Obama administration has been supplying military equipment to colleges across the U.S

Strange; the Obama Administration promotes gun control, as do most of the Democratic Party, and yet they freely, nay, generously give high powered weapons away for the asking

Obama administration has been supplying military equipment to colleges across the U.S

The U.S. government has not just been equipping police with military weaponry; they’ve been supplying such weapons to colleges as well. According to The Chronicles of Higher Education:

http://chronicle.com/article/On-Campus-Grenade-Launchers/148749/

“Should the campus police at the University of Central Florida ever need a modified grenade launcher, one sits waiting in the department’s armory. Retooled to fire tear-gas canisters, the weapon was used several years ago for training purposes, according to Richard Beary, the university’s chief of police. It hasn’t left storage since.

At Central Florida, which has an enrollment of nearly 60,000 and a Division I football team, the device was acquired, a police spokeswoman said, for “security and crowd control.” But the university’s police force isn’t the only one to have come upon a grenade launcher. Hinds Community College—located in western Mississippi, with a student population of 11,000—had one too. (Campus police officers at Hinds declined to comment. A woman who worked for the department but declined to identify herself said that the launcher had been repurposed to shoot flares but that the college no longer possessed it.)

Both institutions received their launchers from the same source: the Department of Defense. At least 117 colleges have acquired equipment from the department through a federal program, known as the 1033 program, that transfers military surplus to law-enforcement agencies across the country, according to records The Chronicle received after filing Freedom of Information requests with state governments (see table of equipment).

Campus police departments have used the program to obtain military equipment as mundane as men’s trousers (Yale University) and as serious as a mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle (Ohio State University). Along with the grenade launcher, Central Florida acquired 23 M-16 assault rifles from the Department of Defense.”

The article goes on to provide a list of weapons supplied by Uncle Sam.

Strange; the Obama Administration promotes gun control, as do most of the Democratic Party, and yet they freely, nay, generously give high powered weapons away for the asking.

Anyone remember Obama’s call for an internal military force?  Colleges have zero need for such weapons, but colleges are one of the Left’s power bases, and should push come to shove students and professors would be the ideal foot soldiers for Obama and the Left. (Colleges usually provide the human grist in Leftist revolutions worldwide.) Seems we now have a revolutionary wing as well armed as the U.S. military.
http://tbirdnow.mee.nu/obama_proposing_american_oprichnina

I am not opposed to private citizens possessing such weapons; Shall Not Be Infringed is pretty clear. But the government is giving weapons to certain groups, and that for a reason. An argument can be made for giving police these weapons - back in the days of the War on Drugs (before America switched sides) local police were often outgunned by the drug cartels (who we have been arming in recent years thanks to Fast and Furious). So the case can be made for arming the police with military surplus. I think it a bad idea, one that should not happen in a free society. But arming colleges? Who else has received this largess?  The new version of ACORN?

And there are practical considerations as well; how do you keep such hardware out of the hands of terrorists? Police departments are difficult enough, but does anyone believe that the rent-a-cops on campus are capable of protecting this serious weaponry.

Strange; the Obama Administration promotes gun control, as do most of the Democratic Party, and yet they freely, nay, generously give high powered weapons away for the asking. They have armed Mexican drug cartels via Fast and Furious. They have armed terrorist groups like ISIS, or the Muslim Brotherhood in the interest of the “Arab Spring”. They have given away all this military hardware to police and colleges and who knows who else. Yet the bitterly oppose private ownership of firearms by responsible Americans. Strange.

Outside of those private firearms who could oppose this lethal force inserted into the community?

And we know that the Administration has been arming some strange bureaucracies; the Social Security Administration, NOAA, NASA, the TSA, and a host of others have received weapons from the government, as of course has the Department of Homeland Security, which has purchased over a billion and a half rounds of hollow point bullets, enough to kill every American.


Here is an interesting essay about the militarization of police. The author concludes with this:
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2014/06/10/police-departments-preparing-for-war-guess-the-enemy/

“Which brings us back to the original question: as the NYT succinctly summarizes the situation, “as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.”

Perhaps that sentence needs some qualification: as Obama, humiliated on the international arena by everyone, from Assad to Putin and back, and desperately seeking to avoid future embarrassment, redeploys weapons of mass murder, why is he seeking to put said weapons – many of which are of the offensive kind – not out to pasture but in America’s very own back yard? Just who does Obama plan to wage his next, and hopefully last, war against? The good news is that everyone will get sufficient advance notice before said war begins by the squadrons of weaponized drones sent out to test the ground, and inflict the “accidental” collateral damage casualty, or million.”

Good question. When the Soviet Union was in peril I translated a speech by Mikhail Gorbachev (Pronounced mee-kai-eel, not McHail like some sort of Golden Arch product, and the last name is Gor-ba-choff, by the way) warned the U.S. of the danger of a Soviet Collapse, that all of the weapons held by the U.S.S.R. would wind up in the hands of, well, whosoever grabbed them. Gorby’s warning is equally germane here; America is sending these weapons hither and yon, to everyone except the People themselves.

But in this case the weapons are going to strange places, to non-military wings of the government, to colleges, to people who could perhaps use them in a civil war - against the American people. Certainly these weapons are being stockpiled for a reason.

Most communist revolutions had their roots in the Universities. Apparently that lesson was not lost on the people behind Barack Hussein Obama.

I would say that maybe the government knows about some threat, but this point is mute because they have opened up our southern border to anyone who wishes to enter - making the likelihood of our enemies coming here for us all the greater. Why arm these groups if we are going to keep the border open? This makes no sense if protecting the People were the prime objective. No, but this comports with the idea that these groups are being armed AGAINST the People. It appears a revolution in the making.

Furthermore, the U.S. has conducted numerous exercises simulating the taking of U.S. cities, and Obama has replaced much of the military high brass, imposing a litmus test that ascertains whether a commander would issue orders to attack the American People. And there are contingency plans for FEMA camps where American citizens can be compelled to perform labor. And there have been attempts to create an internet kill switch. It goes on and on.http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/williams/130203

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/23/military-sources-obama-administration-purging-commanders/

http://www.teaparty.org/obama-asks-military-leaders-if-they-will-fire-on-us-citizens-19039/

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/53539

Here is my take on it.

So now we know the Administration is arming the students. Most communist revolutions had their roots in the Universities. Apparently that lesson was not lost on the people behind Barack Hussein Obama.

By Timothy Birdnow