Biden says he's for defunding police

[AProudLefty]

That's my point: they're spineless and hiding in their homes awaiting "Big Brother" to save their bacon. I'd like to think if that happened in Texas, the response would be citizens armed and on their porches waving to the Sheriff saying "If we see anything, we'll call ya!"

LOL! Ain't that the truth?

[Sailor]

Martial law over two bombers?

That was not martial law to speak of. And you make it sound like bombers are nothing to be worried about. They are worse than snipers.

[Irish]

The police?

They want newer equipment? What's wrong with that?

[Irish]

Liar. Stop lying

What lie?

[Doc Dutch]

WTF is wrong with you? you have 2 BOMBERS ON THE LOOSE,
and you fault people for shuttering in place??

You are free to be a gutless coward and hide while Big Government takes care of you....you know, like China does. I think people, especially Americans, should be made of sterner stuff and have a healthier regard for individualism. I'm guessing you are against open carry too, eh, tóngzhì?

[AProudLefty]

They want newer equipment? What's wrong with that?

Because the unnecessary military equipment is a waste of money?

[Irish]

That's my point: they're spineless and hiding in their homes awaiting "Big Brother" to save their bacon. I'd like to think if that happened in Texas, the response would be citizens armed and on their porches waving to the Sheriff saying "If we see anything, we'll call ya!"

So you want vigilante justice? 2 guys tried that in Georgia and people went ape shit.

[AProudLefty]

That was not martial law to speak of. And you make it sound like bombers are nothing to be worried about. They are worse than snipers.

I am not saying they are nothing to be worried about. It's about the government overreach.

[Doc Dutch]

They can be intimidating. They are supposed to be. More importantly that are protective. They are supposed to be. It is not like LEO around the country do not need them, particularly now.

They're supposed to intimidate criminals, not the citizens.

[AProudLefty]

So you want vigilante justice? 2 guys tried that in Georgia and people went ape shit.

LOL. That isn't what he is saying at all.

[Irish]

Because the unnecessary military equipment is a waste of money?

Its not a waste if the mil is giving it to them for free.

[Althea]

What lie?

Your thread title. We had a great little problem after Bush destroyed the Mid East. We had surplus military equipment. So we brought it home, and deployed it in black neighborhoods across the nation. And we hired the roided out veterans to boot.

Now we have martial law across the nation, and it's time to scale it way back.

[AProudLefty]

Its not a waste if the mil is giving it to them for free.

Then what is the problem?

[Doc Dutch]

I am not saying they are nothing to be worried about. It's about the government overreach.

Agreed. Too much power given away by citizens to big government. Isn't that supposed to be an anathema to Republicans?

Ron Paul thought so: https://www.politico.com/story/2013/...omments-090737
Former Rep. Ron Paul said the police response to the Boston Marathon bombings was scarier than the bombing itself, which killed three and wounded more than 250.

“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city,” Paul, a Texas Republican, wrote today on the website of the libertarian writer Lew Rockwell. “This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.”

Paul said the scenes of the house-to-house search for the younger bombing suspect in suburban Watertown, Mass., were reminiscent of a “military coup in a far off banana republic.”

“Forced lockdown of a city,” he wrote. “Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down.”...

[Sailor]

They're supposed to intimidate criminals, not the citizens.

They were trying ( and succeeded) in keeping the citizens off the street for 1) Safety 2) To not hamper search operations to find them.
They were successful.