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The Police-Industrial-Entertainment Complex
The Huffington Post | 12/02/2013 | Radley Balko

Posted on 12/03/2013 9:18:59 AM PST by stevie_d_64

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To: stevie_d_64

A commercial trying to sell viewers a gun is expected to take the time to distinguish between cops, soldiers and civilians? Why?


21 posted on 12/03/2013 12:11:40 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Army Air Corps

I agree but I don’t think a TV commercial trying to sell a product is supposed to be blamed for whatever. It was a silly addition to the article.


22 posted on 12/03/2013 12:13:05 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Ouderkirk

Police exist to protect and to serve the state. You are taxed for that protection. You pay for it. The solution is an obvious one: defund the police. They are the standing Army the founders feared.


23 posted on 12/03/2013 12:38:02 PM PST by RKBA Democrat ( There is no worst president but owebama, and valerie jarrett is his prophet.)
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To: stevie_d_64
This is misnamed. "Police-Industrial-Entertainment Complex" is just the same old Government-Corporate Complex previously known as Fascism.

I truly believe that most police are not interested in being part of the bigger complex, but may be forced into service for the complex as they will perceive it as their duty.

Entertainment is a slave to the larger corporations that own it. They report what they are told and create shows that promote the vision of the elite which is almost always that government is wonderful and people should not question anything, but be glad they are cared for and protected.

It boils down to the Military-Industrial Complex of which Eisenhower spoke. Don't forget that the military is part of the government. With Obama in office, the military is continually being politicized for its future use as a means of control over the American people. That doesn't mean those efforts will work, but they may.

Finally, both the Tea Party and the Occupy people are right, at least in part. The Government is the problem and the Corporations/Banks are the problem because they are one and the same. They currently work in such a seamless, synergistic fashion that they cannot honestly be considered as anything but one mechanism of total control.

24 posted on 12/03/2013 12:43:09 PM PST by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: RKBA Democrat

The increasing militarization, the increasing firepower, the refusal to face the very weapons they present to us when demanding our compliance.

The deification of these so-called “first responders” has gone beyond nauseating. They are not willing to “put it all on the line” to protect the very citizenry they are ostensibly supposed to serve. A shining example of this was the police who waited 1/4 mile away before attempting to enter Sandy Hook Elementary while those children died at the hands of a madman.

As you say, it is time to defund these police agencies, and sheriff’s deputies and the state police orgainizations. I was never of the opinioin that the brit were right about the “bobby’s” being unarmed except with a nightstick, yet it seems that it is the proper approach for them now.

The M-4’s the MRAPS, SWAT teams to serve warrants, has gone beyond the scope of police.

In most cases they are simply revenue enhancement officers.


25 posted on 12/03/2013 2:41:43 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: stevie_d_64

I had a discussion with a nephew who is a policeman here in Iowa. His dept was returning a lot of the weapons given to them because the regulations and paper work was too much.


26 posted on 12/03/2013 3:07:53 PM PST by PeterPrinciple
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To: Ouderkirk

I have little need or desire for police services. Until folks start showing up at budget meetings and demanding cuts, the situation will stay the same.


27 posted on 12/03/2013 3:38:01 PM PST by RKBA Democrat ( There is no worst president but owebama, and valerie jarrett is his prophet.)
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To: GeronL

A gun that may be of a configuration that is unlawful, per some state laws, to aquire, posess, operate by the evferyday citizery...

Unless you jump through the hoops, and make yourself a target for future scrutiny and audits at anytime they choose...


28 posted on 12/03/2013 7:36:21 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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Why do you think they recruit from the ranks of recently discharged combat veterans???

Some will bite at the chance to re-live the “jazz” they got when outside the wire...

That is what is filling up the ranks of these “police” SWAT units...They have the background, the mentality, and the skills to drive, and coordinate their response to any situation based upon the graphic military training and de-sensitizing which is indicative of those police forces, or what they want to eventually become...


29 posted on 12/03/2013 7:41:11 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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