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In reply to the discussion: One of the scariest pictures I've seen in a long time. [View all]Boreal
(725 posts)Because the Posse Comitatus Act prevented military from being used against US citizens, the federal government simply went around it and militarized local LE. With the creation of Homeland Security it even got worse and additional work-arounds were created (for instance the Coast Guard was put under DHS). The federal government is pouring grant money, training and military equipment into local LE depts and they are brainwashing the likes of officer Dickbag. Who was once just some loser bully who became a cop is now a Marine (so he imagines himself) and all of us (black, white, hispanic, doesn't matter, left, right, apathetic, doesn't matter) are the enemy. In Dickbag's head, he's in some virtual reality where he's in Iraq and we're insurgents. In a few days "training", DHS has these assholes all pumped up and feeling badass but with a siege mentality of us against them.
Something else I've been noticing for quite a while now, and that MO State Police dude used the term last night, is cops calling us "civilians", indicating that they aren't. Well, domestic LE ARE civilians. We have (or are supposed to have) civilian LE in this country. Military are not civil LE. So this is more proof of how these knuckle dragger cops have been brainwashed by the feds and it's a serious problem. Keep your ears open for them calling us civilians and you'll be shocked how often they speak like that. Oh, btw, such language also conditions the uneducated public into buying that we are civilians and the cops are not.