There’s at least one line every Marine knows: “Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.” The St. Louis County Police Department apparently never received that memo.…
One small way to measure the police violence against black people in Ferguson is to attend to its details. It is in that spirit that I present this simple catalog.…
Everything but the price list. Is this another aspect of military Keynesianism to feed the defense industry?
This is not only police militarization but also domestic militarization under the coordination of the Department of Homeland Security, the first "ministry of the interior" aka institutionalized secret police that has been permitted in the US.
The Nation
A Former Marine Explains All the Weapons of War Being Used by Police in Ferguson
Lyle Jeremy Rubin
I believe Orwell called it the Ministry of Love.
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