The cost of America’s police state
Hundreds of billions have been spent to militarize our nation against a terrorism threat that barely exists
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/05/the_cost_of_americas_police_state/singleton/
I don’t have much to offer that I haven’t already but thought in the interests of trying to ignite a tiny flame of revulsion that might lead to rebellion, I offer this quote as a means to tease you into reading the whole article…
Why, for instance, are New York cops traveling to Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and Newark, N.J., to spy on ordinary Muslim citizens, who have nothing to do with New York and are not suspected of doing anything? For what conceivable purpose does Tampa want an eight-ton armored vehicle? Why do Texas sheriffs north of Houston believe one drone — or a dozen, for that matter — will make Montgomery County a better place? What manner of thinking conjures up a future that requires such hardware? We have entered a dark world that demands an inescapable battery of closed-circuit, networked video cameras trained on ordinary citizens strolling Michigan Avenue.
