I felt that the following comment from Obama Limiting Military Hardware to Police Departments was worthy of its own article. We must have eyes to see and ears to hear to be vigilant as well as free. When tyranny passes for freedom as we now have in this country, there is only one recourse.
David DeGerolamo
Comment from LordChamp:
Remember to watch the other hand. They give with one hand and take with the other.
NOTHING is done by this administration without a political purpose and merely looking good for the media is NOT that purpose. They know looking good doesn’t matter anymore because they will be protected by THEIR government owned media. They could shoot people down in the streets and no one would notice. Oh wait, they already do. Never mind.
Anyways, it appears they are on the road to the nationalizing of the police force. It’s the usual pattern used by the federal government. Start with a carrot, get the local organization hooked, then stop giving it what ever reason they want to make up. Then the locals will BEG for the feds to give back what they were getting. The feds then say, well, we can’t do that unless you give us total control, you can’t be trusted with this much power, only we can.
Look at the education system. That is exactly the tactic they used and continue to use there.
Today nationalized education, next stop nationalized brown shirts totally under federal control.
Anyone still want to believe they don’t intend to totally dominate and control us? This is EXACTLY what the nazi’s did in Germany in the 1920’s and 1930’s. The people then just stood and watched too. I think we all know how that ended.
Do we learn from history this time or continue to let it repeat as we humans usually do.
Go today and read the grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence. I bet you find that almost every one used then against the King of England also applies to us TODAY. That should tell you something about the state of our government today.
Tyranny is tyranny, whether it’s the King of England in the 1700’s, the German government in the 1930’s, or the US government in the 2000’s.
So why are we so quiet. Does freedom mean less to us today than it did our Founders?
Evidently so.
Agree with Lord Champ’s assessment.
There’s also this to consider-
After a four month study-they came up with this:
“The list includes grenade launchers, tracked armored vehicles, armed aircraft, bayonets, and guns and ammunition of .50 caliber or higher.”
Note that the number of police agencies requesting .50 caliber or larger weapons,tracked armored vehicles,and bayonets is zero or near zero-armed aircraft are questionable-as I’m sure some agencies have drones either armed,or capable of being armed.