The American government thinks that we are stupid country bumpkins who are only interested in our "guns and bibles" as they go about assembling an arsenal of guns and ammo along with vehicles that are made for war. My friends, this is very scary.
Only when a government is afraid of its citizens does it arm itself to resist the efforts of the populace to protect their rights. We have seen this in Egypt, Libya, Syria and now here in the good ole' USA.
It would not be irresponsible to assert that there is something wrong here in America. There are too many warning signals that cannot be dismissed. We have a department of government on a buying spree without regard to current economic doldrums and no one calls them on it. It makes one ask a simple question. "What in the heck is going on?
Yesterday, our chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Holder, had to be badgered by Senators to admit that an American sitting in a cafe drinking coffee does not present a clear and present danger and therefore should not be killed in a drone attack. He had to be asked four or five times to make that admission. Most Americans would think it was a no-brainer. Why would he hesitate?
As a reminder, this is the same Attorney General who found nothing wrong with the Fast and Furious Operation which forced law abiding gun dealers to sell illegal weapons to Mexican drug lords. One of our border guards paid with his life for the government's malfeasance.
As a reminder, this is the same Attorney General who found nothing wrong with the Fast and Furious Operation which forced law abiding gun dealers to sell illegal weapons to Mexican drug lords. One of our border guards paid with his life for the government's malfeasance.
This is an Administration that professes to be open and is one of the most secretive; who gives money to their friends without regard to the viability of their enterprises; who says they want to protect us by taking away our guns; who takes over private companies in order "to save them"; who says they support our strongest allies while cozying up to our enemies; and who has shown their lack of fiscal honesty by forcing agencies to make "things hard on the public" while doling out millions to Egypt. In addition, we see them building a domestic army out of the Department of Homeland Services. There is something wrong in River City and it is not pool!
Something is about to happen and unfortunately, it probably will occur this summer. The pieces are coming together for the Administration and all they need is the precipitating event. What might occur is all conjecture, however, it will be frightening and large (like the Reichtag Fire in Germany) which will make Americans plead for the leadership to take control. (We are always looking for Daddy to take care of our problems, right!) At that point, the strands will be pulled together to make a terrible rug. It will come clear why the government was buying the guns, ammo and armored vehicles; why they were de-sensitizing us to drone strikes; and why they were marginalizing Congress and expanding Presidential power. It will happen whether it is this summer or next, but we are very close.
Conservative Tom
DHS buys 7000 full-auto assault rifles, calls them ‘personal defense weapons’
Mike AdamsNatural News
Jan 28, 2013
Jan 28, 2013
In yet another huge blow to the rhetoric and narrative of the Obama administration and its desire to disarm the American public, a DHS bid has been uncovered (see documents below) showing that the Department of Homeland Security recently put out an offer to purchase 7,000 full-auto “assault weapons” to be used domestically, inside the USA.
Keep in mind that President Obama is on the record saying, “AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals; that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities.”
But it seems he really means they don’t belong on the streets of our cities unless they are in the hands of homeland security enforcers, in which case they can be FULL-AUTO assault weapons.
The DHS bid for 7,000 full-auto assault weapons is found by clicking here. The original credit for discovering this goes, to my best knowledge, to Awr Hawkins at Breitbart.com.
In the hands of the government, they’re called “Personal Defense Weapons”
The juiciest part of this bid is the use of the phrase “Personal Defense Weapons” to describe the full-auto AR-15s being purchased by DHS.
Apparently, when YOU hold an AR-15, it’s an “assault rifle.” But magically, if you hand that same rifle to an armed government homeland security enforcer, it instantly transforms itself into a “personal defense weapon.”
- A D V E R T I S E M E N T
The request for bid actually says:
DHS and its components have a requirement for a 5.56x45mm NATO, select-fire firearm suitable for personal defense use in close quarters and / or when maximum concealment is required.
So there it is, right in black and white: DHS enforcers need full-auto AR-15s which are “suitable for personal defense in close quarters” and for “maximum concealment.”
But if you or I make the same claim, suddenly we are branded lunatics by the fringe left and all the gun grabbers across America who apparently have no clue that their own government is arming up like never before.
Senator Feinstein, the gun-grabbing Senator from California, says she wants to take all the guns from all Americans. “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in,” she says on the record. But while Mr. and Mrs. America are turning in their guns, ‘roid-head DHS goons are arming to the teeth with full-auto assault rifles.
This is all on top of the 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition the U.S. government has already stockpiled, as was discovered last year. What kind of government wants to domestically stockpile ammo and full-auto weapons, putting them in the hands of domestic agents who have nothing whatsoever to do with overseas wars? Well, the kind of government that plans to NEED 1.6 billion rounds of ammo and full-auto assault weapons, of course.
Read some language from the contract bid: Pistol grips, full-auto and more
Here’s some selected text from the bid:
ICE/Mission Support-DC
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Office of Acquisition Management
801 I Street NW, Suite 980
Washington DC 20536
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Office of Acquisition Management
801 I Street NW, Suite 980
Washington DC 20536
Troy Teachey, troy.teachey@dhs.gov
Delivery Location Code: ICE/AS/NFTTU
ICE Natl Firearm Tactical Trng Unit
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
500 12th ST SW, Washington DC 20536
ICE Natl Firearm Tactical Trng Unit
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
500 12th ST SW, Washington DC 20536
5.56X45mm NATO Personal Defense Weapon
During the base period and four option periods of this contract the maximum ceiling is $9,800,000.
Click here for the PDF document containing the following text:
The scope of this contract is to provide a total of up to 7,000 5.56x45mm North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) personal defense weapons (PDW) throughout the life of this contract to numerous Department of Homeland Security components.
The action shall be select-fire (capable of semi-automatic and automatic fire).
The action shall be capable of accepting all standard NATO STANAG 20 and 30 round M16 magazines (NSN 1005-00-921-5004) and Magpul 30 round PMAG (NSN 1005-01-576-5159). The magazine shall have a capacity to hold thirty (30) 5.56x45mm NATO rounds.
The receiver top shall be equipped with an integral MIL-STD-1913 Picatinny rail for mounting sights and other accessories.
The fire control selector shall have three positions; safe, semi-automatic, and automatic.
The pistol grip shall be a fixed, vertical pistol grip constructed of a durable material.
DHS admits AR-15 with 30-round magazine is “suitable for personal defense use in close quarters”
This government document openly admits that AR-15s with 30-round magazines and capable of fully automatic fire are “suitable for personal defense” in close quarters (i.e. your home).
CNN, of course, doesn’t want you to ever hear that. Nor does Feinstein, Cuomo, Schumer, Obama, Eric Holder or any other gun grabbers. Even while their own government is arming up with 1.6 billion rounds of ammo and 7,000 full-auto “assault rifles” (plus lots more in other bids), they are trying to completely disarm the American citizenry through new gun registration and confiscation legislation.
The whole point of all this, of course, is to create firepower disparity between the government and the citizenry… To disarm the People while arming up the government agents who operate domestically. That way, the people can be forced at gunpoint into doing almost anything the oppressive government demands! (Taking vaccine shots, giving up private property, turning over farms and businesses, etc.)
What’s really hard-hitting about this is that the radical left keeps claiming things like “no one needs an assault rifle for personal defense.” Okay, if that true, then the Department of Homeland Security should abandon all such rifles first! Let’s see DHS turn in all its rifles and ammo, thereby setting an example of the “fact” that “nobody needs an assault rifle” for self defense.
In truth, a full-auto AR-15 is an outstanding weapon for self defense, which is exactly why DHS is buying thousands of them. Nothing stops bad guys faster than a barrage of high-velocity lead aimed in their direction. Again, that’s why DHS wants these rifles in the first place. One of these rifles in the hands of a citizen could have stopped the Sandy Hook shooting in seconds.
Pay attention to the word games (which are really mind games)
As you observe the highly manipulated gun control argument, pay special attention to the word games you’re being subjected to:
An AR-15 in the hands of a citizen is an “assault rifle.”
But an AR-15 in the hands of a DHS agent is a “Personal Defense Weapon.”
But an AR-15 in the hands of a DHS agent is a “Personal Defense Weapon.”
A full-auto-capable rifle in the hands of a citizen is called a “machine gun.”
A full-auto-capable rifle in the hands of a DHS agent is called a “select-fire rifle.”
A full-auto-capable rifle in the hands of a DHS agent is called a “select-fire rifle.”
According to the media, all government agents with assault rifles are presumed innocent and assumed to be stopping crime.
But all private citizens with assault rifles are presumed guilty and assumed to be causing crime.
When one citizen goes crazy and murders a bunch of people, the call goes out for ALL citizens to be stripped of their firearms.
But when one government agent goes crazy and murders a bunch of people, the calls goes out for MORE guns to be placed in the hands of MORE government agents!
Thank you, DHS, for admitting the truth
In summary, it looks like we actually need to thank the DHS for admitting the truth that Obama won’t: AR-15s are personal defense weapons, suitable for use in close quarters, especially when equipped with 30-round magazines.
That’s why I own one, and it’s why DHS wants thousands more (but theirs are full-auto, while mine is only semi-auto).
As a general rule, all freedom-loving Americans should want the same firepower their domestic government possesses. That’s the whole point behind the Second Amendment, and it represents the distribution of power in a free society.
But instead of firepower being equal in America today, DHS is using our taxpayer dollars to purchase thousands of full-auto weapons for their own agents. This is apparently being done under ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
This brings up the question for another entire article, and here’s the question: Why does immigration need 7,000 full-auto assault rifles? Is there a friggin’ Mexican invasion planned that nobody told me about? Is ICE going to invade Mexico and start a shooting war with the Mexican drug cartels?
Seriously: Why does ICE need 7,000 full-auto assault rifles? And why does DHS need 1.6 billion rounds of ammo?
" It will happen whether it is this summer or next, but we are very close."
ReplyDeleteWhat are you going to say when the "end of next summer" arrives and it didn't happen? Will you be like these prophets who predict the end of the world on day "X", and then just project the same prediction to some future date "Y" when the "X-date" prediction fails? Mercifully, all the Obama conspiracy theories will expire January, 2017. Until then, you can just keep pushing out the doomsday date.
--David
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid!
DeleteDavid, so if there is nothing to worry about please explain the purchase of 1.5 Billion (yes with a b) bullets, 2700 heavy armored vehicles, 7000 AR-15s by the Department of Homeland Security. What is the reason for these purchases?
Before you tell me these are for the military, that would be wrong. They are for the Department of Homeland Security.
I am waiting for a cogent answer.
Is the budget for Homeland Security separate from the military budget? I don't know, but you probably do, since you are so interested in this. If so, it is a way for the government to spend more on military crap than they could if it were all purchased through the military budget alone.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, what are you going to say when next summer ends and your prediction fails? Drink more of the same Kool-Aid?
--David
David, Of course the DOMESTIC HOMELAND SECURITY has a different appropriation from the military. Remember posse comititus!
ReplyDeleteYou did not answer my question--what are they doing buying bullets (1.5 billion), 2717 heavy armored vehicles and 7000 AR-15?
As I said, it is a way to spend more on military than is authorized by the military budget. These items are fungible -- i.e., easily passed on from Homeland Security to the military when needed, so that the military can spend more on other things. Meanwhile, Homeland will warehouse all this stuff for the military, not use it to blow up American citizens....which brings us to my question which you still have not answered: what are you going to say when next summer ends and your prediction fails? Drink more of the same Kool-Aid?
ReplyDelete--David
--David
David, you are not accurate. Homeland Security does not exchange military equipment with the military. The dollars for each department are separate and even though the Congress offerred the President the ability to move funds between departments, he turned it down. Dollars cannot be moved from one area to another.
ReplyDeleteYou keep ignoring the facts in front of your eyes--are you just arguing to be arguing or do you really ignore the issues?
You apparently did not understand what I wrote. I am not talking about transferring funds from one budget to another. The stuff is purchased by Homeland and warehoused by Homeland. If we get into another damn war in Iran or someplace, this stuff can be used to resupply the military. They are not doing it now, because it is not needed now, but it is a way for the military to stockpile all this stuff as a reserve without having to pay for its purchase or storage out of their own budget. This lets them spend more money on aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, F-35, and more such stuff we don't need.
ReplyDeleteStill waiting to hear what you will say when the end of next summer arrives and your prediction fails. Will you admit you are wrong, or will you project the prediction out another year, or two, or until January, 2017. I would really like to hear an answer to that.
--David
The trouble with your question is that it assumes that nothing will happen. You will not be able to admit you were wrong when the time comes as one of the first things they will do is to cut the internet or strictly limit what can be said.
ReplyDeleteIt is coming, have you taken any steps to prepare?
Now we have a second prediction. The first was that Russians will use Homeland weapons on Americans. Do I have that right?
ReplyDeleteThe new one is that the government will cut the internet or censor what can be said. Right?
Feel free to add as many more to this list as you can imagine.
My question on each them is what you will say when the government does none of these catastrophic things by the end of next summer. Are you ever going to admit you are wrong anytime before January, 2017? Simple question.
--David
"It is coming, have you taken any steps to prepare?"
ReplyDeleteI am prepared to say "I told you so" when the end of next summer arrives and your blog and all of the Obama conspiracy sites are still operating and uncensored. My question, which you STILL have not answered, is whether you will admit you were wrong by then or will you project your prediction out another year or two as all the doomsday prophets do? I am really curious about this, which is why I keep asking the question.
--David
Keep saying "I doubt it" but I will keep digging up the facts that you are never going to accept until they come to take away all of your rights. It is time to wake up.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I give up. You are not going to answer the question. But I will remind you of this discussion at the end of next summer. I just put it on my computer's calendar to tell Tom "I told you so" next September!
ReplyDeleteI accept facts. My educational background is in science. However, I just don't accept wild conspiracy theories irrationally extrapolated from them. Also, just because some unnamed source cited by a conspiracy blogger claims something, that doesn't make it a fact.
--David
OK david, the facts are 1) the department of homeland security has purchased 1.5 billion rounds of 40 caliber 2) the department of homeland security has purchased 7000 AR-15 weapons 3) the department of homeland security has purchased 2700 armored, mine resistant tanks 4) the deparment of homeland security has not said why they made the purchases.
DeleteThose are the facts and no one can explain them. So what is the explanatiion?
I gave you what I consider a very plausible explanation. You just don't accept it.
ReplyDeleteWith all these cuts coming to the defense budget, why doesn't it make sense that the military would work a deal with Homeland to have Homeland buy this military stuff out of the Homeland budget to be held in reserve for the military so that the military doesn't have to use its own budget to purchase and warehouse all these things? It is a backdoor way to sustain military spending in the face of the sequester, etc. Of course, I wouldn't expect Homeland to admit that this is the purpose of this shell game.
The answer is to cut the budget of Homeland, but I guess you won't agree to that. We are spending WAY too much on military, regardless all the places they try to hide the money in the budget.
--David
Why would you think that I would not want to cut the budget of the department that will be responsible for taking over the country? You have not been reading this blog!
ReplyDeleteYou scenario will not work. Government cannot transfer dollars from one agency to another. The Republicans offerred him that opportunity, but Obams turned them down.
Why? Because you are a big proponent of maintaining -- even increasing -- military spending. This is a surreptitious strategy to sustain military spending even though (technically) this crap is being purchased out of the Homeland budget instead of the military budget. Again, I am not talking about transferring money from one agency to another. I am talking about one agency purchasing weapons to be used by another agency. It is the weapons, not the money, that can get transferred to resupply the military's stock of these items if Obama gets us into a war with Iran or someplace. They are not doing it now, because they don't need it now. Homeland is simply warehousing this stuff for future use by DOD.
ReplyDelete--David
The military only used 90 millions bullets last year! 1.5 billion is a whole decade plus of bullets. Also this purchase of weaponry has been going on long before sequester.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Dave, your argument does not answer the question. Try again? Why is the Homeland Security purchasing bullets, guns, armored vehicles?
Well, if they used only 90 million of them in a year where there was no combat in Iraq and Afghanistan was already winding down, the more interesting question would be how many would they need to fight Iran and the expanding war in the Middle East when the rest of the Islamists countries retaliated against Israel from Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Syria? That is the number of bullets they should be calculating. (As a footnote, I should point out that 1.5 billion is 3 times more than the entire American population.)
ReplyDelete>"Also this purchase of weaponry has been going on long before sequester."
Nearly all the bullet requisitions, etc. were done after the sequester. The connection is obvious...
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2012/09/dhs-ammunition-purchases-approach-1-5-billion-rounds-for-the-year-2468698.html
So, how many bullets does it take to fight a war? Just limiting the discussion to Iraq…
"John Pike, director of the Washington military research group GlobalSecurity.org, said that, based on the GAO's figures, US forces had expended around six billion bullets between 2002 and 2005. "How many evil-doers have we sent to their maker using bullets rather than bombs? I don't know," he said. "
http://rense.com/general67/bullets.htm
If Obama is serious about starting a war with Iran, he is going to need a hell of a lot more than 6 billion bullets.
--David
You continue to miss the point and now we are thinking it is on purpose. You keep moving off the issue. What is the purpose of the Department of homeland security doing purchasing 1.5 billion (nearly 5 bullets for every living American)bullets, 7000 AR-15 guns ( the one the government wants banned) and over 2000 armored vehicles? Not alone to talk about the over 600 FEMA camps around the country. What is going on?
ReplyDeleteDavid, don't you read what you post--here is the first line of the article: "Following controversy over its purchase of around 1.2 billion bullets in the last six months alone,...."
ReplyDeleteThese purchases were before the sequester was even thought of! The article that you are quoting is from September 2012!
You wrote, "These purchases were before the sequester was even thought of!"
ReplyDeleteNot only was sequestration thought of, it was spelled out in full detail in the Budget Control Act of 2011. Most of these bullets, etc. were then purchased in 2012 when they could foresee the sequester coming. I explained why I think they did it that way. You don't agree. You think all this stuff will be used by Russians to kill Americans. We can agree to disagree until January, 2017 at which time you will have been proven wrong.
--David
As an educated, informed person, I have to believe it would be the epitomy of foolishness for any government entity to go to war with the American Public. Look at the facts, 320+ Americans, at 2.5 children per family and assuming 2 parents per household, rounded down would leave roughly 85 million, of which up to 50% would be infirm or ineffective in any kind of defense. Round that down to the actual number that would fight and you might have a force of roughly 35 million. Still a formidable force, but with no structure, logistics, nor leadership. How would it begin? Collapse of US currency, then power outages! Once the power is out, no gas, no water, no food!
ReplyDeleteI would agree that it would be insane--under current rules. However, if the government has the munitions, weapons and tanks, it would change things into the favor of the government. Then you add that they are trying to take away our guns, it starts leveling the field.
ReplyDeleteThen you add the Russian troops who are wearing DHS uniforms, the tide turns against us. And they already have the FEMA camps ready for us rebels.