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Turning America into a Battlefield: A Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation

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Why is the Pentagon continuing to purchase mass amounts of ammunition while at the same time preparing to destroy more than $1 billion worth of bullets and missiles that are still viable?

Given the similarities between the government's Live Active Shooter Drill training exercises, which can and do fool law enforcement officials and bystanders into thinking it's a real crisis, how much of what is being passed off as real is, in fact, being staged by DHS for the "benefit" of training law enforcement, leaving us none the wiser?

Why is the DHS giving away millions of dollars' worth of federal security grants to states that federal intelligence agencies ruled have "no specific foreign or domestic terrorism threat"?

Why is the government, without warrant or search order, amassing names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation, and what criteria is the government using for this database? It's been suggested that this Main Core database could be used by military officials to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security, a program to be carried about by the Army and FEMA.

Taken individually, these questions are alarming enough. But when viewed collectively, they leave one wondering what exactly the U.S. government is preparing for and whether American citizens shouldn't be preparing, as well, for that eventuality when our so-called "government of the people, by the people, for the people" is no longer answerable to "we the people."

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