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Originally posted by Surfrat
Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile
www.thegatewaypundit.com...
This is getting a little creepy
What I don't get is, why does Homeland need 2700 of them, when it's already clear it won't do a thing to patrol the borders? Why do they need a couple of wars' worth of bullets, tanks and drones?
Originally posted by inverslyproportional
I see this as nothing but intimidation, as many already know the weaknesses, and could defeat it if itnbecame necessary.
Just another wasted cargo ship full of money really.
Originally posted by w3thepatient
Who though is going to shoot those bullets?
Its hard to imagine the americans own security forces shooting their own people. Sure the cops dont mind bashing the odd protester or black person but will that same cop shoot bullets into civilians all day every day until the killing is done?
I doubt it will happen that way but hypothetically, how do you get your army to turn on your people?
Mind control, propaganda, payrise? I just dont see it coming off.
Perhaps the only way to do it is to pay some other national army or NATO to do it. Part of the deal is that TPTB supply the weapons and ammo which is handily stored around the country in key locations.
Or perhaps TPTB could polarise the main stream to come after all you guys that want armed resistance. You just need to give them a reason to kill you.
I cant help feeling that armed resistance is futile and really not that courageous. Looking straight down the barrel of a tank and putting flowers in there is truly courageous.
(ever thought, armed revolution advocates are sock puppets inciting us to armed resistance and playing into the hands of the bullet buyers?)
edit on 6-3-2013 by w3thepatient because: further speculation
Originally posted by butcherguy
reply to post by w3thepatient
Before the Nazis started gassing the Jews, they shot a lot of them. They lined them up at the edge of a ditch and shot them, often one at a time, with a single 9mm bullet to the head at point blank range. When the ditch was nearly full, they covered it with dirt and started over again.
Pol Pot would not waste bullets in the killing fields of Cambodia. Most of the millions killed there were bludgeoned to death with clubs.
Hmmm. Who would do the shooting? Same as always, your countrymen.... to avoid the same fate.
reply to post by Chance321
I know this has brought up a few times in different places here, but look to obamas dream of wanting a civilian security force just as well funded and equipped as the military. Those people'll be the ones that will do his bidding, not the police or military,( at least I hope not), but his own police force.
Originally posted by w3thepatient
Who though is going to shoot those bullets?
Its hard to imagine the americans own security forces shooting their own people. Sure the cops dont mind bashing the odd protester or black person but will that same cop shoot bullets into civilians all day every day until the killing is done?