Ohio State University Now Has an Armored Fighting Vehicle
As the reader who forwarded this to me commented:
Of real interest is Paul Vance's statement: "The idea that the police are not entitled to an exception to the rule of law and have to abide by the same rules as everyone else is purely anarchistic." Think this guy has it backwards....
Indeed.
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Just closer to public hands..
Sure they don't see it that way,, but some of us do
Since Unca Sugar is giving these things to everyone, I think I need one of those MRAPs myself. Well, I need it just as bad as a college police force. Or maybe I need it as badly as a college needs it's own police force. Well, whatever. I need one.
Since the NSA is reading this, the message has surely been received, and no doubt they know where to deliver it. Oh, forest pattern camo if possible. Thanks!
This should make the next home game against Michigan really interesting.
”The idea that the police are not entitled to an exception to the rule of law and have to abide by the same rules as everyone else is purely anarchistic.”
Paul Vance is nothing but another tin-plated wannabe tyrant.
He says it's "anarchistic", but does he really mean "anachronistic", i.e., a person, item, or idea that belongs in an era long past? Because, for the life of me, I don't see how expecting police to live under the law like the rest of us (so-called) "civilians" promotes anarchy. As our police forces become more and more militarized, I can certainly see why he would think that the notion of "the law applies to everyone" has no place in the modern world. Cops have all those fancy toys, vehicles and gadgets, so why should he be prohibited from using them as he sees fit with with no responsibility or accountability?
I'll tell y'all what's anachronistic though.....the idea going back to the dark ages/medieval ages that a Noble Lord has absolute life and death authority over the peasants that work his lands.....or the idea of slavery.....because his implication that police should be above the law sets a very dangerous precedent and takes our (already crumbling) society down a path from which there is no return.....not without a lot of bloodshed anyway...
AJ, if colleges and public school districts didn't have their own police, how would they prevent thefts, assaults, and rapes from being officially reported as thefts, assaults, and rapes?
Take for example the school cop who confiscated burglary tools and stolen jewelry from Trayvon Martin before writing him up for graffiti. I'm sure it was standard policy for Miami-Dade School Police Department to overlook things that might cast their schools in a bad light.
You make a fine point, FedUp. Nevertheless, I hope that SantaNSA brings me a MRAP for Xmas this year. ;-)
N'after that Ohio State Cop MRAP blows through your front door, and the stack that comes out of it, brutalizes your family while trashing your home, I'm sure that guy with the tuba will come out, and start playing as they frog march you out to the waiting Black Marias.
"AJ, if colleges and public school districts didn't have their own police, how would they prevent thefts, assaults, and rapes from being officially reported as thefts, assaults, and rapes?
Take for example the school cop who confiscated burglary tools and stolen jewelry from Trayvon Martin before writing him up for graffiti. I'm sure it was standard policy for Miami-Dade School Police Department to overlook things that might cast their schools in a bad light."
DING! DING! DING! DING! DING!
Pay the man!!!!!
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