Police expect Trump to lift limits on surplus military gear

<p dir="ltr"><img src="https://www.yahoo.com/sy/uu/api/res/1.2/ygwRWrPVqSVQ2qVyuRqwrw--/Zmk9c3RyaW07aD03NDQ7cT04MDt3PTEwMDA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/images/US_AHTTP_AP_NEWSBRIEFS/c3bc2b14bfd349d5b6711e2407d23d8a_original.jpg.cf.webp"><br></p> <p dir="ltr">FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2014, file photo, a law enforcement officer watches from an armored vehicle after a device was fired to disperse a crowd during a protest for Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo. National police organizations said they'll hold Donald Trump to his promise to rescind an executive order restricting local law enforcement access to surplus military equipment. Fraternal Order of Police Executive Director James Pasco said he expects the Republican president-elect to honor a commitment he made in September 2016 to the organization of rank-and-file officers to rescind the order President Barack Obama issued in 2015, after an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and riot gear to confront protesters in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)</p> <p dir="ltr">More</p> <p dir="ltr">HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — If president-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again be available to state and local U.S. police departments.</p> <p dir="ltr">National police organizations say they'll hold Trump to that promise.</p> <p dir="ltr">President Barack Obama issued an executive order restricting that access in 2015 amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Since then, federal officials have recalled more than 1,800 items, which have been destroyed through target practice or otherwise disposed of, officials say.</p> <p dir="ltr">But state and local police organizations have protested, insisting that military-style vehicles and gear help protect officers' lives and public safety — for example, a privately manufactured, tracked armored vehicle played a key role in the police response to the mass shooting at a county government building in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015.</p> <p dir="ltr">During his campaign, Trump sided with the police. In September, he promised to rescind the executive order in a written response to a Fraternal Order of Police questionnaire that helped him win an endorsement from the organization of rank-and-file officers.</p> <p dir="ltr">"The 1033 program is an excellent program that enhances community safety. I will rescind the current executive order," reads the response posted on the group's website.</p> <p dir="ltr">"We take him at his word," Executive Director James Pasco said in a recent telephone interview.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Trump transition team did not respond to questions from The Associated Press about the executive order.</p> <p dir="ltr">National Sheriffs' Association Executive Director Jonathan F. Thompson said his group has pressed the topic in discussions with Trump's transition team. And William J. Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, said he was encouraged by his conversations with Trump representatives before the Nov. 8 election.</p> <p dir="ltr">"The feeling that we got is they absolutely hear us and they share our concerns," he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">Obama's order was triggered partly by police use of military-style gear and vehicles in response to the 2014 unrest in Ferguson. The order prohibited the federal government from providing grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles, weaponized aircraft and vehicles, and firearms and ammunition of .50-caliber or greater to state and local police agencies.</p> <p dir="ltr">Since then, the Defense Logistics Agency has recalled 138 grenade launchers, more than 1,600 bayonets and 126 tracked vehicles — those that run on continuous, tank-like tracks instead of wheels — that were provided through the military's 1033 program, agency spokeswoman Michelle McCaskill said.</p> <p dir="ltr">Peter Kraska, a professor at Eastern Kentucky University's School of Justice Studies who has studied the militarization of police, said Obama's executive order has had little effect because there was relatively little demand for the prohibited items to begin with.</p> <p dir="ltr">"It was more symbolic politics than anything substantive," he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">The order also added requirements for record-keeping, local oversight and training for the acquisition or use of other surplus military equipment such as wheeled armored vehicles, but those hurdles apparently have not deterred agencies from obtaining the gear. McCaskill said 183 law enforcement agencies have received mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles or MRAPs, through the 1033 program so far this year. That's more than the 165 MRAPs that were distributed in 2013.</p> <p dir="ltr">Nevertheless, Kraska said, there's nothing to justify most police departments having such equipment.</p> <p dir="ltr">"It just ramps up the probability that this kind of kind of high-end military hardware is going to be misapplied," he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">But Cass County, North Dakota, Sheriff Paul Laney said the executive order is aimed at urban areas and ignores the usefulness of tracked vehicles in rugged terrain.</p> <p dir="ltr">"They fail to realize the dilemma it puts sheriffs in who live in the rural areas, the desert areas, the mountain areas," he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">Oakland County, Michigan, Sheriff Michael Bouchard, whose tracked vehicle was recalled, said rescinding the order would restore police access to equipment they've been denied for what he called "purely optic" reasons.</p> <p dir="ltr">Groups on both ends of the political spectrum have expressed concern about police militarization, from civil-rights organizations such as the NAACP and ACLU to the libertarian Cato Institute.</p> <p dir="ltr">Raed Jarrar, government relations manager for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group committed to peace and social justice, said the executive order wasn't effective but rescinding it would send a message that "rather than attempting to curb militarism, the president-elect is planning to continue on that path."</p> <p dir="ltr">The Charles Koch Institute, founded by its conservative billionaire namesake, considers the restrictions under Obama's executive order "a decent start," said William Ruger, vice president of policy and research.</p> <p dir="ltr">"We don't want local police departments to be incentivized to get the types of equipment that in most cases are a better fit for the war zone," he said.</p>

Police expect Trump to lift limits on surplus military gear

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The FBI’s Hillary email probe is looking even more like a coverup

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Donant Trump Zones in on Populist Contrast with Hillary Clinton Post-Debate: ‘Follow the Money’

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Newt Gingrich: Trump won the debate. Don't believe the Intellectual Yet Idiot class

<p dir="ltr"></p> <p dir="ltr">After all my years in public life I am sickened by the intellectual dishonesty, arrogance, and smugness of what Nassim Taleb calls the Intellectual Yet Idiots.</p> <p dir="ltr">The IYI's showed up immediately after the debate.</p> <p dir="ltr">They stacked the deck against Trump with Lester Holt's one-sided questions and interventions.</p> <p dir="ltr">The Holt-Clinton team was glib, articulate, and self-congratulatory. However, they lost.</p> <p dir="ltr"><i><b>Trump wins strategically because in a blunt, clear style, he is saying things most Americans believe. Trump's opponents, including Holt and Clinton, felt good after the debate because their side was glib, articulate, and said things they and their friends believe to be true.</b></i></p>

Newt Gingrich: Trump won the debate. Don't believe the Intellectual Yet Idiot class

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FACTS

<p dir="ltr"><br></p> <p dir="ltr"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8l5yZkZgoLxXTBWPdaYOmm4Bcz10Z6E7l5QmllnAF4CvGLNXJoH1Fs7ANR9oP3HU61pqJ6_3urn5euWXGvdXPK7uj95-6KVefEhYzV8ljxY65agxb2TV7-Z2nZmf2kWqghkEHksU8zZM/s320/Hil10.jpg"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8l5yZkZgoLxXTBWPdaYOmm4Bcz10Z6E7l5QmllnAF4CvGLNXJoH1Fs7ANR9oP3HU61pqJ6_3urn5euWXGvdXPK7uj95-6KVefEhYzV8ljxY65agxb2TV7-Z2nZmf2kWqghkEHksU8zZM/s1600/Hil10.jpg"></a></p> <p dir="ltr">What I'm about to tell you is only the facts - historical facts, not rumors, not hearsay just plan undeniable facts.</p> <p dir="ltr">(This is just a small percentage of a much longer list )</p> <p dir="ltr">Of the two candidates running for president...</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton was caught lying to congress.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton was fired from a job for being unethical.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton deleted 30 some thousand emails after she was ordered to hand them over to the Fed.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton had that same computer wiped clean by professionals.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton got the rapist of a teenage girl off on rape charges then laughed about it.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton lied to the American people about Benghazi.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton lied to the American people about her emails.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton lied about being under sniper fire.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton lied about lying to the American people.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton was involved in " Cash Cow "</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton has a long list of scandals.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton nationally belittled her husband's sexual harassment ( and rape ) accusers.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton is a career politician.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton will not release her speeches to Goldman Sachs and other banks.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton is tied to Monsanto.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton was labeled " Extremely careless " about national security by the FBI !</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton said she will raise taxes on the middle class.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton benefited from the DNC rigging an election !</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton had to return stolen items from the White House.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton said the Benghazi victims parents where lying.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton wants you to vote for her based on her gender.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton has no real accomplishments after a lifetime in politics.</p> <p dir="ltr">Only Hillary Clinton has never created any jobs.</p>

FACTS

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Trump Offers Tough Talk on Iran, Hammers Hillary Before Massive Florida Crowd

<p dir="ltr"><br> PENSACOLA, FL – On Friday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump flexed his political muscle by drawing one of his largest crowds since securing his party’s nomination in the pivotal battleground state of Florida.<br> In what has traditionally been a very Republican-voting region of the state, Trump backed up his January capacity appearance with another strong showing. It was evident early on, as thousands lined up to get into the Pensacola Bay Center three hours before the rally began to see the presidential hopeful.<br> Trump hammered the usual planks of his campaign stump speech – trade, national defense, immigration, and the flaws of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.<br> He drew perhaps his biggest applause when he told the crowd what he would do to Iranian boats that threatened U.S. ships.<br> “With Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn’t be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water,” he proclaimed.</p>

Trump Offers Tough Talk on Iran, Hammers Hillary Before Massive Florida Crowd

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Trump vs. Hillary: a Summation by Paul Craig Roberts

<p dir="ltr"><b><a href="http://sbynews.blogspot.com.ng/2016/08/trump-vs-hillary-summation-by-paul.html?m=0">Trump vs. Hillary: a Summation by Paul Craig Roberts</a></b></p> <p dir="ltr">The US presidential election this November will tell whether a majority of the US population is irredeemably stupid. If voters elect Hillary, we will know that Americans are stupid beyond redemption.</p> <p dir="ltr">We don’t know much about Trump, and anti-Trump propaganda rules in the place of facts.</p> <p dir="ltr">But we know many facts about Hillary. We know about her violation of classification laws and the refusal of the Democratic administration to do anything about it. The Democrats prefer to control the White House than to enforce the law, another nail in the coffin in which the rule of law in the US lies.</p> <p dir="ltr">We know from their words and deeds and material success that the Clintons are agents for Wall Street, the Big Banks, the military/security complex, Israel, agribusiness, and the extractive industries. Their large personal fortune, approximately $120 million, and the $1,600 million in their foundation, much of which came from abroad in exchange for political favors, attests to the unchallengable fact that the Clintons are agents for the oligarchy that rules America, indeed, that rules the American Empire from Australia and Japan, through North America and Western and Eastern Europe to the Russian border.</p>

Trump vs. Hillary: a Summation by Paul Craig Roberts

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Imagining Hillary Clinton as president

<p dir="ltr"></p> <p dir="ltr">”At long last,” she thinks. “My time has come. They’re now all here, fighting for me.”</p> <p dir="ltr">And with that, her first orders in the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/white-house/">White House</a> will be to strip and replace the telecommunications system. Yes, she and Bill did that in the early 1990s, but surely it’s become outdated. Plus, there’s always been that lurking suspicion that someone’s tapping their phone calls.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The Obama’s are technically on our side, but they’ve never really trusted us,” she thinks. “The way Obama denied Sidney Blumenthal a job at State — he was my personal friend and that was my call to make. Plus, they’ve always been suspicious of our great charity work, its best they remain on the outside.”</p>

Imagining Hillary Clinton as president

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U.S. Flag.......Banned

<p dir="ltr"><br></p> <p dir="ltr"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjybN0v1G7X5pZ_TgK_Se4K6AcLaxYcSemuWoW9Ycqwq-YHcfQ12musNFUkwTqVsWIRHRTYLUEvvSSOZcGDnmNnSpERanneF_7rTtuhITv42fTw1BiBT5ApkLnyyhetb59HJXF2ywhO51o/s320/flag-1000x640.jpg"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjybN0v1G7X5pZ_TgK_Se4K6AcLaxYcSemuWoW9Ycqwq-YHcfQ12musNFUkwTqVsWIRHRTYLUEvvSSOZcGDnmNnSpERanneF_7rTtuhITv42fTw1BiBT5ApkLnyyhetb59HJXF2ywhO51o/s1600/flag-1000x640.jpg"></a></p> <p dir="ltr">Rush Limbaugh has been warning about this from some time – that leftists are out to eliminate the red, white and blue of Old Glory and brand our flag as oppressive and racist. After all, look how quickly they got rid of the Confederate flag?</p> <p dir="ltr">Our nation is in the midst of a national discussion over this very issue as we speak.</p> <p dir="ltr">As you know, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the National Anthem because <a href="http://www.allenbwest.com/michele/nfl-star-refuses-stand-national-anthem-happens-immediately">he says</a> “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”</p> <p dir="ltr">So to some, the Stars and Stripes have already become offensive. A “trigger” that encroaches on delicate snowflakes’ safe spaces. It must be banned.</p> <p dir="ltr">And if you think that’s a crazy tinfoil hat theory, think again.</p> <p dir="ltr">It’s already happening</p>

U.S. Flag.......Banned

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WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Hillary Clinton's 'elite immunity' protects her from prosecution

<p dir="ltr"></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/wikileaks/">Wikileaks</a> founder <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/julian-assange/">Julian Assange</a> told “Fox and Friends” on Friday that Hillary Clinton is targeted by his organization is because “elite immunity” protects her from prosecution.</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/julian-assange/">Mr. Assange</a> told Fox’s Brian Kilmeade that he inserts himself into U.S. politics because powerful circles band together to shield elites in Washington, D.C.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Hillary Clinton is not the only one who has elite immunity,” <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/julian-assange/">Mr. Assange</a><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/26/assange-slams-incredible-politicization-media-covering-campaign.html">added</a> while speaking from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. “Yes, it’s because of the size of her network, the amount of cronyistic influences she’s developed, she’s a hard target for people to tackle. She can affect them back. You also see no one from the National Security Agency was prosecuted as a result of Edward Snowden’s disclosures.”</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/julian-assange/">Mr. Assange</a> said the most “shocking” information he has learned about the former secretary of state is yet to come. When the “Fox and Friends” panel asked him about Mr. Trump’s campaign, he said it was difficult to release anything that was more damaging to the man than what he says publicly on a daily basis.</p>

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: Hillary Clinton's 'elite immunity' protects her from prosecution

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Trump Retaliates on ‘predator’ Clinton with Devastating Video

<p dir="ltr"><b><a href="http://sbynews.blogspot.com.ng/2016/08/trump-retaliates-on-predator-clinton.html?m=0">mp Retaliates on ‘predator’ Clinton with Devastating Video</a></b></p> <p dir="ltr"><b>And she can kiss those black votes goodbye!</b></p> <p dir="ltr">If you come after Donald Trump, he’ll come right back at you — only twice as hard.</p> <p dir="ltr">That rule was confirmed in spades Friday when the Republican presidential nominee responded to Hillary Clinton’s claim that he’s a racist and white supremacist, and he used her own words to do it.</p> <p dir="ltr">He put together a video montage of the former secretary of state and posted it to his<a href="https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/videos/10157566037645725/">Facebook page</a> under the heading, “The Clinton’s are the real predators…”</p>

Trump Retaliates on ‘predator’ Clinton with Devastating Video

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Close All Mosques, Ban Koran; Poll-Leading Dutch 'Freedom' Party Unveils De-Islamization Manifesto

<p dir="ltr"></p> <p dir="ltr">Geert Wilders, head of the right-wing Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), launched a new manifesto that calls for the "de-Islamization" of the Netherlands" as he leads in the polls to become the next prime minister.</p> <p dir="ltr">Titled, "The Netherlands is ours again," Wilders published the one page, 11 point screed on Thursday, highlighting the party’s hard-line positions on Islam...</p> <p dir="ltr">The document, published ahead of a general election in March, calls for the closure of all mosques and Islamic schools, a ban on the Koran, and “no more immigrants from Islamic countries.” A ban on “Islamic headscarves” in public is also proposed, as well as the prohibition of all “Islamic expressions which violate public order.” All these measures will, Wilders argues, save the country €7.2 bn (US$8bn).</p> <p dir="ltr">An English translation can be<a href="https://medium.com/@flaviadzodan/be-afraid-geert-wilders-released-his-platform-for-next-years-election-a1ac453a0fff#.6io2cksre"> found here</a>...</p>

Close All Mosques, Ban Koran; Poll-Leading Dutch 'Freedom' Party Unveils De-Islamization Manifesto

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Is This Hillary Clinton's Roadmap For America?

<p dir="ltr"></p> <p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/08/alinskys-daughter-here-is-the-truth-about-hillary-the-media-will-not-tell-you">As Conservative Review's Jen Kuznicki explains</a>, in 1993, the president of Wellesley College approved a new rule upon being contacted by Bill Clinton’s White House. The rule stated that all senior theses written by a president or first lady of the United States would be kept under lock and key. The rule was meant to keep the public ignorant about the radical ties of the first lady, <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/2016-presidential-candidates/candidates/hillary-clinton">Hillary Rodham Clinton</a>, to the radical Marxist organizer, Saul Alinsky. The <a href="http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/files/hillaryclintonthesis-ocr.pdf">92-page thesis was titled</a>, “There is only the fight…: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” The thesis became unlocked after the Clintons left the White House and is now posted online.</p> <p dir="ltr">After being ruled by Barack Obama, another Alinskyite, for 8 years, perhaps one might think the fact that the modern Democratic Party is completely taken over by Alinskyites is old news, but the connection between Alinsky and Hillary is special.</p> <p dir="ltr">Hillary describes Alinsky as a “neo-Hobbesian who objects to the consensual mystique surrounding political processes; for him, conflict is the route to power.” Alinsky’s central focus, she notes, is that the community organizer must understand that conflict will arise and to redirect it and, as she quoted him in her thesis, be “...dedicated to changing the character of life of a particular community [and] has an initial function of serving as an abrasive agent to rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; to fan latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expressions... to provide a channel into which they can pour their frustration of the past; to create a mechanism which can drain off underlying guilt for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time. When those who represent the status quo label you [i.e. the community organizer] as an 'agitator' they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function--to agitate to the point of conflict.”</p>

Is This Hillary Clinton's Roadmap For America?

As Conservative Review's Jen Kuznicki explains, in 1993, the president of Wellesley College approved a new rule upon being contacted by Bill Clinton’s White House. The rule stated that all senior the…

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Multiple Polls Show Trump Holding His First Lead Since Democratic Convention

<p dir="ltr"></p> <p dir="ltr"><b>4 point jump in UPI’s figures...</b></p> <p dir="ltr">Two new polls give Donald Trump a slight lead over Hillary Clinton, his first since the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in July.</p> <p dir="ltr">Both <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/">Los Angeles Times</a> and <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/08/26/UPICVoter-poll-Donald-Trump-maintains-slim-lead-over-Hillary-Clinton/4311472221679/">UPI</a> give Trump an extremely slight lead of .7 percent heading into the last weekend in August. (RELATED: New Poll Gives Trump Lead Over Clinton In Florida)</p> <p dir="ltr">In the LA Times poll, released on Thursday, Trump trailed Clinton by as many as 2 points earlier this week, notes <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/26/tracking-poll-donald-trump-now-ahead-0-7/">Breitbart</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Trump saw a 4 point jump in UPI’s figures, released Friday, across the same timeframe.</p>

Multiple Polls Show Trump Holding His First Lead Since Democratic Convention

4 point jump in UPI’s figures... Two new polls give Donald Trump a slight lead over Hillary Clinton, his first since the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention in July. Both Los Angeles Tim…

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