Posted on 08/23/2014 7:19:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
http://www.freep.com/article/20140817/NEWS06/140726001/
note all the automatic weapons transferred.
If “most” SWAT do not employ fully automatic weapons, then it is just a matter of time before these departments catch up.
Militarization starts in the language, not the guns, and this is the trap liberals are setting us up for disarmament.
The police wages politics as an extension of war, and they have been just as disgusting as the looters in that respect, and in fact letting looters loot, not those calling them out on their political methods and warfare on every day people.
I am sick and tired of cops acting cute or special or “brotherhooy”.
The police has made its bed politically defending the “little flower child” and blacks victim of racism in order to attack men and families with CPS, and now they have to make do with them. It is going to be ugly.
Reasons for ferguson
1. black criminal underclass culture
2. notions of entitlement
3. paranoia
4. bitterness and envy
5. hatred of white police
6. idleness
7. welfare programs
8. broken families
9. imported gangbangers and communists
10. black leadership
11. Media propagandists
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129. police militarization
The police weren’t overzealous as the miltarization theory insists
they were actually way too passive and let the rioters and lotters mostly do whatever the heck they wanted to.
It’s sensible to mistrust all government to a degree. But there’s a line where being an anarchist begins and many seem to have crossed over it.
Scapegoats for black criminal underclass behavior-
Slavery
Racism
profiling
poverty
not enough government spending
and the latest in the long and dubious line- police militariazation
Indeed. When the police started referring to us as "civilians" instead of "citizens", the decline accelerated.
Militarization may not be a myth but the Norman Rockwell/Andy Taylor view most certainly is. Let’s get real if we are going to have a real discussion of the issue.
My parents were never afraid of the police.
I was never afraid of the police -- even as a college kid who didn't always do the right thing, I was never afraid of the police.
Today, I am a model citizen, wife, kids, nice house, nice town, good job. And when I see the cops, I get scared.
Something changed in America. And it wasn't me.
That’s a streeeeeeetch - and missing the point. The same conservatives who are worried about the militarization of the police are equally, or more concerned, about the militarization of the numerous Fed agencies who now have their own armies.
I don’t think there’s any analogy here at all.
no argument here….
FWIW, I correct any officer that I work with that the police are civilians.
“...When the police started referring to us as “civilians” instead of “citizens”...”
Remember when (unarmored) patrol cars used to have “To Serve and Protect” painted on the doors?
Try to find one of those mottoes on a cruiser today.
Maybe not at this point, but at some future point militarized federal police could do just that.
The people on the streets of Ferguson inciting and or committing violence against the local “militarized police” were the very communists of the Chavista variety.
Communists have always taken the side of the criminals and portrayed them as “victims” of the capitalist system.
This kind of mentality caused the prisons of Russia to be emptied of criminals when the Communists took over as Solzehnitsyn noted in “Gulag Archipelago”.
Thanks. That's my usual approach at the Senior center when a few retireds say that. Surprising, because they are of the Old School.
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