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Post by avordvet on Jul 7, 2017 4:58:36 GMT -5
Yes, yes it is... Is Terrorism Transforming America Into A Police State?by Tyler Durden, Jul 7, 2017 2:00 AM, Authored by Ted Galen Carpenter via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Posse Comitatus Act, which Congress passed in 1878, severely restricts the role of the military in domestic law enforcement. Unfortunately, that restriction has experienced significant erosion in recent decades, with some prominent political figures deriding the statute as “archaic.” Even if the language of the act remains more or less intact, it will have little relevance if the proliferation of SWAT units continues. SWAT personnel are combat soldiers in everything but name. It matters little if they are technically police operating as part of a local government if their weapons and tactics are those of an occupying army. The old adage that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck, applies to the SWAT phenomenon. The sight of such combat forces deployed in civilian neighborhoods in the United States is jarringly reminiscent of the images Americans once believed confined to repressive police states. It is tragic that such images are now the norm in America itself. www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-06/terrorism-transforming-america-police-state
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