The Origins Of Barry's Paramilitary Police

Here's a discomforting thought:

The most significant outcome of the series of meetings with cabinet officials, police officers and “civil rights” leaders organized by the Obama administration on Monday was the president’s rejection of any measures to rein in the militarization of local police forces.

The meetings were held to provide the appearance of sympathy for popular anger over the failure to bring charges against the Ferguson, Missouri police officer who shot and killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown last August. But the reality was the opposite of the rhetoric.

A White House review of programs for transferring military equipment to the police concluded: “These programs, in the main, have been valuable and have provided state and local law enforcement with needed assistance as they carry out their critical missions in helping to keep the American people safe.” The review, ordered in the aftermath of the police crackdown against peaceful Ferguson protesters in August, was released on Monday.

Obama made clear that there would be no reduction in funding for the Defense Department’s 1033 Program, whose motto is “from warfighter to crimefighter,” or any of the other federal programs that have facilitated the arming of local law enforcement with over $4.3 billion in assault rifles, armored vehicles, and even military aircraft.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/12/03/pers-d03.html

Where do you suppose these ideas of his came from? Or are they his ideas at all?

In 2006 Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed published a book entitled The Plan: Big Ideas For America. One of the "big ideas" was this:

We must protect the homeland and our civil liberties by creating a new domestic counterterrorism force like Britain's MI5.

Considering the facts that the US now has the ability and authority to spy on each and every one of its citizens and that our police are now tied into that spy network and armed to the teeth, I think this particular "big idea" has more or less come to fruition.

Whether or not it has protected the homeland and our civil liberties is another question. I would say that it has not.