Yep.
Yep. They are very worried about helping people out in Texas. Lest we forget what a group of disingenuous individuals are running this country.
Sessions said that Trump “is rescinding restrictions from the prior administration that limited your agencies’ ability to get equipment through federal programs, including life-saving gear like Kevlar vests and helmets and first responder and rescue equipment like what they’re using in Texas right now.” Surely the attorney general knows, though, that grenade launchers are not needed to rescue anyone from a flood.
Fact check: the policy did not ban rescue or first responder equipment -
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-afmls/legacy/2015/05/21/05-18-15-wire.pdf
Not to mention that rescue and first responder equipment is available from many non-military sources.
But lets not miss an opportunity to abuse this disaster to our advantage, even if it's just some offhand, manipulative doublespeak.
Lies, damn lies, and this administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/28/trump-now-wants-to-militarize-the-police-at-exactly-the-wrong-moment/?utm_term=.4f79b8840acd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/28/trump-now-wants-to-militarize-the-police-at-exactly-the-wrong-moment/?utm_term=.4f79b8840acd
Sessions said that Trump “is rescinding restrictions from the prior administration that limited your agencies’ ability to get equipment through federal programs, including life-saving gear like Kevlar vests and helmets and first responder and rescue equipment like what they’re using in Texas right now.” Surely the attorney general knows, though, that grenade launchers are not needed to rescue anyone from a flood.
Fact check: the policy did not ban rescue or first responder equipment -
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-afmls/legacy/2015/05/21/05-18-15-wire.pdf
Not to mention that rescue and first responder equipment is available from many non-military sources.
But lets not miss an opportunity to abuse this disaster to our advantage, even if it's just some offhand, manipulative doublespeak.
Lies, damn lies, and this administration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/28/trump-now-wants-to-militarize-the-police-at-exactly-the-wrong-moment/?utm_term=.4f79b8840acd
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/08/28/trump-now-wants-to-militarize-the-police-at-exactly-the-wrong-moment/?utm_term=.4f79b8840acd
This is not subtle. These rules were put in place because of Ferguson and that is exactly why Trump is reversing them. He wants the police ready (physically but perhaps more importantly psychologically) to violently put down protests.
ReplyDeleteDavid Scotton Put down the wrong sort of protests. Compare and contrast police response to post-Ferguson protests to police response in Charlottesville...
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