Domestic SWAT Teams

Here is a history of SWAT, militarized police, and Special Forces by S. Brian Willson:

“The bald fact is that today’s cop in body armor with assault weapons, grenades, and tanks is not there to make arrests of suspected criminals. He is there in anticipation of protests to beat down the public for exercising constitutional rights. To suppress public protests is also the purpose of the Department of Homeland Security Police, a federal para-military police force that is a new development for the United States. No one in their right mind could possibly think that the vast militarized police have been created because of 'the terrorist threat.' Terrorists are so rare that the FBI has to round up demented people and talk them into a plot so that the 'terrorist threat' can be kept alive in the public’s mind.”

There is no substitute for assuring social and economic justice as the basic foundation for peace and tranquility. None. We either choose to a commitment to fairness for everyone, or we all lose, a principle articulated by Martin Luther King, Jr:, “An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

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