Photo by Michael Remington and used with his permission

Author: Brian D. Hill

newworldorderreport.com | Source: USWGO Alternative News | How can a country that is at peace, have no civil wars, people are always peaceful when they protest, and the rioters are almost always police being dressed up as violent anarchists to stage a riot during peaceful protests (people like Alex Jones always catch them in the act), use armored tactical vehicles.

Something you usually may only see in Baghdad or Iraq, militarized or tactical armored and weaponized vehicles during riots and wars, has now appeared in Downtown Ventura California. This does go along with the militarization of police across the country. The police don’t trust the American people anymore when they use armored vehicles with weapon firing ports in addition their usual police cruisers.

Even when I was able to go inside several military bases with my grandpa (A veteran) none of them used armored tactical vehicles. Even the military police vehicles which I saw several were only police cruisers.

Michael Remington was the one that discovered that Ventura California police is using militarized vehicles in addition to their normal police cruisers.

Here's the armored vehicle with the words 'Ventura Police' printed on the side.

So why on earth is our local police using armored vehicles instead of regular police cruisers? Do they think Americans are going to shoot them, blow them up, or something? I thought America was a peaceful country where protests are peaceful. Military is not allowed in the United States due to Posse Comitatus Act. Maybe the militarization of our police force is a way to circumvent the Posse Comitatus Act since technically and legally the police aren’t the army.

“The military vehicle was seen downtown Ventura, California, yesterday around 1:30pm. I was parked when it pulled onto the street ahead. It made a left hand turn and left. In the brief moment I managed to take one picture. What caught my eye was that the military vehicle was marked ‘Ventura Police’, Hope it goes viral!.” Mr. Remington told reporter Mr. Brian D. Hill reporter of USWGO Alternative News, FederalJack, We Are Change, and Before It’s News.

In fact later Mr. Remington got more photos of the vehicle inside and outside and sent it to Mr. Hill to send to the three alternative media outlets he works for.

The inside looks hardcore like something out of an action movie.

In fact to view all the images check out the Photos of the Ventura CA Police armored vehicle Image Gallery brought to you by USWGO.

“Notice the large gun turret (geared); and heavy armor plating (1/2”?). They claimed it was a SWAT asset, with no mention of how they procured it through UASI.” Mr. Remington stated in an email with the photos attached that were added into the photo gallery.

Popeye from FederalJack.com, posts on We Are Change, also examined the first photo sent to me and made several comments about it. He stated “That’s what they are doing, local cops are getting armored vehicles. It is the militarization of the local cops, turning them into paramilitary.”

So the local police across the country under the guise of National Security are buying up armored tactical and weapon-capable vehicles through the UASI and will patrol the streets using these hardened vehicles. The large gun turrets means that the police can fire weapons through them at the people outside of the vehicle. UASI is abbreviated for Urban Area Security Initiative. The UASI is a county wide group that is funded by federal dollars.  Their goal is to improve security against domestic and foreign terrorism.  The Bearcat (the vechicle in the photos) is the 3rd in the county to be purchased by UASI funds.  Ventura County Sheriff, Oxnard Police and in July Ventura PD took delivery of the vehicle.

The top section looks like a large machine gun can be mounted at the top where police can fire multiple bullets at suspects with large weapons just like in Good Ole Iraq the war zone. Either a big weapon or a sound cannon since those were used at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.

This is the type of vehicle that may be hitting every local police station in America.

We have yet to receive a comment from the Ventura CA police department and once we do we will write a followup story as to why they are using vehicles that are similar to American army issued vehicles in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Baghdad.

All photos taken by Michael Remington and used with his permission. Licenses have not been applied to these photos so you should contact him before deciding to add to your website.