Truth is Treason – by Kevin Hayden
Law enforcement agencies are turning to the Department of Defense, more and more, for their tactical policing needs, requesting such items as Mine Resistant Ambush Protection (MRAP) vehicles, surplus Humvees, rifles, and other assorted military-grade hardware. While some can be used in special operations, such as protecting officers from active shooters, or gaining entry into heavily fortified buildings, the sheer audacity of one Oklahoma Sheriff goes far beyond this.
Sheriff Randall Edwards, of the Canadian County Sheriff’s Office, located on the western edge of Oklahoma City, has failed miserably in his attempt to soften the image of these war machines by stenciling, “Protecting Your Constitutional Rights“, on the sides of his new MRAP and Humvee.
How does a 50,000 lb. vehicle, capable of shielding occupants from rocket propelled grenades and AK-47 fire, protect American Rights?
Does this vehicle serve to protect protesters exercising their First Amendment right? Will the Sheriff deploy this armored beast to aide in citizens wishing to vote, or perhaps, to shelter his fellow Oklahomans who decide to use their Second Amendment right? I’ll bet that Sheriff West had some grand ideas of using this war machine in order to prevent soldiers from being quartered in peoples’ homes or to resist any future attempts at alcohol prohibition.
While there are many arguments on both sides of the fence for potential, legitimate uses of such hardware, this author can not come up with a single Constitutional Right that might be “protected” by six heavily armed soldiers – err, law enforcers – riding around in an RPG-proof weapon of war, tearing open walls or serving as a sniper platform.
Instead, they are quickly deployed when small groups of angry citizens hold up signs and exercise their First Amendment right to protest and petition for a redress of grievances, often being answered with a volley of tear gas and rubber bullets.
These armored vehicles are typically used in serving drug warrants, which do nothing to protect the average citizen’s rights. How many headlines must we read in which a seven year old girl is shot and killed while she slept because law enforcement raided a home over a small amount of marijuana, or perhaps the countless family pets who are indiscriminately shot and killed, merely for greeting those rushing through the front door in the middle of the night?
Undersheriff West claims the vehicles will be used to protect his deputies, respond to natural disasters, and assist citizens in need, but with a carrying capacity of only five officers, plus the driver, it’s not going to do much. Instead, the plentiful, surplus M35 cargo truck could be much more effective, with the same ground clearance, and rescue at least a dozen, if not more.
If this law enforcement agency was aiming for public relations points, Sheriff Edwards and Undersheriff Chris West, has failed, miserably, and I say that as a former police officer. It’s no longer shocking news, with the widely publicized Ferguson, Missouri riots, that police agencies are utilizing these vehicles, but to paint that on the side is just a slap in the face and a clear indication that the approaching Police State no longer cares to hide itself.
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Kevin Hayden is a former New Orleans police officer-turned-truth seeker. He endured Hurricane Katrina’s chaos and societal collapse in the days following and after 5 years in New Orleans, moved to Oklahoma. Kevin currently runs www.TruthisTreason.net and promotes education regarding our monetary, food, and foreign policies while building an off-grid shipping container homestead. He is a former investigator for Big Oil, has appeared on numerous radio shows, and enjoys helping people become better prepared for disasters.
We live in bizarro world, where up is down, night is day, and superman flies backwards with the ‘S’ on his ass instead of his chest.
To whomever detailed that mrap, you must of had a brainfart moment, it’s suppose to read: “Crushing Your Constitutional Rights”. Get it right dufus!
AMEN
they need a “barf bag” dispenser, like planes have, mounted under the new detail job
The only way those vehicles could be protecting my constitutional rights would be if they used them to arrest all of the criminals in DC.
or just drive them into those criminals houses
Between Baby Bou Bou {flash grenade victim} , The Kenyan mao mao and Sheriff Rambo Edwards I’d say we have entered The Twilight Zone
Unfrigginbelievable…..The balls on them! Especially since the police say we have no Constitution or Bill or Rights anymore and that Barry basically destroyed them.
Talk about speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
Thats funny if their supposed to be protecting our constitutional rights we don’t seem to be able to exercise many of them.
dont complain. you dont have to quarter soldiers. and woman can vote. lol still.
Is not shooting at an intruder serving a “warrant” the same as quartering and if they are dressed like military is that not the same?
dang we better stop giving the third away too!!!
well now. that’s the first vehicle for us to commandeer when we begin taking our republic back, wouldn’t ya say brothers and sisters in the trenches?
lol
Not my color…
Do they come in OLIVE?lol
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What would happen if one of those tear-gas thingies was stuck to the air-intake grill on the front while the vehicle was occupied by thugs with badges? Teeheehee.
they would put on their gas masks.
If it was filled with co2???
fall asleep and choke!
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