Serve and Protect with the Peacemaker
The Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff’s Department (that’s them above) just obtained an armored personnel carrier, complete with a belt-fed, .50-cal turreted machine gun. Sheriff Leon Lott has charmingly named the vehicle “The Peacemaker,” and insists that using a caliber of ammunition that even the U.S. military is reluctant to use against human targets (it’s generally reserved for use against armored vehicles) will “save lives.”
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Like most of these military toys obtained by local police departments, the Peacemaker will inevitably be used on drug and gambling raids—that is, to enforce laws against consensual activities. Or, as we’re now seeing in Minnesota, perhaps on raids against leftist political activists.
Umm what exactly can I say to this, I could come up with something cliched like “Only in the US” but I think that everyone has become used to the fact that appears to be hiding behind a collective intelligence that only a privileged few have access to. Oh and in my experience the ‘chosen ones’ don’t appear to be in the US they are all over here in Europe.
Who on earth do these boys think they are going to be arresting, I just don’t understand how an apparent pioneer of world peace can think it needs to treat its own people in this way?
