Police State - The Militarization of the Police Force in USA

[JohnyCanuck]

Run time: 06:04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k5y3fBH9Og   Posted on YouTube: October 24, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 29, 2009 By DU Member: JohnyCanuck Views on DU: 1054

 

[nc4bo]

1. oh my fuckin god.

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid.

[AspenRose]

2. For real; just ask Cheye Calvo

:scared:

[the other one]

3. Well done. K & R

[lib2DaBone]

4. ..And who can forget the uber righteous War On Drugs....

... where you can be imprisioned for 10-20 for possession of a Marijuana Seed.

[Ramulux]

5. This is fucked

I wouldn't have a problem equipping our law enforcement with decent weaponry, if they were actually able to use it properly. Not a day goes by that you don't hear about some fucked up case of police brutality. Until the police in this country get their shit together I would honestly rather have them use bow and arrows. For example, I live in a place called Ventura County just outside of Los Angeles and the cops in this area are known across the state as fucking psychos. We barely have any crime here so the cops just fuck with people in order to fill up their quotas. I personally have been in some really twisted situations with the cops out here and to say the least they are frightening individuals. They know that they can pretty much do whatever they want to you, and they have no problem making sure you realize that. This is just one county, which has two of the safest cities in the country and they act like Nazis, so I cannot even imagine the corruption in somewhere like downtown LA.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. What the hell do they need rocket launchers for?

?

[maxpower]

7. This is not America

What the fuck is going on?




Peace,
Max

[PreacherCasey]

8. And, like it or not, this is one reason why so many people deemed "right wing crazies" feel

they need semi-automatic weapons and what some people would call "arsenals". Dismiss it if you want, but it IS a major factor.

[hmorehead]

9. They've been looking like an SS occupation army for years

and because at least here in Austin because more than half live outside Austin, ARE an occupation army.

[StreetKnowledge]

10. Man, isn't have 3.3 illion soldiers enough?

Fuck, when did cops have to be ready to fight wars?

[JohnyCanuck]

11. Robocops Come to Pittsburgh

...and Bring the Latest Weaponry with Them

By Mike Ferner

No longer the stuff of disturbing futuristic fantasies, an arsenal of “crowd control munitions,” including one that reportedly made its debut in the U.S., was deployed with a massive, overpowering police presence in Pittsburgh during last week's G-20 protests.

Nearly 200 arrests were made and civil liberties groups charged the many thousands of police (most transported on Port Authority buses displaying “PITTSBURGH WELCOMES THE WORLD”), from as far away as Arizona and Florida with overreacting"and they had plenty of weaponry with which to do it.

SNIP

In Pittsburgh last week, an enormously expensive show of police and weaponry, intended for “security” of the G20 delegates, simultaneously shut workers out of downtown jobs for two days, forced gasping students and residents back into their dormitories and homes, and turned journalists' press passes into quaint, obsolete reminders of a bygone time.

Most significant of all, however, was what Witold Walczak, legal director of the Pennsylvania ACLU, told the Associated Press: “It's not just intimidation, it's disruption and in some cases outright prevention of peaceful protesters being able to get their message out.”

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Robocops-Come-to-Pittsburg-by-mike-ferner-090928-713.html

[JohnyCanuck]

12. The Police Are Rioting: Reflections on Pittsburgh

By David Rovics,

There is a popular assumption asserted ad nauseum by our leaders in government, by our school text books and by our “mainstream” media that although many other countries don't have freedom of speech and freedom of assembly – such as Iran or China – we do, and it's what makes us so great. Anybody who has spent much time trying to exercise their First Amendment rights in the US now or at any other time since 1776 knows first-hand that the First Amendment looks good on paper but has little to do with reality.

Dissent has never really been tolerated in the USA. As we've seen in recent election cycles even just voting for a Democratic presidential candidate and having your vote count can be quite a challenge – as anyone who has not had their head in sand knows, Bush lost both elections and yet kept his office fraudulently twice. But for those who want to exercise their rights beyond the government-approved methods – that is, their right to vote for one of two parties, their right to bribe politicians (“lobby”) if they have enough money, or their right to write a letter to the editor in the local Murdoch-owned rag, if it hasn't closed shop yet – the situation is far worse.

Let's go back in history for a minute. After the victory of the colonies over Britain in the Revolutionary War, the much-heralded US Constitution included no rights for citizens other than the rights of the landed gentry to run the show. This changed as a direct result of a years-long rebellion of the citizens of western Massachusetts that came to be known as Shays' Rebellion. Shays' Rebellion scared the pants off the powers-that-be and they did what the powers-that-be do and have always done all over the world – passed some reforms in order to avert a situation where the rich would lose more than just western Massachusetts. They passed the Bill of Rights.

Fast forward more than a century. Ostensibly this great democracy had had the Bill of Rights enshrined in law for quite a long time now. Yet in 1914 a supporter of labor unionism could not make a soapbox speech on a sidewalk in this country without being beaten and arrested by police for the crime of disturbing the peace, blocking the sidewalk or whatever other nonsense the cops made up at the time.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Police-Are-Rioting--R-by-David-Rovics-090928-205.html

[midnight]

13. Good post johny. Wish I saw it 24 hours ago. It is K&R worthy.

[ForeignSpectator]

14. Kick

[JohnyCanuck]

15. American Police Force, comming soon to a town near you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3tiCrihW84&feature=player_embedded

Listen at the 3:28 mark, some yahoo local official, speaking of this "American Police Force", is quoted as saying they are excited to have a military presence in a town without a police force. Is this AFP a police force or a fucking army? Army, police force, mercenary army, Posse Comitatus, best not to let yourself get bogged down in technicalities when there are evil doers all around and empty jails that need filling.

[JohnyCanuck]

17. UPDATE: The 'Mysterious' Firm Policing Montana & hired to fill its empty jail is BLACKWATER

See this thread in GD:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6667901

[annm4peace]

16. Ask your politician. "How will they secure Civil Rights and our Constitution"

I belonged to Peace Fresno.. we were deemed a "terrorist" organization and a deputy Sheriff spied on us for 6 months before he died in a motorcycle accident. The Sheriff's dept 6 months later received enough money from Homeland Security for high tech equipment.


6 years later, I'm living in MInneapolis, MN Our peace group WAMM, Woman Against Military Madness is under surveillance as a possible domestic terrorist group 1 year before the RNC.

If you watch "Terrorizing Dissent" on computer or DVD.. you can see "Militarized Police State".

And the local Democrats are silent, or praise the "police force".

I and others are now asking our candidates. Will you repel the MN Patriot Act, and how will you protect our civil rights?