The footage, recently captured in Spokane Valley, begins with a local resident asking two deputies why police would need vehicles specifically designed for warfare abroad.
“I mean, we’ve got a lot of constitutionalists and a lot of people that stockpile weapons, lots of ammunition,” one deputy says. “They have weapons here locally.”
The startling admission not only points to active surveillance of legal gun owners, but of those who support the country’s founding document, further solidifying concerns among law-abiding citizens that police are receiving military equipment and training in order to target conservative Americans.
The deputy’s specific mention of “constitutionalists,” a broad term covering of millions of Americans, as opposed to criminals in general, also indicates a clear training mindset linked to the FBI and Homeland Security, two groups which have absurdly labeled “liberty-lovers” as terror threats.
Such clear talking points are unsurprising given reports that Spokane County sheriffs have received training from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that ludicrously compares mainline conservative Americans to racist hate groups.
Infowars was unable to reach the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office for comment at the time of publishing, but did speak with Spokane Valley Republican Representative Matthew Shea, who was appalled when presented with the footage.
“Will law abiding citizens who love the Constitution and Rule of Law be hunted down with MRAPs?” Shea asked. “Constitutionalism is fundamental to being an American. To hate the Constitution and those who support it means you are a traitor to this country.”
“This is spitting in the face of all those heroes that fought, bled, and died so we might live free. The question should be, why aren’t you a Constitutionalist? Why don’t you believe in the rule of law? Why don’t you believe that the Constitution means what it says?”
Incredibly, the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office is not the first to cite patriotic Americans as reasoning for military hardware.
A police sergeant in Morgan County, Indiana admitted just last May that his department had obtained an armored vehicle in part because of returning military veterans, deemed domestic terror threats by Homeland Security in 2009.
In August of 2013, Concord, New Hampshire Police Chief John Duval secretly contacted Homeland Securityand demanded an armored vehicle due to the alleged “threat” posed by peaceful libertarians.
A New York State Counter Terrorism Bulletin leaked to Infowars by concerned police that same year attempted to label anyone concerned with government gun confiscation as “far right” conspiracy theorists, even as admitted gun confiscation programs are used against law abiding citizens in states such as California.
The MIAC Report, a federal training document famously presented to Missouri police in 2009, went as far as falsely tying supporters of former Presidential Candidate Ron Paul and the Constitution to “extremist groups” as well.
Despite a massive drop in police officer deaths, gun homicide and violent crime in the last 2o years, government agencies across the board continue to adopt military tactics in order to fight anything that represents traditional America.
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This is nothing more than a scare tactic.
They figure they will puff out their feathers and shake their military hardware at us and we will cower in fear,
The US government abroad has been run circles around by goatherders and shop keepers in slippers and dresses, no offense to the many good men and women who serve,
But if these arseholes think they will scare us they are sadly mistaken.
Resolve
The only thing this does is strengthen the resolve of those of us who just dont give a damn what these globalist control freak arseholes think.
NOMFI
Why isn’t he dressed in the colors of the season and using the truck to deliver toys and candy to the children of our police state for publicity?
Why did she not ask him if you are scare of “constitutionalists,” Then who the hell are you a “communist” if not for the “constitution,” you must be?
I know. WTF? Someone ought to ask that cop, what’s that oath you swore to uphold?
Oh yea, THE CONSTITUTION!!! So, that would make you a CONSTITUTIONALIST yourself. So that would mean you are fighting yourself, right? And if you are not a Constitutionalist, then what the hell are you? A Communist? A traitor? A mercenary? Do you even know who you are?
They need these items because they know when it does go down they will be primary targets. It is easy enough to stop such vehicles and when they can no longer move they will become the JBT’s dead traps. Oh we are stuck lets make a run for it! I would hate to be the first one out the door.
Guess like Mark K. says, another kick butt vehicle to use for our arsenal and deal with the likes of this muscle bound idiot!
You’ve got that right Katie
Everything can be stopped, everything can be opened, and everything can be terminated.
I repeat, Cops are pussies. So fn scared of everybody. Stupid bastard, what did you swear an oath to? The Constitution? Really? Did I say they were pussies? They’re stupid, too.
The attitude that this creep displays is very much what a SOVIET Commissar would think and say. It also I’m sure will reinforce the notion to millions of Americans: ” Looks like we have communists running the government at all levels now, and it looks like we are going into a war, so we’re going to make sure we are ready for it when the balloon finally does go up.”. I’m sure that is what people are thinking, because it seems like a lot of people I DON”T know are telling me that. People are Fed up with being Economically Terrorized, and Being Terrorized by Police who protect and empower a Parliament of Tyrants.
This is great material for recruitment of militiamen. Stupid COPs please keep it up with this attitude and threats? Each time these nut cases spouts off all they do is push more people to our side. When the balloon goes up they may be at the beginning of understanding that they have awoken a sleeping giant that they can’t defeat and will annihilate them in a full on confrontation. The only way they can continue to survive is to buffalo the population with threats and acts of terror.
What to know what a terrorist is? You just saw one .