Police and Military in America

Posse Comitatus may or may not be suspended, but it's at least a part of the reason for all of these SWAT teams: Americans respond poorly to being ordered about like slaves, and even those who are otherwise most ignorant of the law know that the military is NOT supposed to perform police work or anything of the sort within the U.S. So what did they do? Well, police are perfectly legal - so the Pentagon created SWAT teams from behind the curtain, made them THE thing to want to do for your regular police. I mean, look at them: cool, evil-looking black uniforms, extra time to work out and get paid for it, extra training (military brainwashing if they only knew it), and all of those wonderful military toys! Cops LOVE guns! They're almost all of them gun nuts, and here they get all sorts of military-grade weaponry! And now there's all that great Star Wars stuff like a sound cannon, a microwave "ray gun" that they SAY causes no damage. Really? I'll never believe it, any more than I do the notion that the sound cannon is harmless - it breaks eardrums - or that Tasers are "non-lethal' - they're LESS lethal, until they're misused by hitting someone in the head with one or tasing someone twenty times when they're already injured or old or have heart problems, or when they're infants. Cops have one set of priorities that include protecting citizens, even at the risk of their own safety. The military has an entirely different set of priorities. They kill for one thing. Cops CAN kill, but that is the very last resort; for the military it's a first priority. They protect EACH OTHER AND THEMSELVES. Not the ones they are sent after. Those are The Enemy. Cops already have a disdain for criminals. Add the military conditioning and criminals, who must take the place of The Enemy, become dangerous social TRASH, and in the minds of our now militarized police, it doesn't matter what happens to them. We now have an occupying military scattered all over the U.S.; theyre just called police. They feel totally superior to ordinary citizens, they feel entitled - to instant obedience by the groveling, fearful, nothing populace who ought to be glad to keep their increasingly poverty-stricken lives if they do. When one fails to grovel sufficiently it's interpreted as disrespect, and disrespect is a threat; it will very often get them attacked and at least beaten severely for their temerity. (The crime is known as Contempt of Cop). This is part of the reason that the military is never supposed to perform policing actions within the U.S. The police and the military have very different missions, and must use very different tactics. Too many cops are bullies to begin with though, and there are famous studies about how even ordinary people, equals, when divided up into prisoners and guards, take on the mentality, including abuse from the ones designated as guards. Hand actual police this kind of power and they go off the rails quickly and far too easily, especially when theyre shown over and over that they wont be held accountable even when they murder someone. They'll lie to cover for each other, as the military will. Their buddies are all soldiers have besides their own skill and aggression between surviving a war and dying, and cops are being trained and conditioned like soldiers. A standing army has ALWAYS become a danger to the civilian populace of its own country if it is kept long enough and also kept just training between conflicts. This is why Roman law forbade the army crossing the Rubicon into Rome proper. When it did, it

signaled the beginning of martial law and the end of Rome as anything but a military dictatorship. They went from protecting Rome as well as expanding it to choosing who became Caesar, and then to selling the throne to the highest bidder. We just seem to have skipped that middle stage. As long as the military, government or mercenary, is permitted to operate in the civilian sphere we will continue to have incidents like this. Killing is what soldiers do, and they are conditioned to be arrogant, taught to intimidate. Police are taught much differently. Sadly, they have long since crossed the Rubicon, and America has long since ceased to be any sort of Republic. The corporations own every seat of power in Washington D.C. there is, including the Supreme Court which is packed with traitors. It's going to be very, very hard to undo this, if it can be undone. Ian MacLeod July 17th, 2011 Oregon