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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 01:58 PM
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Preparing children for the coming police state.
With a little New World Order thrown in.



When the 10-wheeler Surveillance Truck is on the scene, you know the police are on the job! Includes two police agent mini-figures.

http://www.lego.com/worldcity/default.asp?prodId=7034
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:02 PM
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1. This is for real
Holy crapola. Next there will be Lego uniformed "interrogators" and "detainees."
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flobee1 Donating Member (515 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:04 PM
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2. Prisioner transport
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:05 PM
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4. This is obscene
These things should be outlawed.
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wtbymark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:13 PM
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6. Prisoner transport with WATERCANNON?
when and on whom are watercannons used?
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:44 PM
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17. Actually, that's an anti-riot microwave device. nt
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fed-up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:19 PM
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10. They left out long hair and the "Peace" sign-this begs photoshopping or
Edited on Fri Feb-17-06 02:21 PM by fed-up
someone can replace his suspect's face with the members of the BFEE
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:43 PM
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16. PM me for a photoshop
I just put "Peace" on the "thug's" t-shirt; no picture dumping spot yet . . .
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:29 PM
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15. Lego website says this model has been "retired".



The item that you searched for has been retired and is no longer sold through LEGO Shop At Home.







Item#: 7034 Surveillance Truck




Ages: 8+

Pieces: 266

Year Introduced: 2003

Keep an eye out for trouble!
When the 10-wheeler Surveillance Truck is on the scene, you know the police are on the job! It comes complete with all the technology to monitor trouble spots, plus a three-wheeler police vehicle to catch criminals on the run. Includes two police agent mini-figures.





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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:05 PM
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3. OMG!!!!
What kind of a nut would consider this a CHILD'S TOY????? The same kind of nut who would let their kid watch police shows that involve surveillance trucks, I guess.

This is very creepy.
:scared:
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NoAmericanTaliban Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:07 PM
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5. Police state isn't coming - it is here now
just a matter of time before we are rounded up as terrorist. First - setup system to combat 'terrorist' - Second - keep changing definition of terrorist to include more & more dissidence & sprinkle in some terrorist acts. Three - round the terrorist up & lock away. Repeat step two, etc. - Look at history for this formula, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Bush, etc.
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:14 PM
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7. Fascism is FUN...
It's fun to survale friends and family! I wanna be the first kid on my block to turn in a thought criminal!
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:52 PM
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18. yeah-next toy rollout: 21Cent America: Benign Dictatorship
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 05:31 PM
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22. Kinder, gentler dictatorship
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Marnieworld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:16 PM
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8. They made a mistake
The faces of the police should be covered. That's always standard operating procedure so they can't be identified when say, they are beating down some protesters and someone has a camera.

What's next children torture toys complete with waterboards and hoods?
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:19 PM
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9. How about a toy library with toy DHS goons spying
on the toy people looking at toy computers?

Or toy goons confiscating the toy Canadian medications from the toy senior citizens?

Or the toy spies wiretapping the toy phones of the toy people?

Or the toy king shredding the toy Constitution on his toy shredder?
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holboz Donating Member (641 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:22 PM
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11. WTF??!!????
I remember having Lego town sets when i was young. yes, there was a police station and a fire station but nothing as dubious and downright scary as this. Look at the bazooka and malicious grimace on the face of that cop.

And calling it "world city"...this is textbook for indoctrination of a new way of thinking. I'll be damned if my daughter will ever have anything to do with this rubbish.
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:24 PM
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12. My little sister had the FP village, which had a jail
It also had a "little people" female cop and a car, among other things like a doctor, a barber, a mailman and mail truck, etc. But nothing about it was scary.
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Jara sang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:25 PM
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13. Check out the dude on the far left.
Big Brother monitoring the monitors.
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neoblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 02:27 PM
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14. What should we teach our children?

What if our Democracy fails? What if they're forced to live under a true police state? What skills would they need. Would we want them to go along in order to survive or seek to resist and restore the nation to Freedom, Laws and Democracy? Would it be most wise to be sure to teach them what America was meant to be? To make sure they know the meaning of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. If we do that alone, they'll never be satisfied living under a totalitarian regime... if that's the case do they need to be able to defend/fight for their beliefs?

Can we afford to assume that such a thing could never happen here? After all, I once thought that an actual Coup d'etat to usurp the proper President of the United States could never happen here. It may have been subtle, done via electronic voting (blackbox voting), cheating (voter disenfranchisement), criminally misleading ballots (butterfly ballots) and malfunctioning punch card voting machines (hanging chads) legal wrangling (to avoid proper recounts) and a partisan Supreme Court (that took the election out of the hands of the people and voted along party lines), but done, it was.

What to do, what to do... If it happened to us, we could, with difficulty determine our own course of action and involvement... We might have to learn many new things and risk our lives in ways we've never imagined outside of watching television or movies... but to decide on orienting the next generations and providing for them the basis for potential resistance is even harder.

In less than nine months, we'll learn alot more about what's going to be our future--but we still haven't even been able to ensure fair elections! Despite the incredible bumbling of the opposing party, we don't seem to be in a competitive position in most places around the country... Yet, if we don't win in more places than we have a right to expect to... the corruption that's taken hold in our government will be all the more firmly entrenched by the 2008 elections. We don't even have access to small fraction of "fair and balanced" coverage in the media--and to win, we're going to need that. So, facing manipulated voting systems, unable to use the available political capital while still unable to even get our message to the people... things are not looking up...

Doom and gloom; but somehow truth will win the day? Somehow? Why are we the eternal optimists? Our faith in our fellow human beings should, by now, be all but destroyed given the abusive, all-out-war like approach to politics and the inestimable damage/harm the other side has already accomplished... Still, we hope. Perhaps it's just that things overall haven't yet gotten bad enough? Not to worry, we can't forestall total economic collapse for too many more years. Suffering is good for the soul (yeah, sure it is)--true or not, it will get people's thinking straightened out somewhat!
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shance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 03:28 PM
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19. This is disturbing. Im sending it to all my friends who are parents.
I hope you will as well.

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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 03:38 PM
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20. Are TASERs included? ........... n/t



:eyes:


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LizW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 03:39 PM
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21. The city I live in just bought a real one of these.
http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/hoover.ssf?/base/community/1139999568207400.xml&coll=2

Last year our city coucnil stripped the schools of almost all local sales tax funding and used that money to buy a bunch of stuff like this for the police department.

:eyes:
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