The U.S. government has put full time military on our streets, we have not recognized it for what it is.

The U.S. government has been working on completely militarizing our Police over the last few years.  It started with Bush and now Obama has taken it to a whole new level.  (Yeah the change we can believe in)

I have written about the DHS vehicles previously and was one of the first places on the internet to show the DHS armored vehicles.   Here is my initial report and pictures I took of a DHS vehicle.  It is labeled #1.   I got the pictures in July 2012 while I was in Kentucky.    When I wrote the article and released the pictures, I was accused of photoshopping the pictures from some, since a few did not believe DHS was building armored vehicles at the time.  Well, now everyone knows about the vehicles and how police stations are getting them around the country as MSM has even carried the information on how 'great it is' from their point of view.  The U.S. government is giving them away for 'free' to the police.

People simply have to look around to see that our police are completely militarized.  Look at the BLM agents that were in Nevada.  If you didn't know where and what they were doing and you just saw the pictures, you would have thought they were military personnel over in Iraq or somewhere.

The above image came from this site about the Bundy BLM standoff. 

Gallatin Tennessee is a small town North East of Nashville.  It is a town of 31000 people.  Here is the city data. 

Gallatin Tennessee got a Maxxpro Armored vehicle (info about Maxxpro vehicles).  Not just the DHS vehicle style but the even more serious Marine style armored vehicle!  

This MSM station has an article about Gallatin getting the vehicle.  What is disturbing in the article is the fact that 60 police stations throughout Tennessee has requested and applied for one.  

Portion:

Tennessee is one of the first states to get MRAPs from the Department of Defense.  The state'sLaw Enforcement Support Office, which controls who gets what, says more than 60 departments have applied to get one.
So far only Gallatin, Hendersonville, Mufreesboro and Lewisburg have the vehicle.  Those came from Fort Campbell, which drastically cut its transportation costs.

Here are pictures of the vehicle now.  It has obviously been painted since the news article about it last August.   A friend of mine sent them to me. 

Gallatin Tennessee Police Maxxpro Armored Vehicle

Gallatin Tennessee Police Maxxpro Armored Vehicle

Here is one of my questions and thoughts.  It is said that the BLM officers were also hired Blackwater mercenaries in Nevada.  With the militarized armored vehicles being placed all around the country at police stations will mercenaries be part of any policing if another situation as the BLM standoff happens elsewhere? Are mercenaries part of the plans.  They have no oath to the constitution at all, their only oath is to their handlers, masters and money for doing whatever they are told to do. Will mercenaries be behind the MRAPs instead of police?

The Daily Iowan had this article about the MRAP that a small Iowan town of 7000 got.  It says the police have been militarized and has no business getting these vehicles.  Great Article with real concerns but it has a funny part too.  I highly advice reading the whole article, it is very good.
Portion of the 'funny' part:

I mean if the police were realistic, they could come up with actual reasons to use their MRAP/machine of doom. Drunken high-school house parties could be broken up by ramming the MRAP into the side of the building. Clearly, people who have been trying to curtail underage drinking have not seriously considered the serious deterrents to slamming down a few Hamms in your parents’ house caused by a soulless war machine demolishing your kitchen.

A serious paragraph of it:

The effects of cops moving from handguns to assault rifles and being equipped with tanks, bazookas, and Kevlar has been twofold. First, civil liberties have absolutely been eroded, with police-brutality rates skyrocketing in last decade according to the Justice Department. Not only that, but, with the influx of military gear into local police forces, cops begin to view themselves as soldiers whose main job is combat rather than keeping the peace. How else can you explain the rise in police shootings since 9/11?

Iowa got a total of 7 MRAP vehicles for their police.


What this all proves is, the U.S. government understands they can't put the military on the streets officially and many of the military personnel would not fire upon U.S. citizens.  But the police are very willing to shoot citizens and have proven it over and over again.  The police have murdered innocent people that were not a threat throughout the U.S. nor did they have weapons.  The police are perfect for those in power to use along with mercenaries to squash any citizens not abiding by their causes or police state rules.

The U.S. has put military on our streets full time through the police, we simply haven't fully recognized it for what it is.