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WHAT?!? The Police Want To Use Assault Vehicles? In America? To Fight 'Terrorists'?

Retired Marine Col. Pete Martino has seen a lot of crazy things in his day, but he hopes a tactical attack vehicle rolling through his neighborhood will not become one of them. At a hearing in New Hampshire, he argues against the acquisition of an armored, eight-ton BearCat tactical vehicle for the police. His quotes about a domestic military and the government being afraid of its own people at 1:25 and 2:36 could be dead-on. What say we use the almost $300,000 for something whose sole purpose isn't to suppress people living in America?

This is the type of BearCat assault vehicle the police would be getting:<br>