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Outdoor Channel, America's leader in outdoor TV, today announced production is in full swing for the new original Outdoor Channel series, "Elite Tactical Unit: S.W.A.T." Scheduled to premiere in January 2013, this one-hour adrenaline-fueled reality show will take viewers on realistic missions through explosive danger led by officers that serve in this line of duty day in and day out.
active-duty U.S. S.W.A.T. officers who are vying for $10,000 for themselves along with cash and prizes valued at more than $100,000 for the S.W.A.T. departments they serve back home.
That's right. Winner gets more money to buy more equipment that they'll have to use to justify their own existence.
Originally posted by MDDoxs
Hunger games next stop?
I am always amazed at how desensatized to violence I am. I see death in the news and on television so much that I would be surprized even I would experience any kind of shock if i was to see real tragedy in person.
Could this be to prepare the masses to see huge home land security tanks roling down the streets with officers in full tactical gear as the norm??
Originally posted by Juggernog
reply to post by thisguyrighthere
That's right. Winner gets more money to buy more equipment that they'll have to use to justify their own existence.
They dont need the money. The Feds have been funding local police departments for years now but it comes with strings attached.
They have to do things they way the Feds want them done and one of those things was to become more militarized and more oppressive.
Originally posted by spoonbender
not to derail
but Hunger game
was Running Man meets Lord of the Fly's
I used to watch COPS when it first came on in the early 90's.
Back then it was a bunch of good ol' boy type cops and a lot of laughs and letting people go. Even people caught with drugs.