Homeland Security Orders Enough Ammo to Sustain a 20 Year War in the Homeland.

The Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, much of it,* hollow point rounds, forbidden by international law for use in war. Moreover, the Department of Homeland Security is taking delivery of an undetermined number of the recently retrofitted 2,717 ‘Mine Resistant Protected’ MaxxPro MRAP vehicles for service on the streets of the United States.

The question is, why would any government purchase billions of rounds of ammo, militarize the police (Many local police departments, even some in very small communities, are being armed to the teeth by federal grants and military hand-me-downs. This includes drones and armored personnel carriers), while tracking every thing a citizen does, etc? Perhaps it's to secure the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Perhaps it's to drive up market price for consumers, and kill supply, back-door gun control, ammo control. Perhaps it's to neutralize domestic resistance if, let's say, the economy collapses entirely.

However, the real reason I'm posting this is not for the information, because the arms build-up by the DHS is basically old news--alternative media reported on this months ago--but because it comes from a so-called legitimate media source: FORBES.

* The Hollow Point Round Is Outlawed In War By The Geneva Convention, Why?

A military round rotates as it travels through the air at about 15,000 rpm. When a hollow point round hits flesh it begins to spread open like a flower but the metal petals of this flower shaped round is razor sharp. Its a razor sharp pin wheel rotating through a body at 15,000 rpm. The hollow point creates all kinds of damage to its human target and actually whips the insides of a body like a cake mixer. It is intended to create horrible wounds that cannot be treated. Surgeons risk cutting their fingers while removing the razor sharp hollow point rounds or fragments of this bullet.

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Homeland Security Explains Plan To Purchase More Than 1.6 Billion Bullets: Buying In Bulk Is Cheaper

“Internment and Resettlement Operations”

Page 38 clearly states that it applies to U.S. territory.

Para. 10-40 says Internment and Resettlement may be done in support of DOMESTIC operations (for natural and “man made” disasters).

Page 146 directs that social security numbers are to be placed on the second line.

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Sandy Hook: Sorting Fact From Fiction

With good reason, more than a few people remain skeptical of the official story regarding what happened in Sandy Hook that fateful morning, December 14, 2012. Once again, we're told to swallow whatever the mainstream media tells us without question, no matter how ludicrous. Misinformation abounds making the truth almost impossible to discern, however, by analyzing the timeline, it's possible to, at the very least, come to the conclusion that something is very wrong.

Mark Howitt has done an outstanding job collecting, assembling and analyzing information and evidence from the Sandy Hook shooting, and consolidating it into a two-hour documentary. He includes an investigation of the timeline of recordings of the police and medical scanners, which illuminates the order of events down to the second. As you will hear for yourself, the police audio reveals that there were seven suspects if you include Adam Lanza, who, by the way, died on December 13, 2012, according to the Social Security Death Index--and that's not the only date discrepancy, at least, three Sandy Hook memorial web pages were created and uploaded, from November 10 to December 13-- the day before the shooting. The audio also reveals that they were looking for a purple van with two people in ski masks, and one or more people dressed as nuns.  Not only that, at 9:55:44, an officer is heard stating" End the life of Adam."  End the life of Adam?  What's that supposed to mean?



On 12/14/2012, the same day of the Sandy Hook school shooting, the State of Connecticut Department of Homeland Security scheduled the course, FEMA L-366 Planning for the need of Children in Disasters only 20 minutes north of Newtown.

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Firearms: Prosthetics for Defective Courage?

Back in March I wondered why guns were considered so manly. After all, anyone from a little child to an old woman can aim and fire, and with any luck, kill, so what's with all the machismo? And yes, I have fired a short barreled 44 Magnum and a .45 Magnum, at random times, and other than maybe a little tingling, I can't say it was all that brutal.

Anyway, here's my update to that oh so profound and inspiring post:

The Violence Policy Center began an ongoing research project to identify and tally killings in five separate categories, beginning in May 2007 to the present by individuals with concealed handgun permits. As the result of a massive campaign led by the gun lobby, almost all states maintain a veil of secrecy around those who have been issued permits to carry concealed handguns. Therefore, the VPC is forced to rely primarily on news accounts for reports of killings by concealed handgun permit holders and subsequent legal proceedings.

Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers and 98 private citizens (including 12 shooters who killed themselves after an attack) since May 2007

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I don't get it. Why do guns make for a manly man? With the exception of Dirty Harry, I don't see it. At least Dirty Harry made "good" use of his gun and tried to right wrongs by pursuing wrongdoers. Whether or not his actions were justified is another issue for another time.

However, firearms - pistols, self-loading assault rifles, shotguns, etc - were created in order to protect and defend us from danger...in other words, from what we fear.

Firepower allow us to feign self-confidence, and mask terror in bravado, sometimes desensitizing ourselves to what we fear. So many times, the weapons we stockpile are useless in the face of what we really fear, our own mortality. The truth is everyone of us is more fragile, limited, helpless, and dependent than we would like to admit. That in this great big world, all it takes is one small hiccup from nature, and in less than one millisecond, we could all evaporate as if we never existed.

I'll even go as far as to say, it would have been far manlier, if Dirty Harry carried a knife, brass knuckles, or the most manly of all, relied on his bare knuckles, rather than carry such a user-friendly, metal contraption that shoots deadly projectiles, so easy to use, even Paris Hilton could take over, and just might, if she thought that by doing so, she would attract more followers.

NRA "from my cold dead hands" gun owners, so quick to label gun-control liberals as sissies, must wear these "bravado" masks to cover up the trembling men of fear that they really are underneath. Gun ownership, in this country is more often a sign of cowardice than bravery, as they are an easy way to assuage fear for people too frightened to face the world without a a prosthetic device that allows them to remain erect and stand "strong".

Unless your address is 123 Front Line Blvd, Brutal Warzone, Planet Earth, 45678, it's hard to understand why a big, strong, courageous, manly man needs to stockpile pistols, self-loading assault rifles, and shotguns, for any other reason than he's a big ol' sissy, afraid of his own shadow, or perhaps, he is compensating for something lacking in size or potency.

Since when is brute strength, virility, honor, chivalry, bravery, and/or any other manly qualities, required to operate most firearms? Any grandma with enough strength and coordination to operate an old-fashioned can opener, more than likely, can pull a trigger. Shouldn't big strong, courageous manly men, living in a civilized society, be able to function without the protection of so many powerful artificial devices of courage?

Former President George W. Bush would definitely disagree, as "a federal judge blocked a last-minute rule enacted by President George W. Bush allowing visitors to national parks to carry concealed weapons."

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How Citizens Carry Loaded Handguns in 49 States

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