By Major General Jerry Curry, USA (Ret.)
The Social Security Administration (SSA)
confirms that it is purchasing 174 thousand rounds of hollow point bullets to
be delivered to 41 locations in major cities across the U.S. No one has
yet said what the purpose of these purchases is, though we are led to believe
that they will be used only in an emergency to counteract and control civil
unrest. Those against whom the hollow point bullets are to be used — those
causing the civil unrest — must be American citizens; since the SSA has never
been used overseas to help foreign countries maintain control of their
citizens.
What would be the target of these 174, 000
rounds of hollow point bullets? It can’t simply be to control demonstrators or
rioters. Hollow point bullets are so lethal that the Geneva Convention does not
allow their use on the battle field in time of war. Hollow point bullets don’t
just stop or hurt people, they penetrate the body, spread out, fragment and
cause maximum damage to the body’s organs. Death often follows.
Potentially each hollow nose bullet represents a
dead American. If so, why would the U.S. government want the SSA to kill
174,000 of our citizens, even during a time of civil unrest? Or is the purpose
to kill 174,000 of the nation’s military and replace them with Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) special security forces, forces loyal to the Administration, not
to the Constitution?
All my life I’ve handled firearms. When a young
boy growing up on my father’s farm in Pennsylvania Dad’s first rule of firearms
training was, “Never point a gun at someone, in fun or otherwise, unless you
intend to shoot them. If you shoot someone, shoot to kill.” I’ve never
forgotten his admonition. It stayed with me through my Boy Scout training, when
I enlisted in the army as a Private to fight in the Korea
War, during my days as a Ranger and Paratrooper and throughout my thirty-four year military career.
War, during my days as a Ranger and Paratrooper and throughout my thirty-four year military career.
If this were only a one time order of
ammunition, it could easily be dismissed. But there is a pattern here. The
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has ordered 46,000
rounds of hollow point ammunition. Notice that all of these purchases are for
the lethal hollow nose bullets. These bullets are not being purchased and
stored for squirrel or coyote hunting. This is serious ammunition manufactured
to be used for serious purposes.
In the war in Iraq, our military forces expended
approximately 70 million rounds per year. In March DHS ordered 750 million
rounds of hollow point ammunition. It then turned around and ordered an
additional 750 million rounds of miscellaneous bullets including some that are
capable of penetrating walls. This is enough ammunition to empty five rounds
into the body of every living American citizen. Is this something we and the
Congress should be concerned about? What’s the plan that requires so many dead
Americans, even during times of civil unrest? Has Congress and the
Administration vetted the plan in public.
I fear that Congress won’t take these ammunition
purchases seriously until they are all led from Capitol Hill in handcuffs. Why
buy all this ammunition unless you plan to use it. Unknown to Congress, Does
DHS plan to declare war on some country? Shouldn’t Congress hold hearings on
why the Administration is stockpiling this ammunition all across the nation?
How will it be used; what are the Administration’s plans?
Obama is a deadly serious, persistent man. Once
he focuses on an object, he pursues it to the end. What is his focus here? All
of these rounds of ammunition can only be used to kill American citizens,
though there is enough ammunition being ordered to kill, in addition to every
American citizen, also every Iranian, Syrian or Mexican. There is simply too
much of it. And this much ammunition can’t be just for training, there aren’t
that many weapons and “shooters” in the U.S. to fire it. Perhaps it is to be
used to arm illegal immigrants?
We have enough military forces to maintain law
and order in the U.S. even during times of civil unrest.
We have local police, backed up by each state’s
National Guard, backed up by the Department of Defense. So in addition to all
these forces why does DHS need its own private army? Why do the SSA, NOAA and
other government agencies need to create their own civilian security forces
armed with hollow nose bullets?
Were I the JCS, and if I wasn’t already fully
briefed on this matter, I’d stop the purchase of hollow point bullets, ask the
secretary of Defense why all this ammunition is being purchased and spread
around the country? If I got answers like the ones Congress got during the
investigation of Operation Fast and Furious – I’d start tracking all ammunition
deliveries nationwide to find out what organizations and units are using them,
for what purpose and, if it is not constitutional, prepare to counteract
whatever it is that they are doing.
This is a deadly serious business. I hope I’m
wrong, but something smells rotten. And If the Congress isn’t going to do its
duty and investigate this matter fully, the military will have to protect the
Constitution, the nation, and our citizens.
Jerry Curry is a decorated combat veteran, Army
Aviator, Paratrooper, and Ranger, who for nearly forty years has served his
country both in the military and as a Presidential political appointee.
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