04-21-2014, 12:33 AM
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Who's flying this thing ?
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: N. California./ N. Nevada
Posts: 3,611
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Originally Posted by elchivito
The town nearest me, a city of less than 10K people, has a fleet of battle clad Hummers, helicopters, enough para-military type SWAT gear to outfit 2 or 3 times as many cops as it actually employs. This is a disturbing trend for sure. It also has no direct bearing on the facts of the Bundy case.
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 <----- You are wrong; it absolutely *DOES* have "a direct bearing in the facts of this case".
When the police becomes so militarized, in the chain of command structure, its uniforms, equipment, weapons, tactical training, and "mission" - (the "war" on drugs, for example) and so similar to an army fighting an all-out war, WHY should you be particularly SURPRISED if it then ACTS like a regular army, fighting a war?
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