Local cops have been becoming militarized for some time, but since the 9/11 attacks, many police departments now look like battlefield ready forces. They are in many cases, even in small towns, equipped with military style assault rifles, armor, including Kevlar helmets, armored trucks with rotating gun turrets, and in some cases tanks.
In this story today from the Daily Beast titled, “Local Cops Ready for War with Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons,” it is obvious that this anti-civil liberty ramp up of the police is being orchestrated by the federal government, in particular, the abhorrent Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Just in the past ten years, there has been over $34 billion dollars of federal grants sent to local police departments for the purchase of military weaponry. This spending is slated to dramatically increase over the next few years. This is always done in the name of protecting us from terrorism, but the only way we can be protected from terrorism is to disarm the agents of force of this government, even the local police.
Some sheriff’s departments now even have pilotless drones supplied by the feds. Other police departments have $180,000 bomb disarming robots, full combat gear, expensive tactical vests, and more.
There can be only one reason for this audacious display of power by local police, and that is as preparation for domestic war due to civil unrest and active dissent. That would mean a police state environment with probable Martial Law. This is an untenable situation, and it is spiraling out of control right before our eyes.
The new mission for police nationwide is not to protect citizens, but to control them by any means necessary. Given that police these days get full immunity from their aggressive and in some cases, murderous activities, and that they are now being armed to the teeth with military weaponry, the risk to us citizens is gargantuan. It is a risk that can only have horrible consequences, and one that can only end in terror. Not terror from so-called enemies from afar, but homegrown terror from those state thugs supported by DHS and the rest of this government!