Discussion for article #226485
Pork to weapons manufacturers.
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Militarized Keynesianism according to Krugman.
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What do people think the end result of the NRA supported gun fetish is going to be? No one expected that law enforcement would gear up in response?
We live in a gun culture now.
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Yeah, Sheriffs in Cook County now can buy and use their OWN automatic weapons on the job. They are all buying AR-15s.
Well, well, my new county has more shit than my old one…a mine resistant vehicle, assault rifles and body armor. Lord save us.
Must have been last summer, 10 o’clock in the evening or later, I heard a very loud swishing rotor noise over the house followed, seconds later by two other, smaller-sounding rotor swishing noises…Needless to say, I freaked out and ran to the deck. We’re on a slope looking south into a valley, not much light pollution and stars were out in full. Suddenly, wham, the noise again as the rotors came over the hilltop up behind the house and into my line of sight as the blinking, running lights of a large black chopper chased by two, smaller black choppers flying over the house and out into the valley before disappearing over the south eastern range of hills. This happened five or six times in a wide changing pattern of rapid flight over my valley and at least two neighboring ones. As it was going on I called local police dispatch, they were unaware of anything official. Nothing on the news but the next morning a deputy called, in a much appreciated return call, to say I witnessed Reserve training…I’m now happy I didn’t witness Reserve/local police tank training.
Utterly disgraceful.
So St. Louis County, Missouri, police bought all that gear for themselves. The taxpayer-citizens of Ferguson are getting screwed two ways!