Why do America's police need an armored tank?

Quote from Crispy:

I remember blue pants, blue short, nice looking crisp sharp cover, and a sedan marked "police" With "to serve and protect" under it.

Now every podunk cop wears black fatigues and a black SWAT style baseball cap with ripstop pants and cargo pockets. Black vests and tasors. And drive a un marked cars with black tinted wondows.

Do cops realize that the militarization of them make them further targets for criminals. But more importantly the law abiding citizen?

The military industrial complex and the largest inmate population in the entire world is not a coincidence. Make no mistake about it. They want more power and they mean it.

If you cannot control the law abiding citizen, its very simple. You create laws that make them criminals. Then you can stomp down harder. Not just felony type laws. But business, tax and other non-violent type crimes...such as - you must buy health insurance from a private provider or its a criminal offense punishable by fine or paycheck levy. A decade ago I would have told you that could never happen. The US govt will never force a person to buy something they dont need.

Yet here we are. If they can ultimately force a citizen to buy health insurance what else can they slip thru?

We are on the cusp of a widening social gap, a huge rift between public and private citizens. The public citizens being the new haves and the private ones the have nots.

The kind of schism that these tanks were designed to thwart...
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Good post!
 
Quote from Rearden Metal:

Not even eggs & dairy, really??? What's the primary reason for you doing this, your health or something else?
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I tried to go vegan once. It was the worst half day for me ever! Lol!

For me: eggs, chicken, fish, venison, shrimp, some cheeses, etc., are examples of what I'll consume. As for red meat, about the only red meat I'll consume is venison, and buffalo. Not much pork either. My Wife and I were driving on the Interstate, and we passed a tractor trailer carrying baby pigs. It was winter, and looking through those holes in the truck's trailer, the pigs were shivvering. My Wife cried all the way home...:(
 
Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

The Constitution does not allow or envision any such role for the military. There is no provision for the suspension of the Constitution or imposition of martial law, temporary or otherwise.
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The Constitution doesn't envision handing taxpayer money to private banks and car companies to circumvent bankruptcy and allow senior executives to maintain their compensation and pension packages; or "extraordinary rendition" and imprisonment for years without criminal charges; or "regime change" and decade-long "military actions" in foreign territories without a declaration of war by the Congress; or assignment of monetary power and regulation to an unaccountable central bank; or forcing people of all States to purchase insurance from private corporations; and so on and so on..... Constitutionality doesn't even register as a mild inconvenience for those making policy today.
 
Variety of reasons.

Not going to divulge that specific info though. Nothing personal to you, but not something I opt to share on a message board filled with crazy folks...not saying you are crazy though. Just saying I am vegan will let the crazy folks imagination run wild, which is what they will do...
then I will read what their imaginations are, and just laugh at what fools they actually are.


Quote from Rearden Metal:

Not even eggs & dairy, really??? What's the primary reason for you doing this, your health or something else?
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Quote from Madison:

The Constitution doesn't envision handing taxpayer money to private banks and car companies to circumvent bankruptcy and allow senior executives to maintain their compensation and pension packages; or "extraordinary rendition" and imprisonment for years without criminal charges; or "regime change" and decade-long "military actions" in foreign territories without a declaration of war by the Congress; or assignment of monetary power and regulation to an unaccountable central bank; or forcing people of all States to purchase insurance from private corporations; and so on and so on..... Constitutionality doesn't even register as a mild inconvenience for those making policy today.
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Slam dunk, 100% right on the money.
 
Quote from Madison:

The Constitution doesn't envision handing taxpayer money to private banks and car companies to circumvent bankruptcy and allow senior executives to maintain their compensation and pension packages; or "extraordinary rendition" and imprisonment for years without criminal charges; or "regime change" and decade-long "military actions" in foreign territories without a declaration of war by the Congress; or assignment of monetary power and regulation to an unaccountable central bank; or forcing people of all States to purchase insurance from private corporations; and so on and so on..... Constitutionality doesn't even register as a mild inconvenience for those making policy today.
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I also agree!
 
Quote from OPTIONAL777:

Variety of reasons.

Not going to divulge that specific info though. Nothing personal to you, but not something I opt to share on a message board filled with crazy folks...not saying you are crazy though. Just saying I am vegan will let the crazy folks imagination run wild, which is what they will do...
then I will read what their imaginations are, and just laugh at what fools they actually are.
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My imagination doesn't run wild on the vegan topic. A good Friend of mine in San Diego eats NO dairy, meat, eggs, etc., His LDL is 59 (that's the bad cholesterol), and his HDL (the good) is 55 the last time we spoke.
 
Quote from OPTIONAL777:

Just saying I am vegan will let the crazy folks imagination run wild, which is what they will do...
then I will read what their imaginations are, and just laugh at what fools they actually are.
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Yup,

Vegans are superior beings.
 
Quote from Rearden Metal:

Not even eggs & dairy, really??? What's the primary reason for you doing this, your health or something else?
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Most Hindoos are vegetarians or vegan
 
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