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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"a lot of Americans were surprised to see TV images of an armed-to-the-teeth paramilitary wing of the BLM deployed around Bundy’s ranch."
"The proliferation of paramilitary federal SWAT teams inevitably brings abuses that have nothing to do with either drugs or terrorism. Many of the raids they conduct are against harmless, often innocent, Americans who typically are accused of non-violent civil or administrative violations. "

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Please explain your post. Do YOU have something to say? This looks like you are just quoting something else with no link?

<----- 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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