Police State America –Volume One
Chapter 1-The Rise of the Police State
Chapter 4 — Universal Public Surveillance
Chapter 5 — Other Surveillance
Chapter 6 — Searching for Anarchists, or Maybe Just Political Activists
Chapter 7 — Winning the Information War
Chapter 8 — Arbitrary and Unaccountable Law Enforcement
Chapter 9 — The Militarisation of the Police
Chapter 10 — Occupy Wall Street
Chapter 11 — Intimidating the Media & Subverting the Press
Chapter 12 — The Short Road: Democracy to Fascism
Chapter 13 — The Next American Revolution? Anticipated Civil
Police State America
Chapter 9 — The Militarisation of the Police
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The militarisation of America’s police forces is an alarming development that seems to have escaped the attention of the media. Many authors have noted the US now has a multitude of domestic police forces that look, think, and behave more like an invading and occupying military than a civilian body created to protect the public. The public is now the enemy of these paramilitary forces, with displays everywhere of military-style Robocops with devastating high-tech military equipment that includes armored vehicles and automatic weapons. This abundance of weaponry has resulted from a planned disposition of surplus war gear from the US military to local police forces. An article in the NYT by Matt Apuzzo reported that “according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft. The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units.” They also have $500,000 MRAP vehicles that are bullet-proof and meant to withstand explosives. The equipment is ostensibly to be used in “counter-terrorism operations” but the US has no domestic terrorism and the equipment is used only against the public – primarily to suppress public protests at the brutality of this same group.
That is an unfortunately accurate description of the US today.
In August of 2014, the US experienced one of the more egregious and unjustified killing of an unarmed black youth by a white police officer, resulting in a great deal of media attention and civil riots, looting and brutality. The photos from this event are particularly frightening, displaying evidence of US local police forces using armored vehicles, extensive high-tech military gear, snipers with their guns trained on the civil population, and much more. These events are becoming common in America, most cities having experienced these military assaults on innocent civilians, and almost always launched on peaceful demonstrations. Matthew Harwood wrote an article in the Huffington Post where he said, “Welcome to a new era of American policing, where cops increasingly see themselves as soldiers occupying enemy territory, often with the help of Uncle Sam’s armory, and where even nonviolent crimes are met with overwhelming force and brutality”, and where the police are virtually immune to accountability. That is an unfortunately accurate description of the US today.
Deterring domestic dissent is one of the primary aims of police militarisation.
Apuzzo again: “During the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011, the police response was so excessive, and so clearly modeled after battlefield tactics, that there was no doubt that deterring domestic dissent is one of the primary aims of police militarization. The reason the US has para-militarized its police forces is precisely to control this type of domestic unrest, and it’s simply impossible to imagine it’s not being deployed in full against a growing protest movement aimed at grossly and corruptly unequal resource distribution. Law enforcement officials and policy-makers in America know full well that serious protests – and more – are inevitable given the economic tumult and suffering the US has seen and will continue to see for the foreseeable future.”
11:50 p.m., Nov. 7, 2003. Spc. Charles Graner and Spc. Sabrina Harman with naked and hooded prisoners who were forced to form a human pyramid – a photo from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq which was a part of the evidence used against US soldiers accused of abusing and humiliating inmates. Source
What wasn’t widely noted in media reviews is that this militarisation of American police forces was not only part of an overall plan of civilian suppression, but that it is as much a process of Israeli-fication as miltarisation. After the planned attacks of 9-11, the Jewish lobby immediately exploited the hysteria to provide thousands of US police officials with all-expense paid trips to Israel for civil suppression training by Israeli military and intelligence officials, teaching American police the same tactics the Jews use in their widespread brutal military oppression of the Palestinians. Other Israeli military officials have travelled to the US to conduct this same military civil suppression training. Reports are that there are now few police officials of major American cities who have not participated in these free training trips to Israel. The same appears to be true for the philosophy and practice of torture. When the scandals broke about the American network of torture prisons, persistent reports emerged of Jewish ‘advisors’ having played a lead role in the creation and management of the torture prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, the Israeli Jews apparently guiding the Americans on various activities there.
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