Even left finds DHS ammo buy 'very troubling'

[coyotejoe]

The White House may paint worries over drones in American skies, federal  agencies buying up billions of bullets and local police forces arming themselves  with military-style equipment as just “bogeyman” issues of the radical right,  but an interview on New York City’s WABC Radio reveals even the left is starting  to grow worried.
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, a left-wing “peace and social  justice movement” known for its colorful marches and protests, told WABC host  Aaron Klein the potential for the Obama administration to abuse its growing  domestic police power is “extremely troubling.”
Klein asked Benjamin, author of “Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control,” if she was concerned that military-style drones now authorized to fly over U.S.  skies could be used against American citizens, the same question that prompted  U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to filibuster in the Senate earlier this month.
“Very much so,” Benjamin replied. “We see a militarization of the U.S. police  forces here in the United States, and it’s a very troubling tendency.”
Furthermore, Benjamin charged she was “upset” that liberal Democrats – who  might question and fight the federal government’s growing police powers under a Republican administration – “have been very quiet when this is  happening under Obama.”
Klein brought up concerns, such  as those reported by WND, that the federal Department of Homeland Security  and other non-military federal agencies have opened purchase orders for 1.5  billion or more rounds of ammunition over the last year. The ammo buy has been  only one of several indications of  a bigger, stronger and more militarized police presence in the U.S.
“Are we leading up to some sort of military-style control in America?” Klein  asked.
“I think the potential is there,” Benjamin replied, “and the fact that 10  years after 911 the U.S. is still keeping the American people in the state of  fear about terrorism and using that to take billions and billions of our tax  dollars to use to set up these kind of facilities and equip our local  law-enforcement agencies with military equipment and potentially really be  turning us into a society where Big Brother is watching us all the time, I think  is extremely troubling.”
The full interview with Benjamin can be heard below:
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[powderman]

I don't know why the libbdems would be worried, This is what they voted for. They knew what hussein was and voted for him anyway. Shame on em. POWDERMAN. 

[buck460XVR]

Hmmmmmm, left handed tin foil hats. Who woulda thought?

[DalesCarpentry]

You really have to wonder why on earth DHS and other agencies need so many bullets. Not to mention the other heavy duty hardware. I really think this could be leading to something and they are doing it in plain sight. The American people really need to be asking why and what it is for. Dale

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[kennyd]

the American people know what the basketball score is, who the local football team signed, who Tiger will hit with a golf club next, and the "gay rights" gain, the meaningless DOW change, the surprising snow in the rockies, and on.


They do not know what the banks are doing in the world, about the drug wars in Mexico, nor do they notice that the neighborhood cop is now a near clone of a stormtrooper.  They, if they even know of  them, think the armored vehicles are for the invasion of AlQuaida.


Even the hunters, only know they can still buy one box of 30-06, one shot to check sights, one for the deer, so a box will last 10 years.  And the news sources don't even cover anything more serious than the early start of fires.  If you mention any this, they think you are making it up, or have a 10 year future purchase confused with present day.

[powderman]

I still see no reason to have DHS. They seem to be another useless fed agency that is is wasting tax $s and getting way too big and powerful. They seem to be designed and armed to fight, or control, civilians instead of armed invaders, now thats scary.
Maybe the obummerbots can explain why hussein is spending big bucks arming them to the teeth. I see no purpose for them other than going against civilian Americans. POWDERMAN. 

[vabeachman]

DHS is scum.  Just another branch of government to spy on its own people.  I was/am anti-patriot act and homeland security creation from the beginning.  I was given a lot of crap from all my buddies.  The government already had all the resources they needed to prevent 911 from happening.  The government failed.  So the government says, Give us more power and money, more control over your life.  Government is effectively scaring everyone into giving up their freedom.