With a new executive order, President Obama created a “working group” including the attorney general and the secretaries of Defense, Homeland Security, Interior, and Treasury, to review the ongoing militarization of civilian police forces across the US.
The group will aim to standardize the Pentagon’s 1033 program, through which it gives surplus military gear to police departments, nominally for the “war on drugs.”
The use of military equipment against civilians in public protests, as in Ferguson, Missouri last year, has drawn new attention to the program, and the review will be carried out with an eye toward deciding which equipment is appropriate to give police, and what training they need on civil liberties if they’re going to have such weaponry.
MRAPs and another armored vehicles have become an increasingly common site when police decide to go out “in force” against public dissent, and some Congressmen have been trying to get legislation introduced to keep armored vehicles and high-caliber rifles, along with grenade launchers, out of the hands of police, since these were clearly never intended to be “crowd control” device as they are being deployed.
As with other government programs, 1033 has considerable momentum behind it, and a lot of police departments are keen to be given military hand-me-downs, even if they are of no conceivable legal utility in ordinary policing, and will likely fight any serious attempts to reform the program.
Why not just end the program? I much refer my country the way it used to be. It was far from perfect but far better than it is now.
Crowd control — For police a brand new game
And most profound it is, that only in crowd control does law enforcement come in contact with the voting majority, namely those who hoard all the wealth, specifically the educated upper half of society.
For never do laboring-class people ever protest against anything as it never does any good. For not so fool are the poor as to waste time voting for our next set of dictators.
And as all of law enforcement is of the upper half of society, as so criminal is the upper half in the way they conspire to steal the half of our nation’s wealth that should instead trickle down to the uneducated and impoverished lower half, to properly manage such a crime all of law enforcement spends 95% of their time establishing a police state for laboring men.
Guess what, yesterday a report was announced that shows how 51% of kids in public school are getting food stamps and eligible for the free lunch program. How gracious a bunch of hypocrites they are, for first they make sure that the lower half adults get a poverty minimum wage, then to keep the lower half kids from starving to death they give them a little free food.