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U.S. and Israeli Military Tactics Used Against American Citizens … Gazans Tweet Tips to Help AMERICANS On How to Handle Tear Gas


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U.S. and Israeli Military Tactics Used Against American Citizens … Gazans Tweet Tips to Help AMERICANS On How to Handle Tear Gas

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As you may have heard, police and Swat teams in Ferguson, Missouri have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at peaceful protesters, and outlawed peaceful assembly.

Police are also using stun grenades and ear-damaging military sound cannons against peaceful protesters.

Reporters are among those shot at with rubber bullets and tear gas, assaulted and arrested.  Glenn Greenwald notes:

Reporters have been told to turn off their cameras.  And a no-fly zone was established above Ferguson in order to keep news helicopters away.

Last night, two reporters, The Washington Post‘s Wesley Lowery and The Huffington Post‘s Ryan Reilly, were arrested and assaulted while working from a McDonald’s in Ferguson. The arrests were arbitrary and abusive, and received substantial attention — only because of their prominent platforms, not, as they both quickly pointed out upon being released, because there was anything unusual about this police behavior.

 

Reilly, on Facebook, recounted how he was arrested by “a Saint Louis County police officer in full riot gear, who refused to identify himself despite my repeated requests, purposefully banged my head against the window on the way out and sarcastically apologized.” He wrote: ”I’m fine. But if this is the way these officers treat a white reporter working on a laptop who moved a little too slowly for their liking, I can’t imagine how horribly they treat others.”

A state senator was teargassed along with protesters.

Congressman Amash tweets:

And:

Images & reports out of #Ferguson are frightening. Is this a war zone or a US city? Gov’t escalates tensions w/military equipment & tactics.

If you want to visually see how extreme the reaction of police is in Ferguson, compare what’s going on in Ferguson to what’s happening in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan (or scroll through this page of pictures.)

Someone identifying himself as an 82nd Airborne Army veteran, observing the Ferguson police scene, comment[ed] that “We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone” …

What’s really going on? And how did we get here?

We explained in 2011:

Journalists from across the spectrum have documented the militarization of police forces in the United States, including,
,
, the
,
, the
,
,
,
,
and many others.

 

Many police departments laugh at and harass Americans who exercise their right to free speech. Here’s one example of police laughing at a civil rights lawyer after she was shot in the head with a rubber bullet:
 

 

Indeed – especially since police brutality against protesters has been
in recent months, while
– many Americans believe that
….

 

Some are comparing police brutality towards the Occupy protesters to that used by
. Indeed,
, and received training from Israeli anti-terrorism experts visiting the U.S. See
,
,
,
,
.

Indeed, the Ferguson police chief received training in crowd control in Israel in 2011.

And Gaza residents are literally tweeting info on how to handle tear gas to help Ferguson citizens.

Even the mainstream media is picking up on the militarized police.  USA Today headlines, “Pentagon fueled Ferguson confrontation“.  And Newsweek runs with, “How America’s Police Became an Army.”

But they’re still blaming 9/11 as the reason for the militarization of the police.  As we explained in 2011, that’s not accurate:

Indeed:

Most assume that the militarization of police started after 9/11. Certainly, **** Cheney initiated Continuity of Government Plans on September 11th that ended America’s constitutional form of government (at least for some undetermined period of time.) On that same day, a national state of emergency was declared … and that state of emergency has continuously been in effect up to today.

 

But the militarization of police actually started long before 9/11 … in the 1980s.

 

Radley Balko testified before the House Subcommittee on Crime in 2007:

(And see this.)

Militarization [of police forces is] a troubling trend that’s been on the rise in America’s police departments over the last 25 years.

 

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Since the late 1980s, Mr. Chairman, thanks to acts passed by the U.S. Congress, millions of pieces of surplus military equipment have been given to local police departments across the country.

 

We’re not talking just about computers and office equipment. Military-grade semi-automatic weapons, armored personnel vehicles, tanks, helicopters, airplanes, and all manner of other equipment designed for use on the battlefield is now being used on American streets, against American citizens.

 

Academic criminologists credit these transfers with the dramatic rise in paramilitary SWAT teams over the last quarter century.

 

SWAT teams were originally designed to be used in violent, emergency situations like hostage takings, acts of terrorism, or bank robberies. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, that’s primarily how they were used, and they performed marvelously.

 

But beginning in the early 1980s, they’ve been increasingly used for routine warrant service in drug cases and other nonviolent crimes. And thanks to the Pentagon transfer programs, there are now a lot more of them.

Huffington Post notes:

And Jamie Douglas notes:

Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper published an essay arguing that the current epidemic of police brutality is a reflection of the militarization (his word, not mine) of our urban police forces, the result of years of the “war on drugs” and the “war on terror. Stamper was chief of police during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, and is not a voice that can be easily dismissed.

Ever since Ronald Reagan in 1981 helped draw up the Military Cooperation With Law Enforcement Act, quickly passed by a very cooperative congress, effectively circumventing the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 by codifying military cooperation with law enforcement, the military has been encouraged to give any and all law enforcement agencies unfettered access to all military resources, training and hardware included. The military equipment was designed to be used by American fighting forces in combat with “the enemy,”
but since a law was passed in 1994, the Pentagon has been able to donate all surplus war materiel to America’s police departments. The National Journal has compiled a number of statistics showing that in the first three years after the 1994 law came into effect, the “Department of Offense” stocked police departments with 3800 M-16 assault rifles, 2185 M-14’s, 73 grenade launchers, and 112 armored personnel carriers, as well as untold number of bayonets, tanks, helicopters, and even some airplanes.

 

Regardless who will be in power in the future, the militarization of the police will continue.
After all, who wants to appear as being soft on crime? These days, a chief of police’s office is like a doctor’s office, but instead of getting swamped with drug salesmen, they have very congenial visits with the merchants of popular oppression, the salesmen of weapons, various chemical agents,
Tasers, body armor, and all kinds of tracking software, surveillance gear, and anything else the department may need for crowd control and to infiltrate dissidents, which are no more than US citizens wanting to restore the republic to its rightful place.

The government treats copyright infringers as terrorists, and swat teams have been deployed against them. See
,
,
and
.

 

***

 

It’s not just intellectual property.  The government is widely using
to help giant businesses … and to
, labeling anyone who speaks out as a
.

Remember:

As Greenwald writes:

Ultimately, police militarization is part of a broader and truly dangerous trend: the
from foreign war zones onto American soil. American surveillance drones went from Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia
, and it’s impossible to imagine that they won’t be followed by weaponized ones. The inhumane and oppressive conditions that prevailed at Guantanamo are matched, or exceeded, by the super-max hellholes and “Communications Management Units”
. And the “collect-it-all” mentality that drives NSA domestic surveillance was
 and by
, aimed at enemy war populations.

 

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As part of
, Americans have been trained to believe that everything is justified on the “battlefield” (
): imprisonment without charges, kidnapping, torture, even
. It is not hard to predict the results of importing this battlefield mentality onto American soil, aimed at American citizens: “From Warfighter to Crimefighter.” The results have been clear for those who have looked – or those who have been subject to this – for years. The events in Ferguson are, finally, forcing all Americans to watch the outcome of this process.

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Give me a break!

American's are trained to think? LOL

 

Ferguson, Missouri was (my opinion) one police officer who made a huge mistake & should be tried for his crime.

Do not try to judge all police officer's by his actions!

 

99% of the police officers I have ever met were good people doing a difficult job!

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What is their "difficult" job? deciding to murder a young man with slugs to his back or front? They are very well-PAID and volunteered for this "tough" work. Too hard to make a decision about killing someone in cold-blood?? Maybe you need to look for another job.

Sorry, those idiots are trained to make decisions in the heat of the moment (as I was before being armed and put into a LE situation) and use just enough force as necessary according to the situation at hand.

90% good cops??? Give me a break! more like 10-20% are good Joes (back when I was in, I would say 80-90% were good guys). The rest are uniformed scumbags who get their jollies from abusing the excessive power they shouldnt be given in the first place. Hope the whole country goes ape from this event.

dunno, just saying........Just us

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What is their "difficult" job? deciding to murder a young man with slugs to his back or front? They are very well-PAID and volunteered for this "tough" work. Too hard to make a decision about killing someone in cold-blood?? Maybe you need to look for another job.

Sorry, those idiots are trained to make decisions in the heat of the moment (as I was before being armed and put into a LE situation) and use just enough force as necessary according to the situation at hand.

90% good cops??? Give me a break! more like 10-20% are good Joes (back when I was in, I would say 80-90% were good guys). The rest are uniformed scumbags who get their jollies from abusing the excessive power they shouldnt be given in the first place. Hope the whole country goes ape from this event.

dunno, just saying........Just us

Well dang nab it Bert - ya'll better hunker down at the farm till this whole thing blows over then!  LOL

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Gas, gas, gas........Holding your breath, and speaking your name, rank and serial number, while fighting back the urge to blow snot bubbles was a tactic they taught us in basic training.   :salute: 

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Hahahaha. Remember the gas chamber in Marine boot camp. I cheated! I drew in a huge breath, took off my mask and very calmly gave them my name, rank and service number-out the door I went. Must have been 2nd or 3rd. Fun watching those enormous boogers/snot cannons running all over the other recruit's faces. Wow! Getting all teary eyed now....must be the CS from MO...

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Hahahaha. Remember the gas chamber in Marine boot camp. I cheated! I drew in a huge breath, took off my mask and very calmly gave them my name, rank and service number-out the door I went. Must have been 2nd or 3rd. Fun watching those enormous boogers/snot cannons running all over the other recruit's faces. Wow! Getting all teary eyed now....must be the CS from MO...

 

Right on, Brother.  I had a bad@ss D.I. that was so accustomed to CS....He would stand maskless in that room barking orders and smoke a camel non-filter at the same time.   :eyebrows: 

 

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Right on, Brother.  I had a bad@ss D.I. that was so accustomed to CS....He would stand maskless in that room barking orders and smoke a camel non-filter at the same time.   :eyebrows: 

 

GO RV, and NO BV

I think I may have had that D.I.s brother as my Drill Sergeant at Fort Sill, OK!  Same thing - no mask - barking out orders -

 

Ah...the chamber - such fond memories...Enter the chamber 10 at a time!  - form a line - 20 Side Straddle Hops (Jumping Jacks to the non-military) - Masks off - Name, Rank, SSN - (Don;t you puke in my chamber!!!! - Use your helmet!!) - Left face - Out the door - arms out - "keep walking!!!!" - exceptionally long greeners running out the nose - running into trees because you can't see - Ah - such fond memories.

 

The one that got me - after we were done - they form the company in a horse shoe formation so they could talk to us, explaining how we should now have confidence in our MOPP gear.  As they are talking, I hear a soft "pop, pop, pop" to my 6 - and 3 CS grenades roll into the formation...

 

Long story short - I got masked, got my helmet on, looked up - and there was only about 30 of us out of the company - about 80 other Joes running around screaming.  First Sergeant walks up to me, says "Start picking up those weapons, (scattered all over the ground) - so we can see who get's a second round in the chamber...." 

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