My wife and I get lots of toy catalogs now that we have a toddler. Some of the toys are pretty odd, but this is by far the most disturbing thing I’ve seen yet. It’s in the latest Toys to Grow On catalog, and features a telescoping baton, “real” handcuffs, a tactical vest and more. Everything, in fact, but the firearm!
I have to wonder at the wisdom of creating such a set for marketing to children. But I suppose in these paranoid times of dwindling civil rights, it’s just the thing that will sell to a certain demographic of parent.
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monopole 9:06 pm on 12/05/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
What? No pepper spray, teargas grenades, or LRADs? Better add those or the kids will start putting tents in the backyard and playing drums!
robdobbs 10:07 pm on 12/05/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Why is the image private if we can see it here??
dtbrady77 3:50 pm on 12/06/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I had toy handcuffs as a kid. I also had a toy police badge and a toy police cap. I even had toy guns. Like, a lot of them. I had cap guns and Photon and a black Entertech Tech-9 and lever action rifles and a handgun with an ankle holster and probably a lot more than I can remember. One of my favorite toys was a black rubber knife from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World. It was super cool. My favorite show was G.I. Joe. They were my favorite action figures too. I dressed as an army man more than once for Halloween. So, this FBI thing would have been right up my alley. I would have dog-eared the page in the J.C. Penney catalog and incessantly ask my parents if they were SURE Santa knew that I wanted the FBI guy outfit.
And yet I still believe in protecting civil rights. Even for people I don’t agree with ideologically. It could be some kind of miracle, like the time I saw Jesus high-fiving another guy in my toast. Or maybe I had good parents who made it clear that these things were make believe and that hurting people is wrong and that people that look different or think different are people just like me that deserve to be treated like I’d want them to treat me and that I need to tell the truth and that when I do something wrong I need to apologize and etc.
My parents didn’t buy me that shit because they were gun nuts, supported a police state or sought the rise of swashbuckling pirates with whom they could take to the seas and blunder people at will. They got them because they’re fucking toys. And, I’m sure, to shut up they’re annoying 5-12 year old son that was harassing the shit out of them.
robertsgt40 8:53 pm on 12/06/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Does the aircraft carrier come with depleted uranium oridance?
King 9:08 pm on 12/06/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Gotta love the Fascist Policestate.
Propaganda for the next wave of idiots (kids) to fight and die for the banksters and Israel firsters.
Harry Balcz 9:06 am on 12/07/2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
y’all left out the CIA puppet Barry Soetoro’s drones to murder your next door neighbor as a preemptive strike because they looked at you funny as you mowed the lawn the other day. it’s the Merkan Whey!