Visability is intimidation alone...Some people will take it as a positive in which they’ll exclaim, “LOOK!!! They are here to protect us!!! USA USA USA USA!!!”
For some it will be percieved that this is the new norm, and that when you see it again, it could be for real...For what, I have yet to see a justification for a public presense (like that) for any reason...
If the people manning these departments are full of combat veterans looking to re-kindle that “jazz” feeling they got when “outside the wire”...Those types of law enforcement we do not need on the streets, but somewhere, some people in your local governments think this will protect them and their jobs if they have forces like this that are just as good as the military...
At least on paper...
But for every example of when para-military law enforcement units like these are deployed, it is during a time when they government has lost control, and there is a convention of thought that somehow justifies their pre-planning to aquire equipment and personnel liike this to quell and subdue the easy populace...
Go back and look at how Boston handled their crisis...For two little twerps that quite a few agencies already had a line on in the first place...They just didn’t put all the dots together, and having the force to subdue an entire city in this country was more acceptable than applying preventative medicine to the sore...
How about how you cannot cop a squat in our nations capitol without garnering the attention of some geek-monkey monitoring a bank of camera feeds...But somehow a deranged mother suffering (how convienient) from PPD, who led that town on a short chase on those streets needed to killed by an increasingly violent tedeny driven police force...
The more you question the outcomes, the more it whittles away at the justification of such up-armored police forces in this country...
And we all wonder why the economy, and social condition of this country is in such disarray???
All it will take now is one serious incident and this entire country will come un-glued...
I would like to think we can handle that without reacting with a force like this who’s purpose is to not prevent, but to control the population...
And to do this at 3pm in rush hour traffic is to do so for only one reason...To desensitize you and many others to the fact that when it does blow up, you will not be allowed to do anything but follow orders, and if you refuse, you can be dealt with summarily...When they very well could be going after the “real” problem...
Interesting times we live in...
Frankly Scarlett, I got more of that ding ding feeling from 15 but they both apply.
“Go back and look at how Boston handled their crisis...For two little twerps that quite a few agencies already had a line on in the first place...They just didn’t put all the dots together, and having the force to subdue an entire city in this country was more acceptable than applying preventative medicine to the sore...”
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What did the Boston PD do——the chaos after the bombings was in Cambridge and Watertown?
What city was subdued? I live in that area and I wasn’t “subdued”.
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