"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Armed Officers Police New York Train Stations
Submitted by Bradley Keyes on Fri, 2012-12-28 00:00
This is two years old, but I had never seen these pictures. They call them cops, but they sure look like the military to me.
"Hundreds of cops flooded Penn Station, Grand Central and Herald Square this morning in a post-Moscow drill to see how prepared law enforcement is for a terrorist attack on the city's subways and commuter trains."
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