[Scotsman will be Free]

While I agree that we are turning our policemen into soldiers, which is a very bad idea, I didn’t see anything other than normal crowd control tactics used against the OWS clowns.

[PapaBear3625]

While I agree that we are turning our policemen into soldiers, which is a very bad idea, I didn’t see anything other than normal crowd control tactics used against the OWS clowns.

They are saving the heavy stuff for use against right-wingers.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

While I agree that we are turning our policemen into soldiers, which is a very bad idea, I didn’t see anything other than normal crowd control tactics used against the OWS clowns.

OWS are the good guys.

We're the bad guys.

[SuperLuminal]

"While I agree that we are turning our policemen into soldiers, which is a very bad idea, I didn’t see anything other than normal crowd control tactics used against the OWS clowns. "

Yep! But the hundreds of SWATiska invasions of the homes of absolutely innocent citizens' in the middle of the night during the past decade that have resulted in dead senior citizens, dogs, miscarriages, and surprised men & women defending their family certainly have been a product of the fascist mind-set within governments at all levels.

There has never been a moral or Constitutionally legal reason for the conversion of local gendarmes to the equivalent of the 30's German SS.

The primary reason is that, unable to eliminate the 2nd amendment, as government gets bigger it needs to begin preparations to defend itself in case the serfs finally try to jump out of the "pot of boiling water".

In addition, as part of their long-term strategy, our rulers have been implementing a process of disarmament, chickification, and faggotization of the Nation's military.

[takenoprisoner]

OWS union supported. Police are unionized. Maybe that was why?

[Still Thinking]

While I agree that we are turning our policemen into soldiers, which is a very bad idea, I didn’t see anything other than normal crowd control tactics used against the OWS clowns.

Yeah, but they fall into the statists' "useful idiot" category. Wait till they feel the need to deal with some real Constitutionalists.