Hell Of A Quote Here... And A Couple Of Articles About The Militarization Of Police...

[WillyT]

Military Equipment Rolls Into America's Cities
The Huffington Post | By Simon McCormack
Posted: 06/09/2014 5:42 pm EDT

But other members of law enforcement, like retired NYPD Det. John Baeza, disagree:

A profession that I was once proud to serve in has become a militarized police state. Officers are quicker to draw their guns and use their tanks than to communicate with people to diffuse a situation. They love to use their toys and when they do, people die.

The days of the peace officer are long gone, replaced by the militarized police warrior wearing uniforms making them indistinguishable from military personnel.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/09/military-equipment-used-by-police_n_5475382.html

More thoughts here from last year...

Former Cops Speak Out About Police Militarization
By Radley Balko
Posted: 08/01/2013 11:09 am EDT | Updated: 08/01/2013 2:25 pm EDT

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/cops-speak-out-on-police-_n_3688999.html

[damnedifIknow]

1. It's very sad

"In America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them. " Gerry Spence, From Freedom to Slavery.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Militarization of the police is a necessary component

of a total surveillance state coupled with a for profit prison industry.

Three legs to the stool.


Thanks for the thread, WillyT.

[truedelphi]

3. Right you are. And we all know whom the prisons are built to hold,

Although the idealists and dreamers among us wish it would change:

"Someone needs to explain to me
Why wanting clean water makes you an activist

And proposing to destroy water with
Chemical Warfare and fracking fluids doesn't make you a terrorist?"

Winona Duke Anishinaabe

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. Wow. Great quote! People are so easily convince to believe in the illogical.

[pscot]

4. K&R

[bl968]

5. Better one

"There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." --Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

[kardonb]

6. p olice

this is complete bullpucky . Do you have the faintest idea what our police are up against ? Insane people with guns , violent , lawless criminals , etc . Without them to protect you from these creeps , You would be the next victim , with no one to help you .
Quit making war on our policemen and-women. They stand between you and chaos !

[statementofgoods]

7. milk

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. We need a national commission on law enforcement standards and practices.

[WillyT]

10. Yes We Do...