Originally Posted by Poodleshooter
Police militarization and federalization is an symptom enabler of a larger problem. The police are simply equipping themselves heavily to make the job they're tasked with as easy as possible. The real problem is the proliferation of freedom crushing laws and expansive police budgets that the modern busybody American people (tacitly) and their elected representatives (directly) have approved. Without those laws and funding, and the busybody [bleep] voters who enable them, we wouldn't have MRAPs on street corners.
My wish is that everyone who says "there oughta be a law" would choke themselves.


I agree fully, with the above few changes.

The police are big, intrusive, and abusive government's fingers at our throat choking the life and liberty out of us.

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"Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy." ~ Orson Welles