Police, even in small towns, were morphing into jack booted thugs before I left the USA. It may be a forerunner to nationalizing all police to enforce the new Marxist USSA.
>> I left the USA.
Really?
Are you calling our US Army reserves “jack booted thugs?”
Obama had proclaimed what he believed to be a need for a “civilian national security force”, to be as well funded and trained as the military forces. It seems like this plan is going forward well on schedule.
The US military cannot be used for enforcement of civil order within the United States, because of something called the Posse Comitatus act of 1878, which is still in effect. When soldiers are deployed to enforce civil order, they are National Guard units, state militia, ostensibly called up by the state governor of the particular state involved, but if the Guard units are nationalized, they must cease their efforts at maintaining law enforcement.
So an end run around both the Constitution and the intent of Amendment III of the bill of rights is in order, much like the private army that François Duvalier had instituted in Haiti.
The Tonton Macoutes were a Haitian paramilitary force created in 1959 and reporting directly to François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier until his death in 1971. ‘Papa Doc’ came to power in 1957, as a democratically elected leader on a populist platform. He had previously served as Minister of Health. After an attempted coup against him in 1958, Duvalier rewrote the Haitian constitution, making himself a ‘President for Life’. Believing the Army was planning to overthrow him (as they had previous leaders), he disbanded all law enforcement agencies in Haiti, including the army. He executed all high-ranking Generals. To keep law enforcement completely loyal to his own ruling family, he created the Tonton Macoutes, who were granted automatic amnesty through his powers for any crime they committed.
It only took Hitler about a year to place the local police and the town’s mayors and local governments under his national control.