fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: October 27, 2012 11:13PM
" In March DHS ordered 750 million rounds of hollow point ammunition. It
then turned around and ordered an additional 750 million rounds of miscellaneous
bullets including some that are capable of penetrating walls. This is enough
ammunition to empty five rounds into the body of every living American citizen.
Is th
is something we and the Congress should be concerned about? What’s the plan
that requires so many dead Americans, even during times of civil
unrest?"
The Social Security Administration (SSA) confirms that it is purchasing 174
thousand rounds of hollow point bullets to be delivered to 41 locations in major
cities across the U.S. No one has yet said what the purpose of these purchases
is, though we are led to believe that they will be used only in an emergency to
counteract and control civil unrest. Those against whom the hollow point bullets
are to be used — those causing the civil unrest — must be American citizens;
since the SSA has never been used overseas to help foreign countries maintain
control of their citizens.
What would be the target of these 174, 000 rounds of hollow point bullets? It
can’t simply be to control demonstrators or rioters. Hollow point bullets are
so lethal that the Geneva Convention does not allow their use on the battle
field in time of war. Hollow point bullets don’t just stop or hurt people,
they penetrate the body, spread out, fragment and cause maximum damage to the
body’s organs. Death often follows.
Potentially each hollow nose bullet represents a dead American. If so, why would
the U.S. government want the SSA to kill 174,000 of our citizens, even during a
time of civil unrest? Or is the purpose to kill 174,000 of the nation’s
military and replace them with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) special
security forces, forces loyal to the Administration, not to the
Constitution?
All my life I’ve handled firearms. When a young boy growing up on my
father’s farm in Pennsylvania Dad’s first rule of firearms training was,
“Never point a gun at someone, in fun or otherwise, unless you intend to shoot
them. If you shoot someone, shoot to kill.” I’ve never forgotten his
admonition. It stayed with me through my Boy Scout training, when I enlisted in
the army as a Private to fight in the Korea
War, during my days as a Ranger and Paratrooper and throughout my thirty-four
year military career.
If this were only a one time order of ammunition, it could easily be dismissed.
But there is a pattern here. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) has ordered 46,000 rounds of hollow point ammunition. Notice that all of
these purchases are for the lethal hollow nose bullets. These bullets are not
being purchased and stored for squirrel or coyote hunting. This is serious
ammunition manufactured to be used for serious purposes.
In the war in Iraq, our military forces expended approximately 70 million rounds
per year. In March DHS ordered 750 million rounds of hollow point ammunition. It
then turned around and ordered an additional 750 million rounds of miscellaneous
bullets including some that are capable of penetrating walls. This is enough
ammunition to empty five rounds into the body of every living American citizen.
Is this something we and the Congress should be concerned about? What’s the
plan that requires so many dead Americans, even during times of civil unrest?
Has Congress and the Administration vetted the plan in public.
I fear that Congress won’t take these ammunition purchases seriously until
they are all led from Capitol Hill in handcuffs. Why buy all this ammunition
unless you plan to use it. Unknown to Congress, Does DHS plan to declare war on
some country? Shouldn’t Congress hold hearings on why the Administration is
stockpiling this ammunition all across the nation? How will it be used; what are
the Administration’s plans?
Obama is a deadly serious, persistent man. Once he focuses on an object, he
pursues it to the end. What is his focus here? All of these rounds of ammunition
can only be used to kill American citizens, though there is enough ammunition
being ordered to kill, in addition to every American citizen, also every
Iranian, Syrian or Mexican. There is simply too much of it. And this much
ammunition can’t be just for training, there aren’t that many weapons and
“shooters” in the U.S. to fire it. Perhaps it is to be used to arm illegal
immigrants?
We have enough military forces to maintain law and order in the U.S. even during
times of civil unrest.
We have local police, backed up by each state’s National Guard, backed up by
the Department of Defense. So in addition to all these forces why does DHS need
its own private army? Why do the SSA, NOAA and other government agencies need to
create their own civilian security forces armed with hollow nose bullets?
Were I the JCS, and if I wasn’t already fully briefed on this matter, I’d
stop the purchase of hollow point bullets, ask the secretary of Defense why all
this ammunition is being purchased and spread around the country? If I got
answers like the ones Congress got during the investigation of Operation Fast
and Furious – I’d start tracking all ammunition deliveries nationwide to
find out what organizations and units are using them, for what purpose and, if
it is not constitutional, prepare to counteract whatever it is that they are
doing.
This is a deadly serious business. I hope I’m wrong, but something smells
rotten. And If the Congress isn’t going to do its duty and investigate this
matter fully, the military will have to protect the Constitution, the nation,
and our citizens.
Jerry Curry is a decorated combat veteran, Army Aviator, Paratrooper, and
Ranger, who for nearly forty years has served his country both in the military
and as a Presidential political appointee.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: October 28, 2012 10:04AM
For conspiracy theories this one is out there a bit. Maybe they are getting
ready for the alien invasion.
fossil_digger Report This Comment Date: October 28, 2012 02:58PM
if you could shoot them, there would be excursions going out of south Texas
every hour on the hour cheap cheap.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: October 29, 2012 10:58AM
Not just Texas everywhere else would have volunteers as well.
As for ammunition it just makes good sense to have plenty of it for every gun
owned. I have 400 rounds for my pistol with plans to buy more.