Lions and Tigers and BearCats, Oh My!

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Seems the BearCat armored personel carrier / thing is drawing some resistance over in NH:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

It’s not quite a tank. But the quaint town of 23,000 — scene of just two murders since 1999 — had just accepted a $285,933 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to purchase a Bearcat, an eight-ton armored personnel vehicle made by Lenco Industries Inc.

But those plans are on hold for now, thanks to a backlash from feisty residents.

Wish VT could have been out front on this and forced the VT State Police to let the Feds keep their $$. (but I do wonder if the VT Bearcat has the little piggy graphic…)

Scroll to the end and watch the promotional video… its scary / sad that this is where we are headed.  

4 thoughts on “Lions and Tigers and BearCats, Oh My!”

  1. War industries must find a market during the “lull” that’s created when we only have one war going full blast, and Pentagon orders are down.  

  2. Who could have predicted such a hard-sell fear based pitch from the tank company.

    “I don’t think there’s any place in the country where you can say, ‘That isn’t a likely terrorist target,'””How would you know? We don’t know what the terrorists are thinking. No one predicted that terrorists would take over airplanes on Sept. 11. If a group of terrorists decide to shoot up a shopping mall in a town like Keene, wouldn’t you rather be prepared?”

    Jim Massery, the government sales manager for Pittsfield, Mass.-based Lenco

    He’s gotta be on commission.Feel the fear!

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

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