Facts Our Party Will Not Officially Admit, That It Must

[stupidicus]

117. Gee, what happened to the biggie

that the war criminals have to be prosecuted according to domestic/ international law? Dictators thrive and grow in an environement absent fear of reprisals, which is applicable to about if not everything you noted in some way, no?

ANd is BHO afraid of social disorder as Bush was?

A recent New York Times article by Matt Apuzzo reported that in the Obama era, “police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft.” The result is that police agencies around the nation possess military-grade equipment, turning officers who are supposed to fight crime and protect communities into what looks like an invading army. And military-style police raids have increased in recent years, with one count putting the number at 80,000 such raids last year. http://billmoyers.com/2014/08/13/not-just-ferguson-11-eye-opening-facts-about-americas-militarized-police-forces/

He is to Bush as Bush was to Raygun

“[During] this 50 years of evolution, they really changed from their initial intent," she told host Alyona Minkovski. “They were designed to deal with very violent confrontations starting primarily in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was ramping up the drug war and these … federal grants [were] coming in to take military surplus goods and transfer them to local police forces. Those two things sort of coalesced.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/08/retro-report-police-militarization-_n_5785540.html

given he's made no moves to roll it all back. It's almost like it's "new" news or something.

ANd perhaps the dems, or Clinton in particular, should explain this.

That's where the 1033 program comes in. The 1033 program is a Department of Defense initiative that channels surplus military equipment to state and local police departments. It began in 1990 after initially being authorized by Congress through the National Defense Authorization Act. At first, it only transferred excess personal property from the Defense Department to federal and state agencies for drug-related activities. Later, in 1996, it was authorized for use in both drug- and terrorism-related situations.http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/08/the-evolution-of-police-militarization-in-ferguson-and-beyond/376107/

The simple fact of the matter, it'd the precursor -- the "War on Drugs" -- to the phony war on terror, that explains the militarization, and like with almost all matters of foreign policy, that's where we find the most "bi-partisanship" in DC.

Thanks for demanding that the dems admit their complicity in all these abominations.