --- !!!

That also makes OIL a national security issue -- !!

No Oil/No war -- !!


Air Force was actually talking about solar operated planes!

[sarcasmo]

10. Police State.

[Blue Owl]

13. Protect and Serve the 1%

n/t

[Owl]

15. K&R

[unionworks]

16. K&R n/t

[socialindependocrat]

17. Our tax dollars at work - against us!!!!

We need to find a way to stop laws and decisions that don't benefit the American people!!!

We're footing the bill!!!

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[Horse with no Name]

21. When the eyes are finally open

It will be too late....but I fear it almost is anyway.

[99th_Monkey]

23. But Wait!!! I thought the US MIlitary would come save us!!!!!!

silly me.. never mind.

apparently uniforms and weapons are a bad combination, sucks any
sense of REAL "patriotism" or kindness right out of you.

my bad.

[KG]

24. but, but, we don't live in a police state!

:eyes:

[area51]

25. Consequences

The military budget is the reason why we don't have a right to health care in this country.