Support Your Local Army!
December 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM Leave a comment
I’m thinking that a time is rapidly approaching when use of the terms “police department” and “peace officer” will become obsolete, replaced instead by something like “army” and “soldier.” Here’s why:
The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will.
We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up and it turns out a lot of these weapons are going straight to American police forces to be used against US citizens.
Benjamin Carlson at The Daily reports on a little known endeavor called the “1033 Program” that gave more than $500 million of military gear to U.S. police forces in 2011 alone.
1033 was passed by Congress in 1997 to help law-enforcement fight terrorism and drugs, but despite a 40-year low in violent crime, police are snapping up hardware like never before. While this year’s staggering take topped the charts, next year’s orders are up 400 percent over the same period.
And just think, this is all being paid for by you and me. We shell out the money, the defense contractors get rich, and then the stuff they sell to the government is used against us.
It’s the military industrial complex gone berserk.
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