“Today, the SWAT team is largely sold to the American public by way of the media, through reality TV shows such as Cops, Armed and Famous, and Police Women of Broward County, and by politicians well-versed in promising greater security in exchange for the government being given greater freedom to operate as it sees fit outside the framework of the Constitution. Having watered down the Fourth Amendment’s strong prohibitions intended to keep police in check and functioning as peacekeepers, we now find ourselves in the unenviable position of having militarized standing armies enforcing the law.”
Related posts:
The Fantasy of Debt: No Trade-Offs, No Sacrifices
Warren Buffett: How inflation swindles the equity investor [1977]
Should You Invest in the Marijuana Boom?
Paul Craig Roberts: Why War Is Inevitable
Ron Paul and the Future - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Ron Paul: Private Property Is the Essence of Liberty
Detlev Schlichter: “Watching your money disappear” – Speech to senior representatives of the UK pens...
David Galland: I'm from the Government, I'm Here to Bend You Over
The NSA and Its “Compliance Problems”
Living the Lockdown Life
2.7 Million Children Under the Age of 18 Have a Parent in Prison or Jail
The Fed's Asset-Inflation Machine
CITIZEN SAFETY ALERT: You Have The Right To Go Home To Your Family Too
Profits and Asset Bubbles Everywhere?
Egypt, Syria - it's just the end of them