Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia wants to spend about $7 million in federal stimulus money to lease and staff a helicopter, buy a covert surveillance van and add machine guns to boats that patrol the Houston Ship Channel. [More]Let's see, it's Homeland Security lucre, so it can't be foreign pirates. Maybe there's a rightwing extremist threat? Because as we all know, these weapons of war are designed solely to kill as many human beings as possible and belong on the battlefield, not on our streets.
Oh, sorry, I was mistakenly referring to your and my semiautos, not to "Only One"-assigned "patrol rifles."
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UPDATE: Whose Paranoid tells us about another toy that can be deployed against...what did the guy in shades call us?
Civilians.
I know the definition has been allowed to change through common usage over time to include pea...uh...law enforcement officers. I wonder who thought that was a good idea?
If they spent that money running illegals out of town, instead of running a "sanctuary city", it would go a lot further towards making the city secure from "threats". But, they'd rather control us, the producers, instead of any of the leeches.
ReplyDeleteHey, that wasn't about making the city safer. That was about keeping them safer while they control you.
ReplyDeleteGoogle groups from ~1995.
ReplyDeletesubject: "tanks in cityscapes, can you say targets?"
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