{"id":1947,"date":"2006-07-13T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/land-of-the-free-home-of-the-military-industrial-complex\/"},"modified":"2006-07-13T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T15:11:19","slug":"land-of-the-free-home-of-the-military-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/land-of-the-free-home-of-the-military-industrial-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of the Free, Home of the Military-Industrial Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Tiny, touristy, laid-back Santa Fe is armed to the teeth against &#8230; whatever. Which were the other 4 towns? Reserve? How many did Wyoming get? <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/north\/475568north_news07-13-06.htm\">ABQjournal: Santa Fe SWAT Team Unveils Its New Armored Bearcat<\/a> By Jeremy Pawloski, Journal Staff Report<\/p>\n<p>    The Santa Fe Police Department&#8217;s SWAT Team has a new toy\u2014 a $250,000, armor-plated, bullet-resistant black Bearcat.<\/p>\n<p>    <strong class=\"highlight\">The Bearcat is built to intimidate<\/strong>, with gunports on its sides and huge wheels that can take it offroad virtually anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>    Primarily, the vehicle will be used in any situation that the SWAT Team needs it\u2014 hostage situations, extracting barricaded subjects, serving &#8220;high-risk&#8221; search warrants in narcotics investigations and protecting visiting dignitaries, according to Santa Fe SWAT Commander Lt. Gary Johnson. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <strong class=\"highlight\">five Bearcats distributed to various SWAT teams across New Mexico<\/strong> were paid for with state and federal Homeland Security grant money, according to Santa Fe SWAT Team Leader Officer John Schaerfl.<\/p>\n<p>    Schaerfl said the Bearcat has a built-in radiation detector and an &#8220;explosive atmosphere detector&#8221; that will sound an alarm in the event of a potentially explosive gas leak. A porthole at the top of the Bearcat allows SWAT members to peek outside. The vehicle also has air-conditioning and a CD player.<\/p>\n<p>    Gary Johnson said the Bearcat could be utilized in the event of any potential terrorist threats in New Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny, touristy, laid-back Santa Fe is armed to the teeth against &#8230; whatever. Which were the other 4 towns? Reserve? How many did Wyoming get? mjh ABQjournal: Santa Fe SWAT Team Unveils Its New Armored Bearcat By Jeremy Pawloski, Journal Staff Report The Santa Fe Police Department&#8217;s SWAT Team has a new toy\u2014 a $250,000, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/land-of-the-free-home-of-the-military-industrial-complex\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Land of the Free, Home of the Military-Industrial Complex<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}