The militarized USA domestic police was possible because of irresponsible military spending. The USA military is giving away armored vehicles. Giving them away. There should be a law stating, "While the USA military is not allowed to attack Americans domestically, that includes the distribution of military munitions and equipment to civilian law enforcement.
The defined responsibility of the USA military is a defense force. The USA military cannot attack citizens. That constitutional reality enters into the deaths of radicalized Americans no longer living in the USA. But, that isn't the point. The point is, "Why is it domestic police forces are militarized?" That is simply changing personnel. The programs providing military equipment to domestic police forces is unconstitutional.
August 19, 2014
By Amy Swanson
My hometown is an idyllic place, (click here) a sleepy town of 3,500 set among the cornfields of Story County, Iowa. When I recently drove through it on a hot summer day, the only noises were insects buzzing above cornfields, and distant splashes and screams of delight from the public pool. Kids still ride their bikes by themselves to the pool in the summer and carry their skates down to the pond in the winter. They dress up in little Scandinavian outfits and dance in the street at our yearly town festival....
It’s hard to imagine what kind of dystopian turn of events would have to occur in sleepy Story County in order to make use of such a vehicle. “We should be protected from anything that would be thrown against it,” Story County Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald commented about his MRAP, apparently without irony. He did not bring up its efficacy in the event of a zombie apocalypse. The police chief of Keene, a small town in New Hampshire, gave a similarly unimpressive explanation for his department’s purchase of a $286,000 BearCat armored personnel-carrier. He said it would be used to patrol Keene’s “Pumpkin Festival and other dangerous situations,” according to The Economist....
