List of countries the USA has bombed since the end of World War II

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68. Since 1980, we even have our militarized police turn against us...

Remember back in 1981, when that neighborhood in a Pennsylvannia big city had a half block of residences burn, as the police went ballistic in pursuit of gang members.

And then in early 1993, there was Waco TX, where close to eighty people were murdered. (Including some 17 pregnant women.) Within two weeks after this murderous ATF/FBI slaughter, Time and Newsweek magazine reported how David Koresh coud have easily been appprehended by simply having FBI or ATF agents go to the video store where he went to pick up new videos several times a week, and then the agents could have taken him into custody. And that strtegy would not have cost anyone any injuries or loss of life!

But the Two Thousand Teens will probably beat all. We already have seen looting and trashing of neighborhood stores in Ferguson, with suspicious types of perhaps government provacateurs helping to do the looting.

Then we find out this week that :

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/school-districts-1033-program-military-equipment

School Districts receive heavy duty military weapons including grenade launchers!


From the article linked to above:
More than 20 school districts in the United States have been equipped with military-grade equipment through the federal program that provides such gear to local and state authorities free of charge, according to civil rights groups.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Texas Appleseed, a legal advocacy group, sent a letter on behalf of a coalition of civil rights groups to the federal agency that administers the program on Monday. The letter requested reforms be made to the 1033 program, which has come under significant scrutiny after the heavily armed police response to protests in Ferguson, Mo., last month.

The letter cited "published reports" that have showed military equipment being transferred from the Pentagon to the school districts. It said the total number of transfers from the Defense Department to U.S. schools "is difficult to determine."

KPBS in Sand Diego reported that the city's school district had received a mine-resistant vehicle. KTLA in Los Angeles reported that the district there had also received its own mine-resistant vehicle as well as grenade launchers. KHOU in Houston reported that local school districts had received military firearms. And a school district in Edinburg, Texas, has employed a full SWAT unit, according to the letter, which is equipped through the 1033 program. The groups pointed to a news image that showed officers in military fatigues standing in front of school buses. "It is frankly difficult to imagine how a grenade launcher, or any of these items, could be safely used in any scenario involving schools," the letter said.