Let Your Life Be a Counter-Friction to Stop the Machine
I believe that we are coming to a crossroads as a nation. Since 9/11, we’ve been traveling down a road bristling with guns, military technology, paranoia and fear. Though most of our aggressive energy has been aimed outside our borders, there has also been a steady preparation for mass violence within the U.S. as well.
In the decade since 9/11, our national police forces have been armed with military hardware, and have trained extensively in riot control, with the results that we saw for the first time during the recent Occupy protests.
... Billions of federal tax dollars have been spent nationwide on this kind of military hardware for police, in the name of Homeland Security. Security from what? Security for whom? Short of an all-out military invasion by a foreign force, which seems hugely unlikely, these weapons can only be meant to confront an insurgency within our own borders.
Are we thinking about a civil war, then?
Are these police being armed and trained to protect the interests of the 1% against the raging anger of the 99%? (Photo ©Saint Huck.)
