Sipsey Street Irregulars: Once again, I would like to thank the Obama Administration for putting more and more military hardware out into the hinterland where the armed citizenry can get its hands on it when the time comes.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Once again, I would like to thank the Obama Administration for putting more and more military hardware out into the hinterland where the armed citizenry can get its hands on it when the time comes.

Interesting map: As wars wind down, small-town police inherit armored vehicles. Hundreds of counties have MRAPs — and more are on their way.

Of course there IS a downside to the militarization of the police: US police departments are increasingly militarised, finds report.

• ACLU cites soaring use of war zone equipment and tactics

• Swat teams increasingly deployed in local police raids

• Seven civilians killed and 46 injured in incidents since 2010

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: When we read or hear of a John Q. Citizen drilling a hole between the eyes of a LEO, we tend to think the guy might have a mental problem. Well, maybe not. Maybe he was a victim of a SWAT raid on the "wrong" house. And if one of his was injured or killed during such mess, why would he NOT want some revenge?; June 24, 2014 at 12:39 PM
Laird said...: Of course, there is an upside: come the revolution, a lot of the local police forces will be on our side and so we'll be as well armed as the military.; June 24, 2014 at 1:04 PM
Anonymous said...: "• Seven civilians killed and 46 injured in incidents since 2010"

I'm sorry, but that number seems a bit low. Not to quibble, Dutchman, but what was your source for that number? Seems like every week or every other week there is a report of some innocent killed or seriously injured by SWAT cops. I cannot believe that only (and don't get me wrong, ONE would be too many) seven people have been killed by rampaging protectors/servants.; June 24, 2014 at 1:48 PM
Dakota said...: I have little faith that there will be local cops on our side. At least in the beginning they will do what they are told. They "might" feel some guilt later after they see the direction it is taking. I use the term "might" loosely.

If cops continue down the path of brutality, and throwing grenades in child cribs and laughing about it ...... things can get messy.; June 24, 2014 at 3:21 PM
Anonymous said...: Good luck finding spare parts when those dumb things break down.

You know what else?

If it comes down to it, the mechanic who works on the local cop shop's MRAP better not ever leave the safety of the armoured garage, as he will be target numero uno.

Soft targets, people.; June 24, 2014 at 4:01 PM
Anonymous said...: Two podunk PD's within 60 miles of here have gotten MRAPs. They are already finding out the upkeep and cost of maintenance is sky high on these "free" tanks. Most of them will be laid up behind the county garages when TSHTF. Warsaw ghetto fighters destroyed Panzer IV tanks with molotovs, tanks can be easily disabled.; June 24, 2014 at 6:25 PM
Anonymous said...: Chairman Mao started with farmers w/o any real firearms .. they got their modern arms from government owned supplies ... used these to defeat the largest army in the world.; June 25, 2014 at 1:01 AM
Anonymous said...: When I was growing up, we had a decommissioned tank as a WW2 memorial in the center of town. The tank is now gone (removed in the 70's), maybe this hardware will end up being used for Mideast Wars memorials?; June 25, 2014 at 8:21 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Once again, I would like to thank the Obama Administration for putting more and more military hardware out into the hinterland where the armed citizenry can get its hands on it when the time comes.

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