Sometimes the news is just so drearily awful that you have to sit back and almost appreciate the pure comedy induced by it.
Take this item from Washington, Iowa, where the local police have recently acquired an MRAP vehicle (short for Mine Resistance Ambush Protected) through a Defense Department program that donates excess vehicles originally produced for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to local police departments across the United States, including other Iowa towns such as Mason City and Storm Lake.
The MRAP weighs an impressive 49,000 pounds, stands 10-feet tall, and possesses a whopping six-wheel drive. Originally designed to resist landmines and IEDs, it sure seems like the MRAP will come in handy for the notorious war zone otherwise known as Washington County, Iowa.
If you’re having a bad day, I highly recommend watching a video produced by the Des Moines Register in which Washington police officials try to justify the possession of a vehicle it clearly has no use for. The excuses range from school shootings (which are an actual concern but an MRAP seems like overkill) to a terrorist attack happening in central Iowa (because if there’s any place that seems ripe for a high-profile terrorist attack it’s Washington, Iowa, population 7,000).
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They are building an internal army to try and control the masses
ReplyDeleteWell, they sure as hell can't say "we are getting ready to respond to the soon-to-be civil uprising". We KNOW this path we are on (printing worthless money, 17 TRILLION dollars in debt, rising - a lot faster than wages-- food and energy prices, ever-increasing poverty levels, social, political, and economic entropy, and civil discontent, etc.) can only lead to civil war or revolution. We are getting ready to SUPPRESS that problem and although YOU may think that mean letters, protests, and picket lines will solve things, WE know that there is really only one tried and true method --- extreme and ruthless violence.
ReplyDeleteYou guys write those letters. We'll keep buying MRAP"s. See ya soon...