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Ezlivin

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1. Typically these armaments are used in drug raids

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Thu Jun 28, 2012, 08:48 AM

Jun 2012

Even in my small town the local police have an armored personnel carrier and they love to trot that out when anyone is thought to be a grower or running a meth lab.

Without the drug war there would be little call and little use for military-grade weapons.

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Typically these armaments are used in drug raids Ezlivin Jun 2012 #1

Great, now they can launch these against citizens like they RKP5637 Jun 2012 #2

They'll have those suburban food rioters in Zone 6 mopped up in no time leveymg Jun 2012 #3

Or in District 9 FailureToCommunicate Jun 2012 #7

IS MNU a division of RDA or the other way around? Is Weyland Yutani the Holding Company for both? leveymg Jun 2012 #8

Du rec. Nt xchrom Jun 2012 #4

Thanks for bringing more awareness to this trend!! hue Jun 2012 #5

Who's the enemy? AnotherMcIntosh Jun 2012 #6

Excellent question! I often wonder the same. Are "we the people" now the enemy to fear? n/t RKP5637 Jun 2012 #9