Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway

[Crazy Horse]

Are they ever happy?????

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3205184

proud2Blib  (1000+ posts)       Fri Apr-25-08 01:29 AM
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Machine Gun-Toting Officers To Patrol NYC Subway
 Advertisements [?]NEW YORK (CBS) ― The NYPD is pulling out all the stops to beef up safety of the subways. On Thursday it launched a new anti-terror effort called "Operation Torch," but the cost of the program is raising some eyebrows.

The NYPD's new firepower consists of cops with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Starting Thursday, five or six teams a day will patrol the major transit hubs in the city in the new program, all thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant.

"Times Square, Grand Central, Penn Station … the locations you would expect, but not only those locations. The assignments will vary and will be following no discernible pattern," NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

more . . . http://wcbstv.com/local/machine.guns.subway.2.707398.ht...

 

Mind_your_head  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-25-08 01:31 AM
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1. I'll feel like I'm in Israel! HallalejuH!!!!! eom

JonathanChance (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-25-08 02:17 AM
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8. Or London.
 When I was in London last year, I stopped in this little store on my way back from my Internship to pick up a bottle of Irn Bru, and a Crunchie bar. I was walking to the counter, and in walked these two London police officers, one holding a MP5 subgun. It really freaked me out at the time. I thought they were going to raid the place, but it turns out they were ther for the same reason as me. To pick up a drink and a candy bar. I was later told that these officers were part of a special division tasked with VIP and sensitive area protection.

Scared the shit out of me at the time.

You do remember their subway and a bus blowing up..............oh never mind that was holograms or some secret British plot

MidwestTransplant  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-25-08 01:43 AM
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3. Submachine guns are a sure deterence to suicide bombers.

 
 

alittlelark  (1000+ posts)       Fri Apr-25-08 01:54 AM
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4. While travelling through S America in the early 90's I saw many
 machine gun toting 'police'. It made me feel soooo fortunate to live in the USA - we would never do that..................................

 

BushDespiser12  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-25-08 01:57 AM
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5. And so it ends...

   

thunder rising  (1000+ posts)       Fri Apr-25-08 02:05 AM
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6. Gotta keep the fear level up ya'know. FEAR FEAR and more FEAR! 

DFW  (1000+ posts)       Fri Apr-25-08 03:24 AM
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9. I guess I'm lucky to be alive
 I was just in New York City last weekend, and took the subway a lot, including the
crosstown shuttle between Grand Central and Times Square.

Despite the frequent dastardly attacks by Al Quaeda, Iranian Revolutionary guards,
Hamas, the Al Aqsa Martyrs, the 'N'Drangheta, Jaws and Dr. Doom, I managed to survive
without a scratch. I didn't even carry a machine gun. I must lead a charmed life. 

Yet if another attack happens ya'll will be the first ones saying not enough was done and give an example of this program as something that should have been done.

aquart  (1000+ posts)      Fri Apr-25-08 04:18 AM
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10. Why?
 Edited on Fri Apr-25-08 04:20 AM by aquart
I rounded a corner at Penn Station and walked right into one of those guns. So not pleasant.

LIAR

lostnfound  (1000+ posts)       Fri Apr-25-08 04:22 AM
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11. Will they still have time to evaluate permits for air testing?
 How disturbing. Whose brainchild is this I wonder.

  I cdon't think losts has found what was lost

[formerlurker]

Gang members carry semi-automatic weapons, but the NYPD pigs to carry them?  Blasphemy!!

[jukin]

Since my first trip to West Germany in 1980 the police there always had sub-machine guns.  We are just catching up to our oh so superior europeans.

[DixieBelle]

Just shows that DUmmies are, well, DUmmies!!! The last time I went out of the country, I was met by heavily armed soliders and state/local police. (okay, that doesn't sound right!! LOL! I wasn't specifically "met", they were the greeting committee for everyone landing in that particular South American airport)

[Airwolf]

Since my first trip to West Germany in 1980 the police there always had sub-machine guns.  We are just catching up to our oh so superior europeans.

They had them in Italy too. Not just the Military but the Carabinieri as well. They carried the Berretta Model 12 9mm submaching gun and war surplus M-1 carbines sold to Italy at like 10 dollars each under the MAP Program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carabinieri

The reasons they have those weapons was because of all the terrorist attacks that occured during the 60's,70's and the 1980's. In Italy it wasn't that uncommon to be kidnapped and held for ransom untill they either got the cash or they got the cash and killed you anyway. Terrorist called the RED BRIGADE had kidnapped the Deputy Commander of SETAF just before I got orders to go to Italy and just before that they had kidnapped a high ranking Italian anmed Aldo Moro. These idtots over in DU land seem to think they the terrosit theat only came to be during Bush's term in office.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades

[dandi]

Since my first trip to West Germany in 1980 the police there always had sub-machine guns.  We are just catching up to our oh so superior europeans.

The Italian Carabinieri carried SMGs when I was there in '75. I guess the DUmmies should just stay away from Europe, lest they catch the vapors and faint dead away in their first few moments in the Socialist Paradise.

Ah, I see AW beat me to it.