Sunday, February 24, 2013

Articles: Clearing Away the Rubble...with Black Hawks, Tanks, and Loads of Ammo

 

The Army took over an empty high school in southeast Houston without warning last month in a Department of Defense drill.  Terrified residents mistook blank fire for live rounds.  At a City Council meeting the next day, Mayor Annise Parker decried "a shocking lack of sensitivity to community concerns" that caught even some in the police department by surprise.  About the same time council members were meeting in Houston, "federal law enforcement" agents were rappelling down ropes from military helicopters hovering over the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Articles: Clearing Away the Rubble...with Black Hawks, Tanks, and Loads of Ammo

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