Skillnaden mellan militär och polis på väg att suddas ut i USA och väst

Polisen här i väst blir alltmer militariserad och får ständigt ökade befogenheter och resurser trots att antalet brott inte ökar. Polisens expansion sker bl.a. eftersom alla numera kan va möjliga "terrorister" tack vare USA:s globala oändliga psykopatiska krig mot s.k. terror...
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Förr, när de ockuperade polisstaterna i det gamla Sovjetimperiet gjorde liknande omfördelning av övervakning och kontrollförtryck mot folket som väst gör idag, så var västlig media noga med att avslöja och kritisera dessa "avskyvärda polisstater..."

Media har under många år tyvärr varit en ekokammare år Pentagons & Israels intressen och skrämt upp den pinsamt  naiva flocken på beställning angående den rika internationella elitens affärsidé; "krig mot terror" (kryddad med ett antal effektfulla egna "false flags).

Media skulle heller aldrig på allvar avslöja och "opinionsbilda" att fallande flyglar, blixtnedslag och grillkycklingar - statistiskt sett är mycket farligare än terror för gemene man i väst...

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- The Guardian har i alla fall uppmärksammat att USA:s polis håller på att förvandlas till en militär insatsstyrka...
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Michael Shank and Elizabeth Beavers
The Guardian
Oct. 7, 2013

America’s streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, donated by the US Defense Department to the county sheriff.

Between the Armored Personnel Carriers locking down main streets in major American cities – mimicking our MRAPs in Afghanistan – or Special Weapons and Tactics (Swat) and Special Forces units canvassing our country, if we’re not careful, this militarization of our domestic policing will make-over America, and fast.

Here’s how it all happened. A little-known Pentagon program has been quietly militarizing American police forces for years. A total of $4.2bn worth of equipment has been distributed by the Defense Department to municipal law enforcement agencies, with a record $546m in 2012 alone.

In the fine print of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1997, the "1033 program" was born. It allows the Defense Department to donate surplus military equipment to local police forces.
Though the program's existed since the 1990s, it has expanded greatly in recent years, due, in part, to post-9/11 fears and sequestration budget cuts.

The expanse, however, seems unnecessary given that the Department of Homeland Security has already handed out $34bn in "terrorism grants" to local polices forces – without oversight mind you – to fund counter-terrorism efforts.

Additional militarization, then, deserves congressional attention as the program is harmful and must be scaled back for a number of reasons.

First, the program is transforming our police into a military. The results of such over-militarized law enforcement are apparent from the dispersion of Occupy protesters in Oakland to the city-wide lockdown in Boston. As retired police chief Norm Stamper stated to the Associated Press:

- We make a serious mistake, I'm convinced, in equipping domestic law enforcement, particularly in smaller, rural communities, with this much military equipment.

Tanks, grenade launchers, armored vehicles, and assault rifles are just a few of the items that have been transferred from military control to municipal police forces. Law enforcement agencies need only to arrange and pay for shipment in order to receive the items of their choice (pdf). 

One particularly egregious example is found in South Carolina, where Richland County's sheriff acquired a tank with 360-degree rotating machine gun turrets. Sardonically, the vehicle has been named "the Peacemaker".

Swat teams, furthermore, are no longer found only in large, high-crime areas. Instead, even small rural towns now have the equipment to arm their own paramilitary units. Investigative reporter Radley Balko estimates that around 150 Swat raids are performed every day in the United States.
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/07/militarization-local-police-america
http://www.infowars.com/americas-police-are-looking-more-and-more-like-the-military/

Svensk Militärutrustad Polis, Maskerad med Kpistar i ett Svenskt Bostadsområde...

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SWAT team shoots innocent man 22 times in front of his family (Jose Guerena, Tucscon 2011) 

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Publicerad den 20 sep 2013

TUCSON, AZ — A multi-million dollar settlement concludes the disturbing case of Jose Guerena, the Iraq veteran who was riddled with bullets in his own home during a faulty SWAT raid. Not only did these paramilitary police perform a haphazard assault on an innocent family's home, they prevented their victim's wounds from being treated after they shot him dozens of times. The hefty disbursement of tax dollars to the Guerena family may be warranted, but does nothing to reign in the aggressive department which is responsible for this murder, nor does it ensure the public that these inept Drug Warriors will not kill their family next.

http://www.policestateusa.com
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Bild: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1717.htm
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Skillnaden mellan militär och polis på väg att suddas ut i USA och väst