ACLU Report on Militarized Policing: SWAT Team Deployments, Federal Programs Foster Warrior Mentalit

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16. The Founding Fathers did not want the US taxpayers to support a standing army,

but of course we have left that restraint far behind.

As for the police: the military is not supposed to be used in law enforcement, but now the lines have become so blurred, deliberately so, that even though we call them cops, the uniformed individuals who are used to enforce domestic laws are in many places really just an occupying army. American citizens are being brutalized and oppressed by them in ways that are not all that easy to differentiate from the brutality occupying forces visit on the denizens of any occupied land.