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Coming soon to your
local sheriff: 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with
gun turrets and bulletproof glass that were once the U.S. answer to
roadside bombs during the Iraq war.
The
hulking vehicles, built for about $500,000 each at the height of the
war, are among the biggest pieces of equipment that the Defense
Department is giving to law enforcement agencies under a national
military surplus program.
For police and
sheriff's departments, which have scooped up 165 of the mine-resistant
ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPS, since they became available this
summer, the price and the ability to deliver shock and awe while serving
warrants or dealing with hostage standoffs was just too good to pass
up.
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This NOT going to have a "happy ending". Now that these departments have their new toys they will now have to find a mission for them, to justify the cost ect, ect. Then mission creep will set in as the find new "reasons" for having them. And as soon as one LEO dept gets an additional military item, the word will get out and they will soon demand to have it as well. The losers in all of this will be the citizens, as they will be and are being viewed as the enemy. The LEOs already have a shoot first and ask questions later mentality.
ReplyDeleteThe LEOs already have a shoot first and ask questions later mentality.
DeleteCertainly, many of them do.
so it's time for us to "spoil their war" so to speak
ReplyDeleteYup.
DeleteA Dew can of Thermite over the differential takes the 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass from a danger and turns it into a planter.
ReplyDeleteBadger
Thanks.
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