It isn't just SWAT cops:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3415442.html
This bullshit - and the for-profit prison industry - are a greater threat to your freedom than any drone.
Key quote:
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"Want to make money on the drug war? Start a company that builds military equipment, then sell that gear to local police departments. Thanks to the generation-long trend toward more militarized police forces, there's now massive and growing market for private companies to outfit your neighborhood cops with gear that's more appropriate for a battlefield."
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We need to de-criminalize most drugs. And we need to release all non-violent drug inmates. Put the prison industry out of business and take the money we save on incarceration and use it on drug treatment.
And get rid of all the macho cop combat teams.
Except for very limited circumstances, this has no place in free society:
I suspect that the above photo was taken during the Boston Bomber manhunt, but even THAT was a massive over-reaction to TWO nutjobs.
