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and wear special black uniforms, rather than the standard brown.

From Brownshirts to Blackshirts. That's a nice touch. Somehow I don't get the feeling they will be attending that class to learn about the Constitution as much as they will be learning how to get around it without scraping too much ink off of the old document.

Here's how I deal with the "special black uniforms" in my checkpoint chapter. The purpose of all black uniforms is to instill instant fear in cowed peasants, just as it was with the Gestapo and SS in Nazi Germany.

Another man walked up to their window. Martin Palmer could not tell if he was from the military or the police: he was dressed in black from his helmet to his boots, with no badge or insignia in sight. The man in black rapped on his driver’s side window with the steel muzzle tip of his black submachine gun. “Open up! Get out! Now!”

I posted a link to that chapter back around 47.

I don't think the police are Nazis. In fact I'm trying to become one. But let's face facts. These classes may on their face be about preserving the Const. rights of the individual but what they end up being is "how can I get to search this vehicle without having it thrown out by a judge".

It's the game played by both sides of the system. Defense Attorney's try to find every nook and cranny in the law to squeeze their clients through and Prosecutors and LEOs are trying any method that won't get them fired or their case tossed to get the goods on the suspects.

My comment on brownshirts to blackshirts is pertinent to conversations I've had with the other person I was replying to and I can understand how you could have taken it the way you did.

I, and some others on these boards, are concerned with the militarization of our Police Forces. The militarization of our P.F. is one of the things we don't like and it coincides with the LEOs moving from Peace Officers to strike teams that wear black uniforms and dress like ninjas.

We've gone from Prohibition to chasing guns to chasing drugs ad now we're back to chasing guns again it seems.

I don't think the Police are our enemy just that some of the trends in Police tactics that have worked well to safeguard LEO lives wouldn't be necessary if we had a different set of priorities.

p.s. I'm not some drug using hempphile who thinks the WOD is a war on the Constitution and everybody's rights to medical marijuana. I think some aspects of the WOD has lessened our freedoms and pose a threat to some other freedoms of our nation.