Is this the type of country we've become?

[TheBlackPeterSchiff]

http://a57.foxnews.com/www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/0/0/091011_terrorthreattop3_20110910_222121.jpg


Front page for fox news.

[bluesc]

http://a57.foxnews.com/www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/0/0/091011_terrorthreattop3_20110910_222121.jpg


Front page for fox news.

Yep, there is a terror threat. We need troops everywhere with M16s next to children.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Qo0isvPrMc

I wonder what else he will use this "threat" for.

[CaptainAmerica]

NO FUCKING WAY. what the FUCK.

[TheBlackPeterSchiff]

And the poor kids are bring brought up to think this is the "norm"

[QueenB4Liberty]

how sad

[flightlesskiwi]

*shaking head*

now, if that was a pic of me holding my assault rifle standing next to my kids, totally different story.

[manny229]

NYC has been like this since 9/11. I remember National Guard troops in Grand Central station with m-16's within a week after 9/11. I was not impressed by the uniforms, (sloppy stance, unkept BDU's) but others basically worshiped these guys as heros. :(

edit: 3 years before 9/11 I was in Europe and saw soilders at train stations etc.... and thought "This will never happen in the USA" :(

[Pericles]

*shaking head*

now, if that was a pic of me holding my assault rifle standing next to my kids, totally different story.

That would make me feel safer. I don't think the NG guy has the SAPI plates in that vest ....

[Corydoras]

They're waiting for a Mumbai hotel scene to happen.

[heavenlyboy34]

This is the "normalization of tyranny/police statism" that's been worrying me a very long time. :(

[Sola_Fide]

http://a57.foxnews.com/www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/0/0/091011_terrorthreattop3_20110910_222121.jpg


And so goes our republic...

[heavenlyboy34]

http://a57.foxnews.com/www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/0/0/091011_terrorthreattop3_20110910_222121.jpg


And so goes our republic...
IMO, it's more like the end of the 3rd republic. Historically, the American republic has grown beyond the scope of a republic and then collapsed back 3 times, sort of like how Rome began as a republic, grew to an empire, then collapsed back into a republic. (some historians reckon it differently, though)

[pcosmar]

Can someone explain to me how an M-16 or even a squad of them is going to stop a Highjacked airplane.
Or an 18 wheeler full of explosives. or even one guy with a suicide vest?

What a pointless show.

:mad:

[Pericles]

Can someone explain to me how an M-16 or even a squad of them is going to stop a Highjacked airplane.
Or an 18 wheeler full of explosives. or even one guy with a suicide vest?

What a pointless show.

:mad:

Want to bet the magazine in that M16 is empty?

[heavenlyboy34]

Can someone explain to me how an M-16 or even a squad of them is going to stop a Highjacked airplane.
Or an 18 wheeler full of explosives. or even one guy with a suicide vest?

What a pointless show.

:mad:
Yep. Historically, this has been an intimidation tactic to make the people docile and very aware of the consequences of questioning authority.

[Sola_Fide]

Can someone explain to me how an M-16 or even a squad of them is going to stop a Highjacked airplane.
Or an 18 wheeler full of explosives. or even one guy with a suicide vest?

What a pointless show.

:mad:

Good point.

The "show" is to show us that they control us, not that they can repel hijacked airplanes.

[pcosmar]

Want to bet the magazine in that M16 is empty?

No bet,, I have carried empty,, and seen it in other places.

It is propaganda show.