Do Not Resist Page #2

And so now every time we get

new guys, we call them pups,

we call them "SWAT pups,"

and I'm always watching them.

The first time they

go on a search warrant,

they're on the outside of the vehicles,

I always look for them

and they're always just

smiling ear to ear.

They just feel like they're

on the top of the world.

Get in there! Get in there!

Good job, guys.

Obviously, we

don't have it as bad over here

as they do in Iraq or Afghanistan

but we come across threats too that

military training's gonna help.

All the things we have the M4 rifles

and the armored trucks we have,

we have 'cause something in the States

has happened that has

warranted that for us.

This is a diversionary device.

One, two, three!

For the land of the free

And the home of the

Brave

Please help me welcome

the director of the Federal

Bureau of Investigation,

Director Comey, a real friend

of law enforcement.

While our officers are facing an

increasingly dangerous environment,

we are seeing a growing debate about

so-called "warrior cops,"

a term that I've heard and the

militarization of police.

I think it's very important

to remind our fellow citizens

that we all tell a lie to our children.

I have five children, and all five of

them have woken up during the night,

afraid of monsters.

And so I have lied to them,

and I've told them that

monsters aren't real.

"Go back to sleep.

Monsters aren't real."

Monsters are real.

Monsters are barricaded

inside apartments

waiting for law enforcement to respond

so they can fire rounds that

will pierce a ballistic vest.

Because of that reality,

because monsters are real,

we need a range of weapons

and equipment to respond

and protect our fellow citizens

and protect ourselves.

It is all the more important that we,

as people who are responsible

for securing this country,

remain tightly connected to each other.

And I thank you

for your commitment to our

joint terrorism task forces

and to the fusion centers,

which are the embodiment

of that cooperation.

That is the way we stay responsive

to a metastasizing and changing threat.

You don't need this.

You really don't.

I was a colonel... I'm a retired

colonel in the Marine Corps.

I saw a sign back there that said,

"We want more Mayberry

and less Fallujah."

And I spent a year in Fallujah.

The way we do things in the military

is called "task organization."

You take a command and then

you attach units to it

in order to accomplish the mission.

What's happening is we're

building a domestic military

because it's unlawful, unconstitutional

to use American troops on American soil.

So I don't know where we're gonna use

this many vehicles and this many troops.

Concord is just one

little cog in the wheel.

We're building an army over here and I can't

believe that people aren't seeing it.

- My wife always told my kids...

- Thank you very much.

...there's always free cheese

in the mousetrap.

I understand that the police

officers run toward danger,

and that is an admirable thing,

but we need to put things

into perspective.

This is from the federal government's

National Safety Council.

Your chances of dying

from a terrorist attack

are one in 20 million.

So we need to put the brakes on the fear

and we need to act rationally.

Terrorism works because

it makes people irrational,

and it makes them destroy themselves.

- That's what's happening.

- Thank you very much.

If you had told me 20 years ago

when I was serving my country

and defending it

against the Soviet Union,

that someday we would have

armored personnel carriers

used to roam the streets

of Concord, New Hampshire,

I would have told you,

you were a raving lunatic.

Because that sort of thing

doesn't happen here in America,

where people are free

and we have a government

that is a government of,

by and for the people.

So the idea that we should have that,

just because it's free money.

It's not free money,

It's all of our money,

and it's more than just all

of our money, it's debt.

You know, and debt is a form of slavery.

The more this country goes into debt,

the heavier the chains on all of us.

I will say that

I intend to vote in favor

of accepting, um, the federal

money to purchase a Bearcat.

- Counselor Blanchard.

- Yes.

- Counselor Dililacona.

- Yes.

- Counselor Grady Sexton.

- Yes.

- Counselor Patton.

- No.

- Counselor Sheech.

- Yes.

Motion's adopted, 11 to 4.

These are coming back from overseas.

Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan,

trains come in daily.

They're coming back to be demilitarized,

put away or sold as foreign sales.

They're evaluated

and then they issue them

to the law enforcement.

They supposedly have been cleared.

You shouldn't find any

human anatomy in there.

They pretty well purge them out.

But unfortunately,

it still gets through.

You'll find it every once in a while.

There's no way around it.

War is war.

The big thing is to teach them how to

maneuver the truck to prevent the rollovers.

Unfortunately, we never

train the law enforcement,

so they're kind of out

there on their own.

This is an MRAP vehicle we

acquired through the 1033 program.

The 1033 program is a government

program that funnels military property

that is no longer used

to local law enforcement.

I haven't driven this one yet,

so this will be my first drive.

Oopsie.

This is Lieutenant Tony, he

handles the 1033 program for me,

and usually what happens

with the 1033 program,

they'll put the available

equipment on the site,

so you keep checking the site repeatedly

to see if any of that equipment there

would benefit your

agency or your county.

So we may not be looking for nothing,

but we might see something on there

tomorrow that "Oh we could use that."

I think the main place

we would use this vehicle

is in incidents where the public is being

threatened with the use of a firearm

or any time we do a drug search warrant.

Often times those

are no-knock warrants

and we use the tactical

team for those entries

and we would respond with this

vehicle in those situations as well.

How did we ever get to the

point where we think states need MRAP's?

Tell me, how do they decide

if an MRAP's appropriate

for a community of my

hometown, 35,000 people?

An MRAP is a truck, Senator, with...

No, it's not a truck, it's a

48,000-pound offensive weapon.

It is not an offensive weapon, Senator.

It can be used as an offensive weapon.

When we give an MRAP, it does

not have a 50-caliber weapon on it.

It's not an offensive weapon.

It is a protective vehicle.

In Dr. Coburn's state, the

Payne City sheriff's office

has one full-time

sworn officer,

one.

They've gotten two MRAP's since 2011.

How in the world can anyone say

that this program has

one lick of oversight

if those two things are in existence?

The rule of thumb is

one MRAP for a police department

that requests an MRAP.

No more than one.

So I'd have to look at the incident

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