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The Spectacle Blog
At CFIF, I discuss a superb, and chilling, column by Deroy Murdock on the frightening misuse of SWAT teams nationwide. Dogs killed, for no good reason. People killed by mistake. Tiny children frightened nearly to death — and, in one case, made to lie down for hours next to their dead dog, all after a raid on the wrong house. Is it any wonder that people fear our government? Is it any wonder that people want guns of their own? Please, please read this column. And if you are a local official, please reconsider how you constitute and use SWAT teams, and consider the possibility that you might not really need a SWAT team at all.
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aware| 2.13.13 @ 2:12PM
For once I agree. But I don't think you understand the real reason for the proliferation of SWAT squads. It is to get you used to seeing armored vehicles, heavily armed paramilitary, and helicopters in your own backyard. To blur the line.
What about the military "drills" in Miami and other cities lately? Why the order for 4.5 billion rounds by Fatherland "Security"? Why the NDAA? The deployment of drones? The attitude of "beatdown" prevalent in police forces? Did Obama really impose a kill citizens test for advancement in the military? And why do Republicans go along with all this? Rumors of FEMA camps?
Do the minions of the State know something? Why the (possible)false flags of Sandy Hook and rogue cop rampage and the gun control push heating up at this time?
Is there a pattern forming?
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 2.13.13 @ 10:29PM
I agree completely. The militarization of our police forces and the misuse and abuse of SWAT teams brings me thoughts about Red Coats or jackbooted Nazi thugs indeed many people fled the Soviet Union to be free of the police state and now we are creating one here. Every free born American citizen should own a firearm and know how to use it. Then the government and its agents would think twice about trampling on the Constitution. It is we the People who are protectors of the Constitution not the government.
N8tivTxn| 2.14.13 @ 12:08AM
This sort of thing is no joke. DHS is training these local jackbooted buffoons to disassociate from We the People of their own communities.
Wonder WHY?
I have been accused of being an anarchist, for voicing skepticism in the "oathkeeper" silliness.
When law enforcement disarmed those who stayed behind in NOLA, post Katrina, I could read the handwriting on the wall.
In any societal/ infrastructure breakdown, don't expect to have protection other than what you can provide.
This incident is nauseating. Imagine what would have happened if the folks in the targeted house had been well armed and ready to defend themselves?
aware| 2.14.13 @ 5:49AM
Anarchism is the only moral conclusion in politics because the Wine of Babylon has been the addiction of every nation since Nimrod.
Bob K| 2.14.13 @ 12:34AM
This is not new,witness Ruby Ridge.
http://www.cato.org/publicatio.....ruby-ridge
And the Waco Siege.
And there always seems to be some highly regarded Republican Prosecutor like Louis Freeh who will take over the job of figuring out what went wrong and then deliver a whitewash on behalf of the government.
Bob K| 2.14.13 @ 12:40AM
Read the comment in that link from a DblOJ official that is Randy Weaver had sued the Government in Idaho he probably would have gotten $200,000,000.00.
That is how hated these out of control paramilitary agencies are.
Bob K| 2.14.13 @ 12:41AM
Make that DOJ Official...
AllAmericanAmerican| 2.14.13 @ 9:52AM
My dad was a cop in a dirty, old, large NE city from the early 70s to the early 90s. his duty uni was black slacks with the blue stripe, blue button-down shirt with tie, nametag, and badge, and the "bus-driver" hat. You know, the basic "Officer Friendly" look.
Shortly after he retired I noticed the trend of local police away from the "Officer Friendly" look to the paramilitary look. Blue fatigues, combat boots, no visible badge, and ballcap. Along those same lines a new attitude was birthed, as when you dress like a wannabe-Rambo sometimes you end up acting like him.
Frog in Uniform | 2.14.13 @ 3:34PM
I see the same pattern emerging in Frogland too whereas the populace is almost totally disarmed and brainwashed against guns of any kind.
While it's still possible, download this:
(http://www.zjstech.net/~ddixson/Unintended_Consequences:pdf)
replacing the : with a dot
In my work as an instructor for a Frog SWAT unit, having to deal also with lesser units, I'm witnessing the militarization of previously poorly trained or armed low level police units with emphasis on tactics and weaponry that doesn't seem to address the purpose of those units.
Most of those people were not as thoroughly screened and checked and this worries me a lot. It seems to be a worldwide trend when you consider the amount of would be SWAT teams being created.