The United States Of SWAT?...

[Jarlaxle]

^ must be on drudge ALL rw'ers have drudge as one of their main homepage tabs.

I will bet you a trillion trillion dollars that you pulled this "fact" out of your sphincter!

 

[Jarlaxle]

I like the staged picture in the OP. It's pretty cool.

I don't think it's staged...

 

[Jarlaxle]

Interesting read on the Militarization of our domestic Police Force.


Military-style units from government agencies are wreaking havoc on non-violent citizens.
By John Fund

Regardless of how people feel about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over his cattle’s grazing rights, 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.

They shouldn’t have been. Dozens of federal agencies now have Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams to further an expanding definition of their missions. It’s not controversial that the Secret Service and the Bureau of Prisons have them. But what about the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? All of these have their own SWAT units and are part of a worrying trend towards the militarization of federal agencies — not to mention local police forces.

“Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier,” journalist Radley Balko writes in his 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop. “The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”

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.

Take the case of Kenneth Wright of Stockton, Calif., who was “visited” by a SWAT team from the U.S. Department of Education in June 2011. Agents battered down the door of his home at 6 a.m., dragged him outside in his boxer shorts, and handcuffed him as they put his three children (ages 3, 7, and 11) in a police car for two hours while they searched his home. The raid was allegedly intended to uncover information on Wright’s estranged wife, Michelle, who hadn’t been living with him and was suspected of college financial-aid fraud...

Read More:
The United States of SWAT? | National Review Online
DRUDGE REPORT 2014®

Do you have a parallel repugnance for right-wing militias and assassins killing police, robbing banks to finance the Aryan Nation, and killing anyone they think might be Jewish, black, or gay?

Does it bother you that a private non-profit must supply the government with information and statistics on violent domestic extremist groups and provide local police departments with information and training on organized cop killers?

Probably not. But then again you don't give a shit about people getting killed in Kansas City as long as your Skinhead white power Klan organizers exercise their second amendment rights to be terrorists.

Don't get me wrong. I am appalled by the militarization of police, believe that 99% of all SWAT teams should be disbanded, and think we have way too many rotten apples (albeit a small minority) in law enforcement who abuse their authority and belong in jail. I just don't think the way to combat that is to lionize thugs and terrorists.

May your mother never run into the kind of people you support.

Are you on LSD?

 

[R.C. Christian]

The pentagram started giving them military surplus at discount prices since the the war on drugs and now the war on terror. To justify that cost, many cities do no knock SWAT raids for simple warrants often times to the wrong house. Their tactics are brutal and should be limited to the battlefield which is exactly where most of these PTSD raging thugs come from. Everybody wants to play soldier when they know there will be no repercussions.

Why don't you just come out & say it? Sunni Man

Say what, that you're the worlds largest douche?

 

[R.C. Christian]

Interesting read on the Militarization of our domestic Police Force.


Military-style units from government agencies are wreaking havoc on non-violent citizens.
By John Fund

Regardless of how people feel about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over his cattle’s grazing rights, 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.

They shouldn’t have been. Dozens of federal agencies now have Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams to further an expanding definition of their missions. It’s not controversial that the Secret Service and the Bureau of Prisons have them. But what about the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service? All of these have their own SWAT units and are part of a worrying trend towards the militarization of federal agencies — not to mention local police forces.

“Law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier,” journalist Radley Balko writes in his 2013 book Rise of the Warrior Cop. “The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop — armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.”

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.

Take the case of Kenneth Wright of Stockton, Calif., who was “visited” by a SWAT team from the U.S. Department of Education in June 2011. Agents battered down the door of his home at 6 a.m., dragged him outside in his boxer shorts, and handcuffed him as they put his three children (ages 3, 7, and 11) in a police car for two hours while they searched his home. The raid was allegedly intended to uncover information on Wright’s estranged wife, Michelle, who hadn’t been living with him and was suspected of college financial-aid fraud...

Read More:
The United States of SWAT? | National Review Online
DRUDGE REPORT 2014®

Do you have a parallel repugnance for right-wing militias and assassins killing police, robbing banks to finance the Aryan Nation, and killing anyone they think might be Jewish, black, or gay?

Does it bother you that a private non-profit must supply the government with information and statistics on violent domestic extremist groups and provide local police departments with information and training on organized cop killers?

Probably not. But then again you don't give a shit about people getting killed in Kansas City as long as your Skinhead white power Klan organizers exercise their second amendment rights to be terrorists.

Don't get me wrong. I am appalled by the militarization of police, believe that 99% of all SWAT teams should be disbanded, and think we have way too many rotten apples (albeit a small minority) in law enforcement who abuse their authority and belong in jail. I just don't think the way to combat that is to lionize thugs and terrorists.

May your mother never run into the kind of people you support.

Are you on LSD?

Crack more likely.

 

[francoHFW]

Thank you law and order Pubbies. You only complain about this under Dems because you complain about EVERYTHING under Dems lol...

 

[francoHFW]

Dems ALWAYS put in more oversight and limits on agencies like NSA and ATF, FBI and regular law enforcement, pseudo fascist shytteheads...

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Interesting read on the Militarization of our domestic Police Force.

Actually not, given the fact that domestic law enforcement isn’t being ‘militarized.’

Just more paranoid rightwing nonsense.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

so this is the talking point for sunday....neato!

Yet another pathetic and failed attempt by the right to contrive a ‘controversy’ where none exists.

 

[Dot Com]

paranoid lolibertarian fear-mongering so they can start their war

paulitician, 2ndAmendment, m15shooter, etc...

 

[Plasmaball]

so this is the talking point for sunday....neato!

Well it is a Message Board, no? Why do you come here if you don't want to read about what others think? Why are you here? Think about it for a bit.

I ate too much ham today

 

[paperview]

paranoid lolibertarian fear-mongering so they can start their war

paulitician, 2ndAmendment, m15shooter, etc...

lloll

 

[skookerasbil]

^ must be on drudge ALL rw'ers have drudge as one of their main homepage tabs.

^^ Parsons wanna-be!!!

After 3 decades, got back to reading 1984 recently. Fucking Parsons ^^ !!!

 

[paulitician]

Pretty sad many on this thread chose not to read the article. They immediately jumped right into their predictable partisan defense-mode. The article wasn't about Republican vs. Democrat. The Militarization of our domestic Police Force is a very disturbing trend. And both Political Parties are all-in on it at this point.

 

[KNB]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71FveedEmkg]Snot - Snooze Button - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Moonglow]

The United States Of SWAT?...

Why do you think they are called para-military???

 

[Dot Com]

if the clingers like m15shooter, 2ndamendment, & others weren't buying all the military-style, fire sticks, maybe SWAT wouldn't need to get all that over-the-top equipment. That ever occur to you OP? BTW- I served Wonder how many of the overt clingers on this board served?

 

[Spoonman]

what ever happened to the rw mantra (used when it was revealed that W & Gonzalez were wire-tapping) "if you're not doing anything wrong, what do you have to worry about"?

What ever happened to the extremely vocal left who took exception to bush and gonzales but now have gone silent and turn a blind eye to obama. Can you say total hypocrites? We sure can.

 

[Dot Com]

31,618??? WTF?!!! Did you buy rep from Admin?

 

[paulitician]

Snot - Snooze Button - YouTube

A very sad sign of the times. Too many Roided-up Jackbooters serving as Police Officers. The People are beginning to fear them. They're also beginning to hate them. It's a very serious problem. Thanks for the vid. It rocks. It's pretty disturbing, but some people need to see it.