Thursday, September 25, 2008

Pro Libertate: Rubicon in the Rear-View, Part I: Militarizing the Police

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. Garet Garrett, The Revolution Was (1938)


The future of law enforcement: The 193rd Military Police Battalion, Colorado National Guard, trains at Ft. Carson last July 12 in preparation for deployment as part of JTF-DNC -- the military component of security arrangements for the Democratic Convention in Denver.

The seamless integration of the military and law enforcement into a single "Internal Security Force" is the defining characteristic of a fully realized police state. Once this fusion is accomplished, the question becomes not "whether" a police state exists, but rather how acute its institutional violence against the subject population will become.


That condition now exists in the country that still calls itself -- without any apparent irony -- the United States of America.

Pro Libertate: Rubicon in the Rear-View, Part I: Militarizing the Police

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