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2013 Bloomsburg University annual block party gets its first visit ever from an armored Bearcat. At various intervals a man with a helmet pops out of the Bearcat hatch to fire assorted chemical mace cannisters at the red solo cup holding party goers.

The students then mock the military tank assault of the party chanting U-S-A, U-S-A.

The Bearcat used by the Seacoast Emergency response Team (SERT) which is an armored personnel vehicle stationed at the Rye Safety Complex.

According to an Albany City Council member, the Albany Police Department has decided to back out of an agreement with Berkeley Police Department and UCPD to purchase an armored vehicle through a federal grant.

The $170,000 federal grant to purchase a Lenco BearCat will come from the Urban Areas Security Initiative, a Department of Homeland Security nonprofit organization that is intended to financially support agencies that are at high risk of a terrorist attack with “security enhancements.”...

Montgomery County Sheriff's Office was recently bragging about the $300,000 drone that they bought with help from the Department of Homeland Security. They tried to do a fancy photo op featuring the drone and their Bearcat, and crashed one into the other. It's a paramilitary police state on parade.

A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the state Capitol and in the blogosphere.

The Associated Press picture has appeared in any number of venues, and it shows two lawmakers sitting in the back row of the historic Hall of the House in Hartford during the lengthy debate over the two-year, $37 billion state budget.

Police State supporters will be getting off to this one...sick! Since when did our towns become the front lines?

The state unveiled new technology Monday that allows it to virtually inspect big rigs as they cruise down the highway and, if they're found unsafe, flag them for a full evaluation.

Truckers found by the system to have violated safety standards can be fined or have their rigs put out of commission.

"We're going to have our own tank." That's what Keene, N.H., Mayor Kendall Lane whispered to Councilman Mitch Greenwood during a December city council meeting.
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.

He had plenty of shiny law enforcement badges and an arsenal of weapons, but it turns out Daniel Cleary was no cop at all.

Instead, real-life authorities say, he was just a 48-year-old man who took a bad tumble inside his bath tub while apparently intoxicated. The spill led to his arrest on charges of impersonating an FBI agent and for possessing more than two dozen phony federal badges.