The Growing Police State

NSFW:1400%. Wow.

News crew tear gassed and their equipment dismantled.What’s interesting and creepy (to me as a blogger) is that as real journalists are harrassed and intimidated and arrested by the Glorious Democratic Police Army of Ferguson, the reportage depends on private citizen with cellphone, Twitter and Youtube. The problem is that a lot of this is…

…protect the living daylights out of reporters and journalists who were typing very, very dangerously When our police state decides you are allowed to know what they are doing, selected State Information Agents will be permitted to repeat what they are told. Go back to your TV and shopping. Nothing to see here. Move along.

…than to the police state of Ferguson, MO, where a cop shot an unarmed kid eight times.  He is on the customary Severe Vacation with Pay.  We aren’t allowed to know his name.

Historians looking back at this period in America’s development will consider it to be profoundly odd that at the exact moment when violent crime hit a 50-year low, the nation’s police departments began to gear up as if the country were expecting invasion — and, on occasion, to behave as if one were underway. The…

Our militarized police kill another citizen enemy who was sleeping on his couch.

I trust they will receive the customary Severe Vacation with Pay.

…increasingly selects for cops that act like the ones in this story as it readies itself for when the consequences of its folly and corruption are felt on a wide scale by the people it regards as subjects and not fellow citizens. Put your trust in God, not in princes.

I hope her parents get a gazillion dollars in lawsuit money from the state for this.

to protect the living daylights out of people: SWAT throws flash grenade into crib, severely burning child Less than two days after this, the DA cleared the task force of any wrongdoing, despite not having had time to investigate anything. When they shot an innocent pastor to death five years ago, the same DA also…