The US's miltarized state

[alice wellintown]

The definition of police slides closer to soldier not only as the US
employs the tatics, equipemt, and the people, used in its foreign
wars, on the population at home, but also as it re-defines its wars as
peace keeping, nation building. so that the theater (at home) and the
theatre (over there) are spliced into the same projector.


It's all a "learing experience" for the Science/Technology Complex. As
long as They bomb schools over there, They learn, and are less likely
to drone our children to death over here. Well, not my
children....your poor children...well....poor children....

On 7/5/13, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> The most obvious obstacle to winning a Third Amendment claim here is that
> police arguably do not qualify as “soldiers.” On the other hand, as Radley
> Balko describes in his excellent new bookThe Rise of the Warrior Cop, many
> police departments are increasingly using military-style tactics and
> equipment, often including the aggressive use of force against innocent
> people who get in the way of their plans. If the plaintiffs’ complaint is
> accurate, this appears to be an example of that trend. In jurisdictions
> where the police have become increasingly militarized, perhaps the courts
> should treat them as “soldiers” for Third Amendment purposes.
>
> from a case. On Volokh Conspiracy blog, if more interested.