It Disturbs Me

That local police agencies are getting $5 billion dollars’ worth of MILITARY gear. Even small communities like Greenwood, Indiana are getting what amounts to armored cars and automatic weapons. I’m sure they’re getting bulletproof vests, too. The guns and bulletproof vests don’t worry me because the criminals are getting the same equipment to use against the cops (Albeit not from the feds). They steal them or buy them illegally. Example: the bank robbery a few years ago in LA where the cops had to go to a local gun store to obtain automatic weapons to use against the automatic weapon-armed bank robbers.

What DOES disturb me is the rest of the gear and training the feds are providing (sometimes for FREE). It effectively makes police agencies the EQUIVALENT of the military. Posse Comitatus prevents the use of the military from acting as police officers, and for good reason. It does NOT stop police from acting as the military, and that is one way the feds are “getting around” “Posse Comitatus.” Why are they doing it? Do they EXPECT a revolution? And is this a way of PREPARING for one? There’s a good reason for Posse Comitatus, and arming and training the police agencies as military violates the SPIRIT, if not the actual law. Criminals are not the only people who violate the law. (Guns SaveLife)