theantimedia | Lurched back and forth in the ever-quickening spiral of an American
empire circling the drain, we — as a people — have chosen battle lines
on nearly every issue from politics to foreign policy, domestic
surveillance to policing.
Thrust back into national focus, the last issue — policing in the
U.S. — might even surpass in contention the ongoing race to the White
House. And it stands to reason, with the world lashing out against
failed globalism in its various nefarious incarnations — largely driven
by American exceptionalist military presence nearly everywhere on the
planet — the empire sees expediency in heading off a possible insurrection.
To that end, the past fifteen years have seen the
initially-surreptitious padding of law enforcement agencies with the
tools, gear, vehicles, and — most alarmingly — weapons of war. Because terrorism,
said the government, when its more apparent concern had to do with
potential dissidents who have grown tired of corruption and the almost
wholesale abandonment of constitutional and human rights.
Summoning the peculiar willful ignorance common in Americans’ worship
of authority in uniforms — found in the anachronistic hero cop avatar —militarization of police
slipped beneath the radars of most, who were instead pleased with the
added protection against nebulous terrorist threats in the interest of
the safety of the Boys in Blue.
That tacit permission allowed an occupying army to take root — complete with training
indistinct from that received by battlefield warriors set for
deployment overseas — though no person in a position of ‘authority’
would ever admit to as much. Neglecting vigilance of what amounts to
domestic mission creep, we’re reaping a civilian body count previously expected only from military missions.
Worse, the triplicate issues of refusal by police to rein in the Warrior Cop mentality;
the near impunity granted by judges and juries, even to the highest
courts in the land, when police kill without justification; and the
obstinance in Americans’ near infantile refusal to question this Blue
authority’s missteps, have cleaved a gulf of division effectually
insurmountable at this late date.
Now, those police cum victimizers — the apparent judges, juries, and
executioners of the unarmed, the innocent, and the guilty, alike — have
opportunistically employed a smattering of backlash attacks on members
of their cult of authority to declare war on the people they once swore
oaths to protect. False narrative of the oft-promulgated ‘war on cops,’ much less actual facts to the contrary, be damned.
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