Thursday, January 5, 2012

Tanks on Main Street: The Militarization of Local Police

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Arlington Texas PD has a drone now.
Absolutely NO experience with any kind of Aviation in the entire bunch.




Mr. Whitehead,

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves from tyranny in government."--Thomas Jefferson

Your article was timely and excellent. I too have recently become aware of police militarization even here in Tn. Not only that, but police all over the nation seem to be very quick to slam people down face first for the least provocation, handcuff for embarrassment, stop cars in the most conspicuous, dangerous places with multiple vehicle reinforcements for even a simple traffic violation, traffic traps for small town "open collar politicians" to enhance their revenues and power base.

We are seeing the strong arm of big government instilling fear in it's citizens...and there seems to be no shortage of strong arm bullies willing to help accomplish this endeavor.

Please help save America as we have known it in the past. We must rein in big government. Don't let up and please keep exposing these travesties.




To compare our local police to hitlers army (jackboots, occupying forces) is extremely insulting. I hope you never care about someone who was outgunned by some crackpot strung out on drugs that is killed in the line of duty because his .38 Police Revolver was all you felt he should carry. Body Armor, forget it. We don’t need to “dress them like soldiers”

I am ashamed that I subscribe to a Union Newspaper that carries john whitehead’s column!


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