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Fri Jul 11, 2014, 06:25 AM

Jul 2014

"ongoing grants to local PDs to purchase tanks, APCs, and serious assault weaponry."

Blame the Republican Party for that one they had full control of Congress in 1997 when the 1033 program was enacted by the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1997. They passed it, authorized it, and now they are using it to scare their base.

Is the program a good idea, no not really.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/militarization-local-police-america

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