Obama (who says “the problem is that he is not the emperor“) has purchased 2,700 tanks, 7,000 fully automatic rifles, and 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, for use inside the US and under his command.
DHS needs this to stop airplane hijackers armed with box cutters.
That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free state; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
This is so they can serve traffic citations for Jay Walking! 😉
Maybe this is the real reason the lines will be longer at airports. How many DHS jobs could have been “saved-and/or-created” with this money?
My second amendment rights now state that I can buy armor piercing ammo.
So join the fricking DHS and turn it into your militia.
That’s a very good ideal.
One does wonder what the DHS is all about these days
They could be preparing for the riots that will ensue when the 47 percenters learn their entitlements are about to be cut. The Greeks rioters cannot hold a molotov cocktail to the professional gang shit disturbers of LA and Detroit.
All Climate skeptics/Republican voters/gun owners and non vegetarians will be picked up by the Praetorian DHS in their new “urban terrain vehicles” and then be taken away for questioning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPGb4STRfKw&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Being a vegetarian, I feel better now.
Georgia Institute of Technology building prototypes of nextgen DHS officers for BAE Systems. They won’t have a problem targeting old people, pregnant women and children.
As you said, Steve, “what could possibly go wrong?”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21576376