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"If a widespread pattern
of [knock-and-announce] violations were shown . . .
there would be
reason for grave concern."
—Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in
Hudson v. Michigan, June 15, 2006.
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The Psychotic Militarization of Law Enforcement
How did it ever come down to abandoning peace keeping and
accepting law enforcement by any means? Even the New York Times expresses
alarm in, When the Police Go Military.
"The
Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 generally bars the military from law
enforcement activities within the United States. But today, some local
and city police forces have rendered the law rather moot. They have tanks
- yes, tanks, often from military surplus, for use in hostage situations
or drug raids - not to mention the sort of equipment and training one
would need to deter a Mumbai-style guerrilla assault."
"The SWAT concept
was popularized by Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates in the late
1960s in response to large-scale incidents for which the police were
ill-prepared. But the use of SWAT teams has since exploded. Massive SWAT raids using military-style equipment are
becoming routine methods for executing search warrants. One study
estimates 40,000 such raids per year nationwide:
"These
increasingly frequent raids… are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug
offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of
having their homes invaded while they're sleeping, usually by teams of
heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as
soldiers."
John W. Whitehead writes in the Huffington Post that "it appears to have less to do with increases in violent crime and
more to do with law enforcement bureaucracy and a police state mentality."
Mr. Whitehead is
correct as usual. Unfortunately, few other
constitutional conservatives seem to have the courage to criticize the
thin blue line of establishment regulators.
"American neighborhoods are increasingly being policed
by cops armed with the weapons and tactics of war. Federal funding in the
billions of dollars has allowed state and local police departments to
gain access to weapons and tactics created for overseas combat theaters -
and yet very little is known about exactly how many police departments
have military weapons and training, how militarized the police have
become, and how extensively federal money is incentivizing this trend.
It's time to understand the true scope of the militarization of policing
in America and the impact it is having in our neighborhoods. Since March
6th, ACLU affiliates in 25 states filed over 260 public records requests
with law enforcement agencies and National Guard offices to determine the
extent to which federal funding and support has fueled the militarization
of state and local police departments."
One of the "so
called" unintended consequences of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is
the intentional indoctrination of troops into the culture of excessive
force, citizen combatant threats and indiscriminate brutality. The suppression of common law natural rights is the
ultimate causality of this deranged and profane mind control.
The study Can a Veteran go into Law Enforcement after a PTSD
Diagnosis?, inquiry provides a useful
comparison chart of several police agencies. The summary concludes that
several agencies stated that they had hired individuals with histories of
PTSD and most agencies did not have specific protocols for evaluating
PTSD.
If military training
becomes instinctive and reactive, treating
civilians as expected terrorists, why would society presume
that stateside transition into a police academy course will purge the
damaging traits of urban warfare?
Behind the curtain of "public safety" the real
controllers adopt and practice their perverse version of, The
Psychopathic Influence, that dominates the
domestic police mentality.
Both the
financial elite and their servants who maintain this system, appear to
exhibit behavior that is consistent with symptoms associated with a
medical disorder known as psychopathy.(*) Psychopaths, also called
sociopaths, are categorized as those who exhibit superficial charm and
intelligence, and are absent of delusions or nervousness. Their traits
include:
- Unreliability
- Frequent
lying
- Deceitful
and manipulative behavior (either goal-oriented or for the delight of the
act itself)
- Lack of
remorse or shame
-
Antisocial behavior
- Poor
judgment and failure to learn by experience
-
Incapacity for love
- Poverty
of general emotions
- Loss of
insight
-
Unresponsiveness in personal relations
- A
frequent need for excitement
- An
inflated self-worth
- An
ability to rationalize their behavior
- A need
for complete power
- A need to
dominate others
Often candidates with such a Napoleonic complex demonstrate
that they really are "little men", when it comes to their
desire to become goons. The Police Are Paramilitary Thugs, makes a valid point.
"In
America, our cops are becoming less and less distinguishable from the
security apparati of 1970s-era petty dictatorships in Central and South
America. Where once they wore uniforms which were appropriate to civil
servants, albeit ones with guns, they now don the habiliments of what
more closely resembles a paramilitary organization, and they have the
bullying, menacing, we’re-above-the-law attitudes to go along with them.
These attitudes are demonstrated in this video, which unambiguously shows one such paramilitary — what
point is there in referring to them any longer as "cops" since
that term suggests a civil role? – Seizing a video recording device from
an innocuous bystander. The transparently absurd justification for the
seizure was that the device contained evidence that the person being
arrested was "resisting", and therefore, they were entitled to
take it."
How
did 9/11 alter the domestic relationship between the military and police?
"It really just
accelerated a process that had already been in motion for 20 years. The
main effect of 9/11 on domestic policing is the
DHS grant program, which writes huge checks to local police departments
across the country to purchase machine guns, helicopters, tanks, and
armored personnel carriers. The Pentagon had already been giving away the
same weapons and equipment for about a decade, but the DHS grants make
that program look tiny.
But
probably of more concern is the ancillary effect of those grants. DHS
grants are lucrative enough that many defense contractors are now turning
their attention to police agencies -- and some companies have sprung up
solely to sell military-grade weaponry to police agencies who get those
grants. That means we're now building a new industry whose sole function
is to militarize domestic police departments. Which means it won't be
long before we see pro-militarization lobbying and pressure groups with
lots of (taxpayer) money to spend to fight reform. That's a corner it
will be difficult to un-turn. We're probably there already. Say hello to
the police-industrial complex."
"To
Protect and Serve" is now an euphemism for breaking heads. Police Thugs Claim They’re Here to "Serve"
wants you to believe that "police are basically the same all over
the world: they describe their role of carrying out the force and
coercion required by those wanting to control others as being a role of
"serving the people." Those who are at the receiving end of the
force and coercion are usually submissive and question nothing."
Tell that to Adam Kokesh.
The
"Code of Silence" enables The Militarization of American Police, to blow smoke
on a gullible public. Accountability and recourse is a myth. The SWAT
system whacks the public as if they were nuisance flies.
"Police
supporters claim the public already has plenty of oversight. But
observers always find the same pattern: The internal investigations are
not public, and the deputies stay on the force with no obvious
punishment. The DA exonerates the deputies. The grand jury only gets
involved in the most highly publicized cases, and such juries are
controlled by the DA and represent a narrow, conservative demographic.
(Around here, it's mostly retired government workers who can afford to
spend half their day working at the court for virtually no pay.) When a
member of the public files a complaint with a police or sheriff's
department, it typically takes months to hear anything back. Then the
only legal requirement is for the agency to say whether the complaint was
"sustained" or "not sustained." Such complaints are
rarely sustained."
The psychotic statists that have no problem with the
militarization of law enforcement are enemies of the people. How far has
this country fallen . . . Listen to the fateful words of the nature of the
police by the original Godfather of the Chicago Gestapo. The demented and
mentally deranged oligarchy, who is at war with the American public, is
the true terrorist. Police need to examine, recite and act upon the Oath Keepers - Declaration Of Orders We Will Not Obey.
SARTRE –
July 14, 2013
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It's no longer correct to call
it the "militarization" of the police when the Rules of
Engagement are tougher for the Marines shooting at terrorists than for
cops shooting at you.
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