The founders understood that our Constitution would only work with a moral educated honourable people. We are loosing the battle on those grounds especially in the cities.
Here is a slightly different perspective from Tom, who I like. I have been reading his site for a while.
“Police Militarization Is More Than Tanks And Rifles: It’s A Cultural Disease- It’s acclimating the citizenry to life in a police state”
http://www.westernjournalism.com/militarization-is-more-than-tanks-and-rifles-its-a-cultural-disease/ … you will easily understand
This guy makes it sound like all cops wear camo, carry bayonets, grenade launchers and ride around masked in armored vehicles.
It’s not true. The vast majority ride around in patrol cars wearing a Sam Browne belt and a uniform.
I think you folks have got much bigger fish to fry with the state of politics in this country today. POTUS has ripped the Constitution to shreds and the spineless republican party has let him do it. On the military front Generals are bowing down to Obama’s demands to turn the military into The Bold and the Beautiful.
I agree with you that America will only work with a moral, honorable people. That battle was lost a long time ago.
Do you think the police are going to stop doing what they do because the government no longer provides them with used equipment?
The only thing they provided us with were used M16’s with worn out barrels, a few M14’s, and some binoculars.
The BDU’s I wore I bought myself. A pair of BDU pants cost about $30 bucks. A pair of my uniform pants cost double that and they aren’t made for hard use. Bayonets? Grenade launchers? We didn’t have any of that.
If need be the cops will do what they need to do in their everyday uniforms. While Zero fiddles and Rome burns.