Please don't make this a Libertarian issue. The dangerous and unnecessary millitarization of the police in this country cuts across party lines.

Our trucks save lives. They save police lives. And I can't help but think that the people who are trying to stop this just don't think police officers' lives are worth saving."

See that there? If you don't support this, you support the MURDER of POLICE OFFICERS!

The Keene city council will take up the issue again next month. Massery predicted opposition from Keene residents will ultimately be in vain. "We have Bearcats in 90 percent of the 100 or so largest cities in America," Massery said. "This is going to happen. It has already happened. To resist now would be like saying police officers should scrap the Glock and go back to the revolver. It's a fantasy."

Resistance is futile, Citizen.

"If only the DHS sugar were as sweet as you, sir."

Oh my god, the quarterback is toast!

Does Massery spend every day cowering under his desk in abject fear of the world? Cause it sounds like it does.

WhyteRaven74: Does Massery spend every day cowering under his desk in abject fear of the world cackling like a hyena and counting his coin? Cause it sounds like it does.

Yes. Yes he does.

They're really going to freak out about the battleship.

namegoeshere: The Keene city council will take up the issue again next month. Massery predicted opposition from Keene residents will ultimately be in vain. "We have Bearcats in 90 percent of the 100 or so largest cities in America," Massery said. "This is going to happen. It has already happened. To resist now would be like saying police officers should scrap the Glock and go back to the revolver. It's a fantasy."

Speaking as a resident of New Hampshire, I feel I can say with complete confidence that there isn't a single community north of Boston that realistically needs anything like the Bearcat. It's simply a wasteful vanity project given form by government handouts.

Enjoy your time on the throne, elected officials of Keene. You won't be back next term.

What are all of you AFRAID of if you have nothing to hide?

"Your papers please...."

For that kind of scratch they could get a fleet of these.

Mike Clark said he knows how the council works. "They can pass these things without any public discussion," Clark said. "And you don't hear about them until they've already passed.

This describes every town in the world.

Bearcat



Nothin' makes you feel more like a man.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. What have we here, gentlemen? The police have themselves an RV.

Keene, NH.



You will never find a more wretch hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

hogans: namegoeshere: The Keene city council will take up the issue again next month. Massery predicted opposition from Keene residents will ultimately be in vain. "We have Bearcats in 90 percent of the 100 or so largest cities in America," Massery said. "This is going to happen. It has already happened. To resist now would be like saying police officers should scrap the Glock and go back to the revolver. It's a fantasy."

Speaking as a resident of New Hampshire, I feel I can say with complete confidence that there isn't a single community north of Boston that realistically needs anything like the Bearcat. It's simply a wasteful vanity project given form by government handouts.

Enjoy your time on the throne, elected officials of Keene. You won't be back next term.

FTFY. The police aren't a farking army, and giving them that kind of hardware is a BAD IDEA. There are enough cockbags with god complexes in various police forces without giving them farking APCs.

No RV for you...

FTFA: "When you see some Palestinian terrorist causing problems in Jerusalem, what do you usually see next? You see a tank with a cannon show up outside the guy's house, and the tank blows the house to smithereens. When a Lenco Bearcat shows up at a crime scene where a suicidal killer is holding hostages, it doesn't show up with a cannon. It shows up with a negotiator."

That's some Palin-level reasoning right there.

DrBenway: Follow the money:

Jim Massery, the government sales manager for Pittsfield, Mass.-based Lenco, dismissed critics who wonder why a town with almost no crime would need a $300,000 armored truck. "I don't think there's any place in the country where you can say, 'That isn't a likely terrorist target,'" Massery said. "How would you know? We don' t know what the terrorists are thinking. No one predicted that terrorists would take over airplanes on Sept. 11. If a group of terrorists decide to shoot up a shopping mall in a town like Keene, wouldn't you rather be prepared?" (FTA)

This concludes our presentation of Assery with Massery. I hope you enjoyed our program.

I'm thinking terrorists would target a police armored truck if it came to that.

eggrolls: Keene, NH.

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You will never find a more wretch hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

Are you sure? That's one angry looking gazebo.

Pfft. That bearcat will look SWEET smack dab in between the TacoTime cruiser and the homcoming king and queen of Keene Junior High during the Fall Festival parade.

Naysayers will nay.

Say nay, naysayers. Say nay.

I am quite sure small town New England is on some whackos map to go tearing up...

hell at that price, why not buy two?

germ78: eggrolls: Keene, NH.

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You will never find a more wretch hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

Are you sure? That's one angry looking gazebo.

Small towns are a nightmare.

Imagine living in a community with an HOA run by a bunch of egomaniacal busybodies, that has the power to levy taxes and have you arrested. That's what most small towns in the US are like.

Thankfully, federal law still rules the land, or most small towns would outlaw gays, blacks, birth control, evolution, foreign cars, the internet, liquor, and rock-n-roll.

GGracie: I have always wondered what happens to people after these news stories air. Will the douchey mayor who wanted this bullsh*t be embarrassed at all? Will he be ashamed when he makes eye contact at the local market with the citizens he planned to terrorize with this piece of mechanized martial law madness?

No and no. Sociopaths, especially ones drunk on power, don't feel remorse or shame for what they have done to others.

Speaking as someone from Keene, this hasn't been a major issue. All the noise is from the free staters who moved in a few years ago. The police wanted more, but they didnt get it, thats all.

"It promotes violence," Mastrogiovanni said. "We should promote more human interaction rather than militarize. I refuse to use money for something this unnecessary when so many people in our community are in need."

Not your money, Mastrogiovanni. The money for the purchase is coming from a federal grant.

I became sick after reading these two lines, specifically.

-Our trucks save lives. They save police lives. And I can't help but think that the people who are trying to stop this just don't think police officers' lives are worth saving."

-"We have Bearcats in 90 percent of the 100 or so largest cities in America," Massery said. "This is going to happen. It has already happened. To resist now would be like saying police officers should scrap the Glock and go back to the revolver. It's a fantasy."

But, then I watched the video, and threw up. Link (new window)

Small NH College town (went there). I confirm the police in that and other small towns (Peterborough) dream of being Boston PD but just couldn't make the grade.

Mock26: Not your money, Mastrogiovanni. The money for the purchase is coming from a federal grant.

I wonder where the federal government got the money...

base935: But, then I watched the video, and threw up. Link (new window)

I would have zero problems if people blew these up at random. I imagine something along the lines of the scene at the end of Saving Private Ryan when they're engaging the German tanks.

Alex Jones obsessed over posse comitatus in Police State 2000, but it seems that the police are just becoming the military.

The scary part is that these "hand-outs" could be happening throughout the country without any oversight as many communities do not have to engage/inform the populace about it, if it did not cost or was part of the local budget.

What bearcats may look like