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[chopcult]

We are digging @chopperzombie shovelhead. Enjoy the ride! #blackshovels #supportgoodtimes®️ #chopcult #dicemagazine #choppersmagazine #niceguystoughbikes #shovelhead #choppers #highspeedlowdrag https://www.instagram.com/p/CXeqNP3v3FV/?utm_medium=tumblr

[guardian247-blog]

It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. - STAY ON GUARD! ����🇸 #heroism #heroic #patriot #patriotic #america #battle #highspeedlowdrag #moveshootcommunicate #violenceofaction #army #nationalguard #navy #marines #coastguard #airforce #combat #combatvet #deployment #teammate #together #military #militarymuscle #determination #cominginhot #keyhole #volunteer #cops #fighters #firefighter #firstresponders

[yaksnbass]

Time to shed the winter coat. Damn it's hot this year #nomoremanbun #highspeedlowdrag #festerismyhero https://www.instagram.com/p/CDCrOpIAqbG/?igshid=185elp2zrl7zk

[aoimira-soj]

#usmc #soj #marinecorpsbirthday #yut #kill #leanbackatthewaist #oneshotonekill🎯 #highspeedlowdrag #brothersandsistersinarms https://www.instagram.com/p/B4r6F6CAaA9/?igshid=1ai4ttwvpgszs

[thehorsebc]

@thehorsebc #smokeoutrallystampede leader @charliethenomad and his wife @voodoojoose . . . Some of the best people in the world. The Horse wouldn't be what it is now without these two!! #thehorsebackstreetchoppers #thehorsebc #highspeedlowdrag (at The Horse Backstreet Choppers World Headquarters)

[carbon-vudu]

https://carbon-vudu.us/memorial-day-and-the-usmc/

[fapangel]

You don't know shit about body armor and are posting misinformation on Twitter. Ceramic composite plates do not contain steel. Steel armor is not independently tested and certified. For the same price as lvl III steel plates + meme coating + trauma pads you can get standalone lvl IV plates with actual certs. Google Hesco 4401 or RMA 1155

Actually had a long and really interesting conversation with a few people on all that, and I learned all about the current state of the art in body armor and what’s on the civilian market and the plusses and minuses and such. 

I find that when you encounter someone on the internet who shouts NO WRONG they tend to be one of two types: Chill dudes who will respond quite positively if you say “oh I didn’t know, do elaborate I’d like to know more” or ones who will go “LMAO SHUT UP NUBB UR NOT HIGHSPEEDLOWDRAG.” 

When I get the “LMAO UR STUPID SHUTUP” response I default to the second assumption immediately and proceed accordingly because I just don’t fucking care anymore and I’m happy to tune people out at the drop of a hat, if not mute them outright. Because even if they’re 100% correct, I’m not going to learn shit from them anyways. 

But when you get that dude who goes ACTSHUALLY, THAT’S the guy to listen to, because he’ll give you all the deets. 

[timothyeddington]

High Speed Low Drag #highspeedlowdrag #blueangels #pensacolabeach #pensacolaairshow #blueangelsairshow #pensacolaairshow2018 #needforspeed #legacyplaymaker #legacyphotographyllc #legacyphotographyllcshreveport #followbackteam #instagood #instaclassic #screamingfast #afterburner #flyby #flybye #pensacolaflorida #pensacolabeachflorida (at Pensacola Beach, Florida)

[decluitt]

Some time ago, The Wife commented that I should grow out my hair after quite a long time. I made it just over a month before I had to return to my natural state. #bald #highspeedlowdrag (at Chateau des Enfants Criards)

[tornadodefensellc]

New Yankz laces for the Solomon speedcross ... #Solomon #speedcross #ladies #shoes #run #highspeedlowdrag #yankz

[welding-atlanta-blog]

Travel Light go far. My custom neck gator. Used primarily when I was at #Yamaha doing mass production. . . . . #Fancy #Welder #Welding #Fasion #HighSpeedLowDrag #PopThatCollar

[exoticregistry-blog]

Repost from @juanjohnnyrico #exoticregistry #dieepic ・ ・ ・ Too much power and speed for one picture. #Bugatti #BelgianMalinois #Veyron #BugattiVeyron #RodeoDrive #RodeoDr #BeverlyHills #90210 #supercar #workingdog #workingdogsofig #rexspecs #dogtra #dogsofig #dogsofinstagram #dogsoflosangeles #dogsofbeverlyhills #Malinois #malinoisofig #instamalinois #iwokeupinanewbugatti #livefast #highspeedlowdrag #operatorasfuck #furmissile #k9 #maligator #hypercar #california #losangeles @workingdogsofig @rexspecsk9 @houseofbijan

[oplionclaws]

How high speed is YOUR SIX-MAN Team? #tactic_world #tacticalchallenges #lionclawstacticalchallenge2017 #airsoftteams #highspeedlowdrag #highspeedairsoft #tactic_world #usa_airsoft_community #airsoftusa #airsoftgermany #airsoftmedia #airsoftday #arniesairsoft #teambuilding #teamwork

[fapangel]

President Trump is about to lift the Obama error ban on allowing the Police to getting and using military grade equipment and weapons. Is this a good thing or bad in your thoughts on this?

It’s good, because “militarization of police” has absolutely nothing to do with the equipment they use, because the difference between military and police is all about training, not toys. 

We’ve a ready example in the Chris Dorner manhunt, where a single ex-military man with a rifle drove the Los Angeles Police Department insane with terror. The LAPD were so terrified of this one man with a rifle that on two separate occasions they mag-dumped on civilians in pickup trucks that were the wrong model and color to be the suspect’s vehicle. One man was rammed off the road before LAPD officers riddled his vehicle with bullets, and two little old Hispanic ladies, who were driving away from the cops when the LAPD lit them up with over a hundred rounds.

The attacks that rattled the LAPD so badly that they were blowing away any civilian in a pickup truck that got within a hundred yards of them were described by Dorner himself as “unconventional asymmetric warfare,” (and indeed were.) For the military, which has been fighting urban/rural insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan for 16 years now, that’s also known as “Tuesday afternoon.” Soldiers operating road checkpoints have established procedures for flagging down vehicles, and when they open fire, they actually stop the vehicle and kill the occupants with swift and lethal efficiency. Few incidents illustrate the vast discrepency between trained military soldiers and police officers better than the Dorner incident, but the many errors of the fabled FBI raid on the Waco compound, where the Feds had all the time in the world to bring in specialized “shooters,” equipment and lay plans for an orchestrated assault, and managed to get four FBI agents - and every noncombatant in the compound - killed anyways is a close second. The cavalcade of planning fuckups in that raid are heartbreaking to read. There is absolutely no comparing civilian law enforcement and actual soldiers - which is often seen in reverse when governments try to use soldiers as police in various overseas “peacekeeping” operations. The military has their own dedicated branch of military police for a very, very good reason. 

Equipment vs. Mindset

A few years back MuckRock got tons of data via FOIA request on what equipment was distributed to which states - go ahead and look up your own state, if you’d like. The sample data in the MuckRock article (for Missouri) matches what I found for my own state - namely, the vast majority of things local PDs buy is the kind of stuff you buy at your local military surplus store - clothing, supplies and various odds-and-ends, not advanced electronics or weapons. Adverse-weather gear, magazine pouches, clothes, kneepads, scope rings, scope mounts, even filing cabinets make up the vast bulk of it. This shouldn’t be a surprise - most of what any Police Department spends is on boring essentials like these. They already have guns, because Law Enforcement has always had access to the same vendors that supply the military. All they get from this program is a bargain. 

And what a bargain. A tremendous amount of caterwauling and hand-wringing was done over local PDs buying surplus MRAPs, but police departments have always had armored personnel carriers - they’re called SWAT tanks. A SWAT Tank has exactly one job - to drive a bunch of highspeedlowdragoperatorz from the “road” end of the driveway up to the house housing the “barricaded gunman.” Traditionally you have two options for buying these - pay a specialized company to up-armor an existing commercial vehicle, which is very expensive (this Nat. Geo documentary shows the process in detail,) or buy an actual military APC that’s also offered in disarmed “law enforcement” models from a major arms manufacturer (even more expensive.) The MRAPs, however, are worn-out from service in Iraq and Afghanistan (which is why Iraq got so many of them free; they weren’t worth the cost to ship home,) and the military is eager to be rid of the rest, as they’re useless for anything outside of their specialized role and all the armor makes them a maintenance hog. Local PDs, however, are going to leave them in a garage most of the year, and these vehicles come with stuff like built-in night vision that would cost your average PD more to buy alone than they’re paying for the entire vehicle. 

This applies to everything else available through the program. Police have always used grenade launchers of any kind employed by the military for deploying tear gas grenades, they’ve always been able to buy select-fire/fully automatic rifles and submachine guns, (many, like select-fire variants of Ruger’s Mini-14, were built and marketed specifically to Law Enforcement markets,) and of course most police wear body armor. PD’s have always been able to buy pretty much any weapon of mayhem or destruction they can justify, with the only limit being the budget - and many PDs have long had a penchant for buying fancy toys that spend most of their time collecting dust in an armory. 

The problem has nothing to do with equipment. Consider this picture of police officers from the Ferguson riots, helpfully labeled by Business Insider (fullres here:)

There’s only one piece of equipment in this photo that police rarely, if ever, have used in decades past. Not the short-barreled rifle - they’ve always had those, especially SWAT teams. Not the mag pouches - every cop has two of them on their duty belt. Kevlar helmets are standard-issue riot gear, and so are gas-masks, (for protection from their own tear-gas.) That’s all the same old shit.

The problem is the camouflage uniforms. 

Of everything in this picture, it’s the MARPAT camouflage that is completely useless for police officers standing on an urban street. Not only is there no woods to hide in, but the aim of a police officer, especially deployed for riot duty, is to be visible. Police uniforms are a visible symbol of their status as enforcers of law and order. These officers lined up outside of the Ferguson PD are a great example of riot gear combined with the visible uniform presence, with the man closest to the camera displaying the usual “uniform” of either SWAT or riot control - a simple single-color black outfit with patches on it. This Minneapolis Police statement concerning SWAT uniform color changes illustrates why - dark uniforms don’t blend into urban environments any better than anything else, but they do make the presence of body armor (almost always black-covered) less obvious to anyone that might be shooting at them. And even then, their vests say POLICE on them in Big White Letters. 

A reminder - SWAT teams are specialized shooters; armed and armored for full-on firefights - and even they subordinate tactical effectiveness of their outfits to some degree to maintain the symbols identifying them as enforcers of law and order. Even if they didn’t, they’d use purpose-made urban camouflage, not milsup MARPAT that does nothing (to say nothing of those coyote-brown combat boots.) 

That MARPAT camo is the visible symptom of the real problem - these police are playing as soldiers, which they’re most certainly not. The camo doesn’t just complete the “image” of a high-speed-low-drag-OPERATOR, it also works against the image of Enforcer Of Law And Order which has always been an integral part of how police keep the peace; by emphasizing their presence as a deterrent to would-be crime. Even riot control ops rely on this; the image of a uniform line of black-clad cops beating their batons on their shields like an advancing shield-wall of ancient warriors is potent and intimidating. Abandoning that image to drape themselves in military garb is the one tangible, equipment-related signifier of their shift in mentality. Even the uniforms would’ve meant nothing had the Ferguson PD not acted the way they did; running around in gaggles vaguely resembling “fire teams,” pointing rifles everywhere like kids playing soldier, rather than comporting themselves as riot control officers always have (with specific tactics, weapons and equipment meant for the job.) 

Hyperventilating over “military equipment” is a folly exclusive to people utterly ignorant of firearms and the distinctions (or rather, lack thereof) between them, and Obama’s cancellation of the program only shut off a cheaper source of vital mundane equipment needed by every department, and of serviceable SWAT rifles for the many, many small PDs that are trying to up-gun for possible response to active-shooter terrorist attacks with limited small-town budgets.

Mentality

Years ago, one of my family members was a beat cop in a local city PD. Whilst milling around outside of another Suspected Barricaded Gunman call, one of the SWAT team members scuttled over to a mud puddle in a pothole, dipped his fingers in, and started smearing his face with mud, for face camo. The nearby rubbernecker’s gaggle, observing this display on a balmy summer afternoon with nary a cloud in the sky, stared in silence before turning their baffled, questioning gazes, as one, onto my relative. 

He could only sigh, shrug, and say “Uh… they don’t get out much.” 

The urge to play Soldier is nothing new - just check out an airsoft event sometime if you doubt me - but the Dorner manhunt and the Waco mess exemplify the disasters that ensue when police officers mistakenly think they’re capable of doing a soldier’s job, or that police situations should be approached like they’re soldiers jobs. Arguing about where the police buy the same equipment they’ve always used will simply obfuscate the source of the problem, rather than solving it. 

Sheriffs are elected officials. If you don’t know who’s running your PD - and how - you should educate yourself. The power is in our hands - it’s about time we used it. 

[masangelicmusic]

The very definition of #cando #geitdone #excellence #skillful #overcoming #blessed #practicemakesperfect #upperechelon #topquality #highcaliber #highspeedlowdrag #spuddwebb #mugseybogues two of the best to ever play the game.#salute https://ift.tt/2A38mPV

[stellina-4ever]

carrinoanthony: #LifeRide8 Day 1: We rode from Minniapolis MN to La Crosse WI, the store events were incredible. So many people coming out to support the cause, and all of your ❤️ pics are fantastic...keep'em coming! We ride for Lake Geneva today. #TheCureIsInOurHands PC: @travis_shinn [x]

lukewessman: Kwik stop, long trip. These gas station stops are gold just like this crew. @jeremydangerpictures@tylerposey58 @highspeedlowdrag 📸 @carrinoanthony #liferide8 #clique#roadtrip [x]

carrinoanthony: #LifeRide8 Day 2: La Crosse, WI to Lake Geneva, WI Perfect 10 as far as riding days go. No humidity, plenty of twisties and a great crew riding for an important cause. Thanks for staying with me through this journey, and please make sure to post your heart photos and tag them with @kiehls@amfar & #LifeRide8#TheCureIsInOurHands 🙏🏼 Last photo of me credit to @duffya76 @gopro [x]

highspeedlowdrag: Liferide8 taking a kwikstop... @lukewessman @tylerposey58@jeremydangerpictures all these cats are solid dudes and solid riders...#LifeRide8#thecureisinourhands #amfAR [x]