This is just the beginning, people. Just the beginning.
Many have lamented the fact that the police have
become increasingly militarized. But an equally dangerous trend has been
occurring, the tendency for the military to act like police. True warriors
abide by the code of war; they may wound or kill their foe on the battlefield,
but they still can have respect for him as a fellow warrior. Police also have a
code, but I doubt they respect their foes. Who can have respect for a criminal,
except perhaps another criminal? And when soldiers start treating their enemies
as if they were mere criminals, when they start having the same mindset as the
police, the abuses of the street become the abuses of the battlefield; the
cruelty of our prisons becomes the cruelty of our stockades.
When the leadership (e.g., Donald Rumsfeld and John Brennan)
tells his soldier-cops to take off the gloves, you wind up with Abu Ghraib,
torture militia on the Pentagon's payroll, and drones that kill more children
than terrorists.
The chickens are coming home to roost, America. You didn't
give a shit when you tortured the Vietnamese, you didn't give a shit when you
tortured the El Salvadorans, you didn't give a shit when you tortured the
Iraqis, did you? And NOW you're going to give a shit when "your"
soldier-cops torture and kill American citizens on US soil?
What a sick joke this is all becoming.
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