Opposition to turning our police into paramilitary troopers looks like this: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/were-building-a-domestic-army-marine-corps-c

Opposition to turning our police into paramilitary troopers looks like this: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/were-building-a-domestic-army-marine-corps-colonel-before-concord-nh-town-council.html http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/were-building-a-domes... After a decade long (non-)war, the US government has a lot of surplus military-grade equipment they no longer need. By heavily discounting it through DHS grants, they are allowing small town american sheriffs to buy Fallujah-grade armored personel carriers. You know, for the teens smoking a joint and the two murders a year that happen in your 'burbs. That's what the marine corp colonel in the above video is speaking out against: > I saw a picture in the Boston Globe during the Marathon Bombing where there was a state police officer– Actually, there were two officers. They both had identical helmets, flak jackets, weapons, everything I wore in Iraq, only it was all blue. The officer on one side had a big patch on his back that said “MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE.” Another officer next to him, his patch said “BOSTON POLICE.” > And so what we’re doing here, and let’s not kid about it, we’re building a domestic army... Any decent person wants a police force. But when the police force starts to look and behave like paramilitary storm troopers, that's when you start asking if this is really the land of the free.