Militarized police forces today

[flylowgethigh]

People wonder why the cops have a "us vs them" attitude? They may be PTSD inflicted ex-military, they may be losers, who knows. Dress them up like this though, and it sure looks like a war zone.

This is ABQ, NM.

 

[Cannavore]

Probably because armed militias have no authority to attempt to police the behavior of others through a threat of force.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

Trained killers sent home to live around civilians who have no fuken clue that in alot of places right now REGARDLESS of color ....folks find out your an American and wanna cut your head off! No really! They are here in their domestic bubble of misdirected hostility.... all the while causing Americans to fight amongst themselves would be the first thing I'd do as Americans enemy.


It won't end well for snowflakes

 

[audiohi]

It was the prior sheriffs son in that picture who tried to murder someone.

He sat down in the street and called his dad after he did so.

He also ran for office.

Us vs who?

 

[ronbo51]

All of this is deliberately being done to keep us divided so we don't see that the folks at the top have looted all the countries and corporations so that now all that remains is massive debt that we taxpayers are on the hook for. And all your 401K, pensions, have long ago been pledged as collateral in some larger scheme that you don't understand.


Most folks don't know the Dodd-Frank financial bill in 2010, muscled through by the banks and Obama, put depositors on the hook when the next bank crisis hits. Derivatives, the boogie man of the last crisis, was given first crack at a banks assets (I kid you not), and since the universe of bank derivative products is in the quadrillions of dollars, your piddly deposit at the bank will be gone in a nanosecond.

The financial world entered a very unstable atmosphere in late fall when the fed had to step in and provide liquidity in overnight lending as the system began to freeze, again.

Here we are.

 

[flylowgethigh]

Like I said, this was a real financial crisis that they turned into a fake health, then a now a staged security crisis, to cover their tracks. Watch what they do with the election. They control the media, therefore most minds.

And OBTW, they have been trying to neuter and remove Trump from day one. Still are, at great expense to the country. Liberals will rue the day the US dollah is no longer the world accepted reserve currency. When shit like this is all the tee vee shows, how long will that status last?

Right now other countries that traditionally have bought and owned treasuries (ie loaned us their money) to obtain USD denominated assets, are selling them.

And buying gold. Interesting times yet?

Oh yeah, how about the NYC cops? Their official job is to guard the politicians and .guv buildings (not people), but when the DA turns against them... LOL... They stop protecting the DA's office from looters. Man that is where all the case files are - the fines that would not get collected.

As society breaks down and people get desperate, don't be around.

 

[TakenByTheSky]

Thank Obama he gave all sorts of military surplus from the Pentagon to any local PD that wanted it, from Hummers, to fully auto machine guns, grenade launchers, armored vehicles etc..

We had the virus scaring the bejesus out of everyone telling you to stay home and flipping daily life on it's head, the virus brought with it financial devastation and record unemployment, were paying people money to sit home and riot and protest and more money to not work, now we have civil unrest and a growing racial divide, it's hard to not to think that it's not all done on purpose.

 

[hubcap]

I hope we have these same feelings for "civilians" that wield things like Molotov cocktails.


We've ALL lost our shit. People need to take a breath. Calm down. And start acting like human fkn beings.
Otherwise, its just going to be an endless cycle of one-upping each other.
And, we can all guess how that will end.


-cap

 

[Gry]

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Thank Obama he gave all sorts of military surplus from the Pentagon to any local PD that wanted it, from Hummers, to fully auto machine guns, grenade launchers, armored vehicles etc..

We had the virus scaring the bejesus out of everyone telling you to stay home and flipping daily life on it's head, the virus brought with it financial devastation and record unemployment, were paying people money to sit home and riot and protest and more money to not work, now we have civil unrest and a growing racial divide, it's hard to not to think that it's not all done on purpose.

You deliberately over looking the fact that the program was developed years before the past administration, or were you unaware of it?

 

[TakenByTheSky]

You deliberately over looking the fact that the program was developed years before the past administration, or were you unaware of it?

bush was a POS too the program was accelerated under Obama. I read several local news stories about local PDs acquiring military grade weapons and vehicles in Obammys last 2 years.

 

[xavier7995]

Eh...not wading into this pool.

 

[Gry]

So Bush is a POS and Obama gets tagged Obammy.

 

[Sunshineinabag]

Obummer had 8 fuken years to change things

 

[armedoldhippy]

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Thank Obama he gave all sorts of military surplus from the Pentagon to any local PD that wanted it, from Hummers, to fully auto machine guns, grenade launchers, armored vehicles etc..

We had the virus scaring the bejesus out of everyone telling you to stay home and flipping daily life on it's head, the virus brought with it financial devastation and record unemployment, were paying people money to sit home and riot and protest and more money to not work, now we have civil unrest and a growing racial divide, it's hard to not to think that it's not all done on purpose.

absolutely fucking wrong! Obama stopped the military from giving so much shit to LEO, then trump, in his unlimited "wisdom", started it back up. try a history book before you post next time.

 

[subrob]

Haaahaaaahaaaa....it's Obama! Hillary Hillary Hillary!

 

[xavier7995]

Worth noting that the debt ceiling fights were and are one of the primary threats to our status as the world reserve currency. I think you would be hard pressed to make the claim liberals are to blame as it was pretty widely reported on whom was involved and the reasons why.

 

[Gry]

Worth noting that the debt ceiling fights were and are one of the primary threats to our status as the world reserve currency. I think you would be hard pressed to make the claim liberals are to blame as it was pretty widely reported on whom was involved and the reasons why.

The behavior appears to be a disturbing indicator.

 

[Hank Hemp]

your problem

your problem

absolutely fucking wrong! Obama stopped the military from giving so much shit to LEO, then trump, in his unlimited "wisdom", started it back up. try a history book before you post next time.

Know what damn problem is armed, you think like me. Try a history book don't confuse him with the truth.

 

[Hank Hemp]

how?

how?

Obummer had 8 fuken years to change things

I believe the gop controlled both houses of congress and Mitch said he would make our president a one termer like trump will be come in November.

 

[hubcap]

fwiw....
LEOs have been receiving military surplus since, at least, the mid to late 60s.
And under every presidents' watch since then, it has happened.


No "side" is better than any other when it comes to this.


and no president since then has demanded it stopped OR have done anything on a large scale to stop it. none.


6 years ago my, then, local precinct was awarded an armored vehicle.
and I can remember many years before that, they received over 100 military M16s. Full auto and all. (when the local police force only had 43 members at the time)


So, lets stop the pious BS and the "my side is better than your side" crap.
You're embarrassing yourselves.


PLENTY of blame to go around for both "teams."


IF we're to be honest about it. Which we, rarely, are judging by the posts made in threads like this.




Let us remember as Americans we're all culpable and WE are the ones that need to be better humans. Politicians never were and never will be.


-cap