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They are, and they are wrong. Unlike you, I don't think the fact that they get away with one means they should get away with the other.
I certainly don't think it is right, I just don't see this as some startling new development other than the MIC is now in the business of making the authorities afraid of the People in order to sell Barney Fyfe a bunch of military/urban combat hardware. The legal framework that allows for a security state has long been in place, all they needed was a market.
Never said it was startling, did I? I want to remove that framework and make police to be more like Sheriff Taylor than Rambo.
That's not going to happen, face it, fear based politics have brought things to this point and it does not look as if anyone is going to give up such a useful tool to get the general populace to give up privacy and freedom for the illusion of security. I have already noticed the tendency of certain people to see mass protests as an unAmerican commie problem that deserves an armed forceful response and rapid violent suppression.