I guess 2500.00 is a lot of money to some, not to me, but then I'm from Mass and make the kind of money others in less fortuitist states just think about.
Well golly, when the per capita income of the rest of the United States is only some 1500 dollars a year we’ll just have to take your word for it. Wow, being a private dick affords the ability to be a public one too! Who knew?
We have the best hospitals in the world, the best higher education in the world, and a few others things that others can't access but here in this state.
Yep, ya got me der boss. Dares no institut–er–book lernin’ place outside o’ Mass dat rivals dat whats found dare.
There is good and bad to every states position within the union.
And when one is not one of the privileged few with a Massachusetts Class A firearms license, and finds himself in Massachusetts, undoubtedly one is in one of the worst positions within the union.
Oh, we are target rich, thats why all the moneyed get to Bostons doctors when they have the choice.
Yep, UCSF, University of Washington Medical Center, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota all have no appeal whatsoever.
When was the last time a swat team was needed in podunk, USA? They have the same equipment and have never been called out. They cost the taxpayers good money for their equipment and training, never been called to Marthas house with a hostage situation, but hey they might be one day and they best be prepared.
I don’t know exactly where Podunk is, but most of them bought their unused toys with asset forfeiture. Oregon, for one, has had the good sense to require actual criminal conviction prior to an asset forfeiture being launched, as it should be. However, all of this is a side issue. What is or is not going on in Podunk is tertiary, what the MassPort force requires suppressed German subguns for is the issue. One inescapable fact is that before the Iwannacoolgun virus struck hard and the paramilitarization of the police began in Los Angeles following the Watts riots, much simpler hardware carried the day even against the Tommy Gun equipped John Dillingers of the world.
Actually Masport and the Mass state police have a very rich environment where potential is a consideration. I would think less so for other cities not on a coastline in the middle of the bible belt and corn fields.
I happen to live on that “other†coast, with some of the busiest ports in the world, where potentialities are not met obliquely through the purchase of German subguns for the most tortured of reasons.
Besides, I wasn't aware you were involved with their intelligence units and the hot line to the white house that been hooked up to the gov's office here. Several govs just got them, not all mind you but only a few, Mass. being one of those.
Didn’t take long for the appeal to authority to appear. You wouldn’t happen to be talking about the “intelligence units†that missed only the most deadly terrorist attack ever mounted would you? I am also sure any politico with a life appointed troglodyte in the US Senate can get a hot line to a self-important governor in the name of homeland security these days.
You don't suppose they may know something you don't do you? When the last time you were involved in coordinating their intel from other countries and privy to their needs?
I must have missed the international consulting agreements that MassPort struck up with the rest of the Western intelligence community–sorry.
I suggest without that unless you have that position you are not really in any position to determine what the states international airport needs. I don't think you could even guess what they have for intel. Or do you think you'll be reading their morning briefings in the next days paper keeping you up to speed with the latest potential threats to the ariport, Boston, and the state.
Of course you would suggest that. Unless one were in a position to consult, “Hey you guys should get some silenced machineguns with that pot of federal money out there.†one would be ignored. I can guess what the CIA’s Massachusetts Field Office has for intel to give MassPort–SQUAT. Anyone can point to a historical record of machine gun wielding terrorists attacking airports in Europe over the past few decades and tell some doughnut eaters that it could happen to them.
You see how you want to bash them for their actions without any understanding of their projected needs? Shows some real intelligence on your part to be second guessing something you know nothing about. Care to make another uneducated guess or unintelligent remark about something you know nothing about?
Yep. I will bash them for their projected needs because those needs, as articulated by one of their own representatives in the press, are high smelling crapola. I can state in all confidence that I know as much about fighting terrorists in an airport with the fear of muzzle flashes setting off jet fuel fires as MassPort does–not one darn thing–their sole advantage over me is the ability to waste taxpayers’ money after having an executive level fantasy about their potential gun battles.
Since when do we hold our forces responsible for their actions. Who knows how they will come at us again, are you saying we should be able to control something they do before they do it.
No, I am only saying that if they want a silent gun battle, both sides would necessarily have to be using silencers to avoid panicking the sheeple.
We can control our actions, not theirs.
When you are only half the equation, you don’t control the situation at all at the outset.
To state a question like that shows me what? Probably that you were trying to make your point about something you are in all liklihood unintelligent about.
Just pointing out an obvious hole in their non-existent logic for buying silenced MGs. What I know is that the MassPort rationale for their toy purchase sounds unintelligent.
Why don't the swat teams buy domestic all across the board in the US? After all, lets keep it domestic and save the money at the same time? Guess what there sir, they use the best tool for the job and I'm sure if you had the position they had you would want the best money could buy as well to save you bacon and that of civilians.
Best tool? When it all boils down, it is a subjective choice as to what is the best tool. There was no T&E in the MP5SD choice, just at least two tailor-made tactical fantasies that the MP5SD fit the bill for.
Unless you are telling me you arm yourself by price of the hardware alone, you do the same thing. Most buy the best they can afford, if they have any brains at all.
If they were paying their own way you’d have a mighty fine point there. However, the money is not theirs, it’s ours. As it is public money being spent they should have cost effectiveness and domesticity in mind. By your logic, cop cruisers at MassPort should all be BMW 750il sedans, with a job effective re-upholstery of course. I smell some mighty strong BS in “let’s buy the most expensive tool capable of getting the job done†position you are advocating for public funds.
Perhaps we should have 007 carrying a jennings .25 in lieu of a walther ppk. I think "M" would be able to save a lot of money by not issuing James all those expensive gadgets he has when he could make due with less [ at the risk of his own life ]. After all, like you, he is not the one putting himself in harms way so who cares. Great attitude and thought process, gotta love the "good old boys"
Even if the choice in police small arms isn’t as stark as your contrast between Jennings and Walther, James Bond has as much CQB experience as the MassPort cops at Logan do I would wager. Since Bond is fictitious, that experience would of course be none at all. With all of the fiction surrounding the decision by MassPort to acquire their German toys I am forced to conclude that somehow Michael Moore got a consulting contract with them.
(MM to MassPort Officials: "You'll look really intimidating with these guns. I did Airsoft mock-ups with my staff and also ruled out getting the costumer from
Robocop to make you look more sinister. We'll just go with the tried and true method of getting you submachineguns like they tote in Europe--they were very intimidating at Heathrow when I was there recently--if one ignores their silly hats.)
