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THIS COUNTRY HAS GONE TOTALLY COMPLETELY FUCKING NUTS!

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« on: September 16, 2014, 01:42:10 pm »

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Meet the newest vehicle in the arsenal of the San Diego Unified School District, a Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, more commonly known as an MRAP, or the US military's answer to the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) so favored by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now, you might be asking, are the officers of the San Diego Unified School District Police (sidebar: is it normal nowadays for school districts to have police departments?) regularly subject to ambushes and/or IEDs? It seems unlikely.

Instead, the district says the vehicle will be used for search and rescue, according to KPBS, the local public broadcaster.

"Our idea is: How can we get in and pull out a classroom at a time of kids if there's an active shooter? If there's a fire [or] if there's an earthquake, can we rip down a wall? Stuff like that," Captain Joe Florentino told KBPS

The MRAP, which is valued at $730,000, was acquired for a mere pittance – $5,000 in shipping fees – through the controversial Excess Property Program, or 1033 program. That's the same Department of Defense setup that has drawn fire following the Ferguson, MO protests.
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« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2014, 02:36:59 pm »

The more military equipment we keep giving the police, and in this instance...a school district???...the more we (the average citizen) will become the enemy, or suspect.  It's psych 101.
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« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2014, 05:13:11 pm »

agree. Give police these kinds of toys, they will use them .... against us.

Police dept got by JUST FINE without them before, right? Sad.
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« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2014, 09:18:43 pm »

it's the way we've been going for years tho... everyone wants that faux-feeling of saftey and everyone is just so positive that these things will never be used against them, used against those others sure.. but never them..

but as Chuck pointed out.. the scariest part of that entire story isnt the MRAP its that the freaking thing is for the San Diego Unified School District Police

wtf? 
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« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2014, 09:41:29 pm »

When I posted this on FB my brother the Whig, yes really, said something about were overreacting. Then my other brother the teabagger said something about his town - in Georgia - buying one to fight the terror threat in Maine?

WTF?Huh?

This is all I could find.

http://www.newmainetimes.org/articles/2013/12/09/smart-money-tin-soldiers-and-nixon-coming/
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« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2014, 09:47:02 pm »

Correction. That was my nephew the libertarian who actually lives in Maine.
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« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2014, 10:21:59 pm »

they should take all the crap and then sell it off for the value of the scrap metal in them.
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