Tag: Militarized Police
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Drones in Texas and Tanks in Tampa: Inside the Out-Of-Control Weaponized Homeland Security State
Stephan Salisbury - Government budgets at every level now include allocations aimed at fighting an ephemeral “War on Terror” in the United States. At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as ...
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Saying No to Militarism
Robert Koehler - No mail on Saturday, maybe, but small-town police get armored personnel carriers? Let's take a moment -- in the context of these bitter times, and President Obama's recent austerity ...