Sipsey Street Irregulars: No more Bradleys and bayonets for you, Mr. Police Chief.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

No more Bradleys and bayonets for you, Mr. Police Chief.

List of Obama's new embargo on military equipment to the cops.

I have long been on record as approving of the transfer of military hardware out into the hinterland where the armed citizenry can get its hands on it when it needs to. It could well be that the Obama administration, faced with the latest example in a long line of Iraqi Shia cowardice arming ISIS, started worrying about that very thing here at home.

The units that had been attempting to retake Ramadi, which was attacked late Thursday evening and had fallen mostly into militant hands by Saturday, were in the process of fleeing the city and had abandoned dozens of U.S.-supplied armored vehicles, as well as artillery, heavy machine guns and other military gear as they fled mostly on foot from the fighting.

(MBV NOTE: On another pet peeve of mine -- We gave this stuff to the Iraqi "central 'government'" which promptly surrenders it to ISIS, but we refuse to arm the Kurds who are the only effective fighting force in the region.)

6 comments:

Uncle Elmo said...: "The Pentagon will no longer give police... .50-caliber or higher ammunition and firearms..."

Better we save them for the Mexican Cartels in the ATF's next 'botched sting operation'.; May 19, 2015 at 8:30 AM
Lisa said...: Good morning, Michael.

This may be the only thing Obama has done on which I actually agree. In fact, I'd like to see a complete stop to providing military equipment to so-called law enforcement.

Militarization of the police has not been a good thing in my view and the increased force capability the militarization of police has had on domestic conflict as been anything but deescalating. The rioting that we're seeing today isn't totally unlike the civil rights riots and Vietnam War protests of the late 1960's and early 1970's. (Yes, I'm that old.) It is not necessary to militarize the police to meet these riots. During the 1960's and '70's the National Guard was deployed on the most extreme riotous circumstances. Do you remember Kent State?

Perhaps, some people are okay with murdering those who disagree with them, that is not a cause I'd be able to support. I guess that's why I'm anti-government now. I don't support a government who wants to murder the citizenry because a segment of the citizenry won't go along with the dissolution of our God-given rights.

Oh well...

Much love,

Lisa; May 19, 2015 at 9:25 AM
Anonymous said...: Yup.

It's all accidental like....

Bad things just keep happening with this regime. The bad guys never had better friends and our allies never had worse.; May 19, 2015 at 10:12 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm sure the ATF, DHS, DEA, etc can put the bayonet's to better use.; May 19, 2015 at 10:50 AM
Anonymous said...: We must stop arming Muslims. Period.

It's all just a scam - any arming of any of them IS arming our enemy. Islam is the enemy of freedom and liberty. It needs to be destroyed - not armed! Nukes to knives- even to wealth from oil to diamonds and dollar bills... We should take a war footing against them all. They are ALL at war against our ideals, our inherent inalienable rights -because their book instructs them that our claims about endowed self evident liberty are illegitimate (as they are not sharia based).

I cannot for the life of me figure out why folks, to this day, DENY this stark reality. Arming the "good" Muslims now will only serve to face those same armaments in the future.

We must stop ignoring this historically demonstrated FACT!; May 19, 2015 at 6:53 PM
Allen said...: this could also mean they've got all they are expected to need, and the "no more" is all for show.; May 19, 2015 at 9:45 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

No more Bradleys and bayonets for you, Mr. Police Chief.

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