Pentagon provides military grade weapons to local police

Local law enforcement has been getting assistance from the Pentagon. The recent militarization of the police at the Occupy protests has proved this true. The Pentagon program is getting military-grade weapons in the hands of local law enforcement in the US to use on American citizens. The Department of Defense has handed over $500 million worth of weapons this year. Is the government gearing up for mainstream to rise up? Max Blumenthal, writing fellow for The Nation Institute, joins us to answer some of these questions.

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[Ariana321]

@USStateSponTerrorism Many of our military leaders have stated they will disobey any order pitting them against the American people. A civil war is looking more and more likely, but I guarantee you, Americans won't be fighting against their own military, rather we'll be fighting against government funded mercenaries.

[Ariana321]

@TheeBudGuru Yep... Welcome to Soviet America.

[eckoultimate]

@Ariana321 YAY NO CIVIL WAR!!

[nigdean789]

@willythewildwino its kinda funny i think...if you wanna watch news on your country, watch other news channels because they defiantly won't report stuff about how there own country is fucked

[LadySeraph]

Hey RT, why not report on Occupy Moscow? How are the police treating our Russian brothers and sisters?

[nowwithmorekick]

@SVB222 Oh yeah because Jewish people just love killing each other.

[nowwithmorekick]

How much do you want to bet that all 20,000 soldiers they brought back to the US to fight terrorism and to stop riots are all hand picked. I bet they are going to get people who seen a lot of crazy shit and was a little crazy to begin with.They are going to unleash soldiers who are use to dealing with people trying to kill them and very possibly like to kill them selves.I already know 99.9% that someone is getting shot and we are going to have another Ohio but probably worse.

[biorgymd]

@SturmWolfe You are absolutely correct; I shouldn’t have called you an AMERICUNT, being that you are Canadian CANADIANCUNT would be the appropriate scientific term. By the way, when we are interested in knowing what kind of maple syrup to have with our pancakes we’ll let you know? 

[SVB222]

@Ariana321 Funded by zionists and nazis....

[SVB222]

@Ariana321 Only super-capitalist....

[SturmWolfe]

@biorgymd LOL I'm not even American. Holy shit, you really need to calm down. I wasn't even endorsing the American government's decisions. Quit jumping to conclusions with ignorance before stating crap. You just made a complete and utter ass of yourself, CUNT.