Anti] Everyone on these forums knows that you and gfit hate all laws and all law enforcement.
Since you didn't really address anything I said at all and instead decided to focus on Vermi's post ill just address a few things. This is completely false and disingenuous, I have family that are in law enforcement and we have debated this at length in PM's previously as you well know.
Anti]I don't think it's fair to let you guys keep believing that all law enforcement profile/target prior military.
The officer in the video uses the rational that prior military are coming back from the wars with the ability to defeat police tactics (IED making, advanced training) as justification for the use of MRAP's. I'd wager his comments are not just isolated to him and part of broader training and policy. There are memo's and declassified documents that clearly relate upside down flags and don't tread on me jacks as extremist paraphernalia. I clearly stated that they have these threat assessments for other groups and all kinds of scenarios as well.
Anti]The very people that protect you
The police have never protected me and this is the biggest myth surrounding police.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=0Police, 99% of the time arrive after the fact and it is the duty of every individual to first protect themselves. This plays into the whole argument that the populous should be armed the same way the police are if they so choose, this is not the case however and what my point has been from the beginning. Domestic policing does not require weapons designed for foreign battlefields either.
99% of the time police are revenue generators for their state/county and scolded, reprimanded or fired for not generating enough revenue.
http://reason.com/reasontv/2013/07/24/how-quotas-pervert-police-priorities-firAnti]Every state has their own set of laws, and every department has their own policy. So making generalizations about cops gearing up to fight a war is ridiculous. In a department of 3000+ deputies, on average, they have about 40-50 SRT members with advanced equipment. The rest of us carry around a handgun and a vest.
This is partly true, the different municipalities do have some variations between local law and policy related to that law. Cops are being outfitted with uniform gear across the board. This is a fact. I'd wager you have an AR-15 platform (whether select fire or semi-automatic) either in your trunk or within your police vehicle do you not?
Police forces across the nation are being outfitted with MRAP's and other military surplus.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/n...police/7337463/Whether you've seen it or not yet does not make the practice of uniformly arming police any less the case.
http://www.cato.org/events/rise-warrior-cop-militarization-americas-police-forcesPolice training has been geared at making every officer SRT capable and interchangeable. So they can conduct no-knock raids and other tasks deemed 'high-risk.'
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_...occupying_forceYou probably wont agree with any of this but these implications and indictments should be concerning to even you.
So once again.. why do police
need MRAP's and other military gear?
