Agreed, I'm even uncomfortable with the way national guard units like SF and LRS are used by drug task forces across the country. These are specially trained military professionals, not cops and shouldn't be used as such.
To be honest I'm very uncomfortable with the entire state of law enforcement in this country. The militarization of the police can be seen even in the smallest and most crime free of towns. There is often a very palpable us vs them air when dealing with law enforcement even on a routine matter. The courts have expanded probable cause so that the fact that you're breathing gives them the ability to search you, no knock warrants are causing problems all over the place, police departments like that in PG county Maryland routinely kill people, animals and destroy private property only to find out that no crime was being committed. Don't even get me started on the things federal law enforcement get away with, especially ATF and DEA. Not to mention the FBI routinely using illegal wiretaps. ugh Adam Churvis wrote: >> There *should* be big fat heavy duty walls between domestic law >> enforcement >> and international intelligence. The mixing of law enforcement and >> intelligence activities and the military is one of the scariest >> products of >> the "war on terror". > > Amen! > > Respectfully, > > Adam Phillip Churvis > President > Productivity Enhancement > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269575 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
