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Two Years of Data On What Military Equipment the Pentagon Gave To Local Police
v3rgEz writes: Wondering how the St. Louis County Police ended up armed with surplus military gear, and what equipment other departments have? A FOIA request at MuckRock has turned up every item given to local law enforcement under the Pentagon's 1022 program, the mechanism by which local law enforcement can apply for surplus or used military gear.
unlike the military you don't have some Senator from a state with a lot of green bean farms and canning plants telling you that you must purchase pallets of green beans regardless of whether you want or need them.
No. We just have the government telling us we have to buy poorly-run insurance. If you're a guy you've got society telling you that you have to buy crystalline carbon at outrageously inflated prices for your fiance. The woman has to buy all kinds of "beauty" stuff to compete with the other women, despite the fact that guys have been telling them for years that they don't like all that goop on a face. They even did a study on that one that confirms it, but I doubt it'll change anything.
I think if you took "shit people don't really want to buy or have been brainwashed into buying" as a percentage of GDP, it'd be pretty big.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
US Defense budgets and military personnel strength are in steep decline and will be for years to come due to sequestration and other cuts.
The US was attacked on 9/11 because of existing religious extremism and anti-Americanism, not the other way around, the US didn't cause it.
It is baffling how you could get such simple questions so wrong. Substituting slogans for facts and thinking?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Thats a bullshit argument! Even the nazis armed the German population, shortly after coming to power - contrary to what NRA idiots keep repeating! Armed citizens are the backbone of every totalitarian state because the most violent ones will be the first to shoot with the states blessing!
Delta-Mike November Bravo Tango