21-11-2011, 07:27 PM
We have seen the slow but inexorable militarization of the local police starting back in the Reagan era under LEAA funds, all well-tracked and documented (much of it already here), with ties to FEMA, emergency management, COG, etc etc. Back then, it was set up to block riots in the streets coming from either racial tensions or war/anti-war (more Hegelian nonsense). And we have a situation that is easily five to ten times worse in terms of surveillance, and the tehcn-nification of suppression. Much of the weaponry of war has been brought to the streets of America to be used to insure the status quo. How long before the UAV's and the real robots are in use?
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"