If anyone watches “Bill Maher” (Friday evenings in the East):
A few weeks ago, he ended his show about the military hardware and weaponry local police departments are buying. Even some small mid-west town with a population of about 8,000 purchased a army surplus 8-wheeled armoured vehicle! More and more small towns are buying serious weapons and vehicles and riot gear, in towns that never even had a riot. (Large, urban cities, yes: they need them.) He showed photos of small-town policemen in armoured vests, sheilds and heavy automatic weapons, and asked, is this where we really want to go? Isn’t this what the Tea Party rails against?Where is the protest?
He ended with two pictures, one of two armoured, helmeted police shock officers, and the second of Sheriff Taylor and Barney, and asked, “Who do you want patrolling your town?”
If anyone watches “Bill Maher” (Friday evenings in the East):
A few weeks ago, he ended his show about the military hardware and weaponry local police departments are buying. Even some small mid-west town with a population of about 8,000 purchased a army surplus 8-wheeled armoured vehicle! More and more small towns are buying serious weapons and vehicles and riot gear, in towns that never even had a riot. (Large, urban cities, yes: they need them.) He showed photos of small-town policemen in armoured vests, sheilds and heavy automatic weapons, and asked, is this where we really want to go? Isn’t this what the Tea Party rails against?Where is the protest?
He ended with two pictures, one of two armoured, helmeted police shock officers, and the second of Sheriff Taylor and Barney, and asked, “Who do you want patrolling your town?”