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August 03-05-13 09:31 AM
DHS buying armored cars
 
http://www.businessinsider.com/homel...ts-mrap-2013-3

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The Department of Homeland Security has acquired 16 military-style, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles for use inside the U.S., according to an official spokesman. The MRAP, as it's known in the U.S. military, was fielded in 2007 to counter the threat of devastating roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The vehicle has been modified for use with the DHS Special Response Team — specially trained, fully armored agents dispatched during the most severe and high risk situations, according to WOAI.
"[The vehicle] is used in the execution of high-risk warrants — including drug trafficking, smuggling, and contraband," Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for DHS, told Business Insider. "We have 16 MRAPs nationwide."

A few billion bullets are one thing but armored vehicles? What's next, tanks and artillery?



Video for the reading challenged.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pS9a...layer_embedded

Ducimus 03-05-13 09:37 AM
I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.

yubba 03-05-13 09:40 AM
Your welcome:salute: don't forget the 50 million dollars they will give a mexican company for uniforms.

Onkel Neal 03-05-13 09:41 AM
Oh, boy, here we go again.:shifty:

nikimcbee 03-05-13 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 2020411)
Oh, boy, here we go again.:shifty:
Neal, please don't hijack August's thread with Whitesnake references!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg

nikimcbee 03-05-13 10:07 AM
When I saw "DHS", I thought it was Dept Human Services.:doh:


So now they can enter the Favelas, er I mean Detroit, safely.

Oberon 03-05-13 11:26 AM
Well, they've got to get their sofas to people somehow!

http://www.dfs.co.uk/

AVGWarhawk 03-05-13 11:34 AM
My God...16 vehicles to cover the entire country? Head for the hills. Arm yourselves. Run! Don't look back.

16 vehicles are not enough to cover Washington DC let alone the country. SWAT has special vehicles. No one says anything about that.

SWAT City of Palm Springs:

http://palmspringsca.gov/Modules/Sho...px?imageid=221

Very soon there will be Huey armed to the teeth for crowd control.

AVGWarhawk 03-05-13 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by yubba (Post 2020410)
Your welcome:salute: don't forget the 50 million dollars they will give a mexican company for uniforms.
I think they are compensated in peso. :hmmm:

August 03-05-13 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2020485)
My God...16 vehicles to cover the entire country? Head for the hills. Arm yourselves. Run! Don't look back.

16 vehicles are not enough to cover Washington DC let alone the country. SWAT has special vehicles. No one says anything about that.
If SWAT has them why does DHS also need them?

Tribesman 03-05-13 11:39 AM
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A few billion bullets are one thing but armored vehicles? What's next, tanks and artillery?
This is outrageous, why are they buying MRAPs, why can't they just have Cadillac V-150 armoured cars like the traffic cops.:rotfl2:

AVGWarhawk 03-05-13 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by August (Post 2020488)
If SWAT has them why does DHS also need them?
August, after 9/11 all agencies are now governed under DHS. Even the TSA checking frigging bags at the airport are part of the overall entity known as the DHS. All bodies under this umbrella of the DHS(including FEMA) have one task at hand. Protect the US and the people within the borders. This includes protection from nuts already within the borders just down the street cutting his lawn.

August 03-05-13 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2020498)
August, after 9/11 all agencies are now governed under DHS. Even the TSA checking frigging bags at the airport are part of the overall entity known as the DHS. All bodies under this umbrella of the DHS(including FEMA) have one task at hand. Protect the US and the people within the borders. This includes protection from nuts already within the borders just down the street cutting his lawn.
Yeah them lawn cutters need to be eradicated!

AVGWarhawk 03-05-13 11:53 AM
Armor vehicles have been around for decades. Used for any purpose necessary. Including the ones needing to be eradicated. I do not see a issue here.

August 03-05-13 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2020505)
Armor vehicles have been around for decades. Used for any purpose necessary. Including the ones needing to be eradicated. I do not see a issue here.
Drones, Police Infantry, armored vehicles, secret courts, detention without trial, warrant-less searches. Yeah you must be right, nothing to see here...

AVGWarhawk 03-05-13 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by August (Post 2020516)
Drones, Police Infantry, armored vehicles, secret courts, detention without trial, warrant-less searches. Yeah you must be right, nothing to see here...
Drones, a new tech. What is the difference between a drone and a police helicopter? One manned, the other not. What is the point of this comment? Infantry? A bunch of cops together usually is for riots. Riots have occurred for decades. Watts comes to mind. Detention without trial. Do you have a particular case in mind? Warrant-less searches? Gone of for decades. You are painting a horse a different color. It is however the same horse.

August 03-05-13 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2020526)
Drones, a new tech. What is the difference between a drone and a police helicopter? One manned, the other not.

What is the point of this comment? Infantry? A bunch of cops together usually is for riots. Riots have occurred for decades. Watts comes to mind. Detention without trial. Do you have a particular case in mind? Warrant-less searches? Gone of for decades. You are painting a horse a different color. It is however the same horse.
Doesn't matter how long they have gotten away with it. I see it all as links in the same chain. Apparently you don't.

Betonov 03-05-13 12:29 PM
It's a PR stunt, like our police showed of their new water cannon and sang praises about how effective and modern we will be fighting riots....

It was used for 10 years as a mobile garden hose. Saw some action in december, used against 5 rioters.

TLAM Strike 03-05-13 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2020485)
Very soon there will be Huey armed to the teeth for crowd control.

Naw they will use modified Gazelles.

Catfish 03-05-13 02:02 PM
Don't forget the estimated 30,000 drones patroling the US, in the next years :hmmm:

They will be used everywhere of course, not only in the US, for whatever purpose ..



There's one advantage however, with all the eMail traffic and surveillance videos to check in the US alone by NSA, CIA, FBI, whatever, there will never be unemployment again :-?


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