my tin foil hat
i don't know why i google these things...
remember that little brouhaha over whether it was the noaa fisheries people or the weather service who had ordered those 46,000 hollow point bullets, i.e. bullets that are used never for target practice, and always for taking down human beings, not uncoincidentally in conflict with the geneva convention? (that's right, the us army can't use 'em). well, those 46,000 hollow point rounds for game wardens and weather stationeers is just the tip of that iceberg. the social security administration ordered 176,000 hollow point rounds. the us department of agriculture ordered 326,000 rounds. the department of homeland security ordered 450 MILLION rounds. (for scale, consider that the us army expends about 5.5 million rounds during an average month in iraq and afghanistan, meaning that DHS is now armed for 7 years of actual war).
back in the old days, they called it "REX 84", and it was a government blueprint for martial law. these days it goes by the NSDP51 (national security defense protocol) and HSDP20 (homeland security defense protocol) monickers, and it includes over three thousand detention / "civilian labor" camps to receive all those so designated by the government without due process according to the powers granted under the patriot act.
yup, our government is armed for 7 years of fighting against its own citizens, using ammunition not allowable in international conflict by the rules of the geneva convention, including forced detention and labor camps (nowhere in my reading of the government sites did i see the word "concentration", but i couldn't help but be reading it nonetheless) and targeted assassination.
but, of course, you will say that i'm crazy. our government would never do that.
so why do they need all that ammo???
remember that little brouhaha over whether it was the noaa fisheries people or the weather service who had ordered those 46,000 hollow point bullets, i.e. bullets that are used never for target practice, and always for taking down human beings, not uncoincidentally in conflict with the geneva convention? (that's right, the us army can't use 'em). well, those 46,000 hollow point rounds for game wardens and weather stationeers is just the tip of that iceberg. the social security administration ordered 176,000 hollow point rounds. the us department of agriculture ordered 326,000 rounds. the department of homeland security ordered 450 MILLION rounds. (for scale, consider that the us army expends about 5.5 million rounds during an average month in iraq and afghanistan, meaning that DHS is now armed for 7 years of actual war).
back in the old days, they called it "REX 84", and it was a government blueprint for martial law. these days it goes by the NSDP51 (national security defense protocol) and HSDP20 (homeland security defense protocol) monickers, and it includes over three thousand detention / "civilian labor" camps to receive all those so designated by the government without due process according to the powers granted under the patriot act.
yup, our government is armed for 7 years of fighting against its own citizens, using ammunition not allowable in international conflict by the rules of the geneva convention, including forced detention and labor camps (nowhere in my reading of the government sites did i see the word "concentration", but i couldn't help but be reading it nonetheless) and targeted assassination.
but, of course, you will say that i'm crazy. our government would never do that.
so why do they need all that ammo???
posted by kad barma at 9:42 AM
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and to all the obamapologists tempted to reason that it's just precautionary and responsible government behavior, i would ask that you, just for a moment, imagine that dubya and cheney were your pres and veep, or just for grins, perhaps romney and ryan. want those guys in charge of all that firepower? make you feel any differently? sure, it makes you all the more compelled to work to get YOUR guy elected, but, geez, just for a moment can we all agree that our government should NOT be armed like that against its own citizenry???
As for the government, there are more of us than there are of them. And there is the little realized caveat amongst the tin foil/tricorn hat crowd, the government is US.
As a soldier, back in the day, I guess I may have been willing to kill some US citizens, if we were looking at an isolated uprising/martial law sorta scenario. But, it is doubtful that I, so I project to today's soldiers, would get into a prolonged 'war' with other Americans.
It would have to be stark. I don't see soldiers spending years fighting an insurgency. Besides, we don't let things get that far along. We use "law enforcemet" to nip these things in the bud.
Better to win in the ballot booth.
So can we the people return the ammo and get our money back? They're about a buck a round last time I checked. Even at a massive quantity discount, we're still talking hundreds of thousands of dollars for stuff that's got no likely purpose.
oops--that's hundreds of MILLIONS... sorry, as the government can attest, it's hard to keep track when the numbers get that big.
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